About Janjira Sombatpoonsiri

Janjira Sombatpoonsiri is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, and a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). Her research focuses on democratic resilience, civil resistance, protest movements, civic space and digital repression, particularly in Southeast Asia. She leads the Asian component of the Southern-Led Approaches to Democratic Resilience project and has published widely on pro-democracy movements and authoritarian responses to dissent. She is the author of Humor and Nonviolent Struggle in Serbia and the forthcoming A Thousand Cuts: Digital Repression and Pro-Democracy Movements in Thailand.

NBN Episodes hosted by Janjira:

The Democracy Exchange: Asia Asks, Latin America Responds

October 12, 2026

The Democracy Exchange

Jennifer Cyr

What can democracies in different parts of the Global South learn from one another - and what can democracies in the Global North learn from them? The…