Teerasan Boontham
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
- Green Parties
- Environmental Issues
- Right-wing Populist Parties
- Climate Backlash
Biography
Teerasan is a PhD student in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. His research interests centre on right-wing populism and anti-environmentalism. He holds two master's degrees with distinction: one in Diplomacy and Global Politics from the University of Westminster, where his dissertation examined the strategic roles of Nordic small states; Norway, Denmark, and Iceland; in Arctic geopolitics; and another in Political Science and Quantitative Methods from the University of Essex, focusing on greenwashing practices among fossil-fuel producers and the influence of democratic institutions on their carbon-intensive industries. Prior to his postgraduate studies, Teerasan contributed to a research project under Chiang Mai University's Life Long Education initiative in Thailand and worked as a screenwriter for an inclusivity-focused documentary in Chiang Mai
Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree: International Affairs Chiang Mai University (2020)
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Master's degree: Diplomacy and Global Politics University of Westminster (2023)
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Master's degree: Political Science and Quantitative Methods University of Essex (2024)
Research and professional activities
Thesis
How do anti-environmental positions diffuse across right-wing populist parties?
The paper investigates how anti-environmental positions diffuse across right-wing populist parties (RWPPs), arguing that climate scepticism and resistance to environmental regulation spread through conditional, ideological selective learning. Drawing on policy diffusion theory, I conceptualise anti-environmentalism not as an epiphenomenal correlate of right-wing populism, but as a strategic resource that parties adopt when foreign RWPPs demonstrate that 'greenlash' against ambitious climate poli
Supervisor: Dr. Zorzeta Bakaki , Professor Carolina Garriga