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Harrison, Rachel and Helgesen, Geir (2019) 'Inviting Differences: An Ideal Vision for Area Studies?'. South East Asia Research, (27) 1, pp 3-13.
Harrison, Rachel (2017) 'Dystopia as Liberation: Disturbing Femininities in Contemporary Thailand'. Feminist Review, (116) 1, pp 64-83.
Morement, Helen and Harrison, Rachel and Taylor-Robinson, Simon (2017) 'The multidisciplinary team meeting in the UK from the patients’ perspective: comments and observations from cholangiocarcinoma patients and their families'. International Journal of General Medicine, (2017) 10, pp 305-310.
Asavarut, Pallad and Norsworthy, Peter J. and Cook, Joanna and Taylor-Robinson, Simon D. and Harrison, Rachel (2016) 'Diet and disease: transgressing boundaries between science and society - Understanding neglected diseases through the lens of cultural studies and anthropology'. Journal of Medical Humanities, (42) 3, pp 181-183.
Harrison, Rachel (2007) '“Somewhere Over the Rainbow”: Global Projections/Local Allusions in ‘Tears of the Black Tiger’/Fa thalai jone'. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, (8) 2, pp 194-210.
Harrison, Rachel (2005) 'Cultures of criticism, constructions of femininity and the impossibilities of female desire'. South East Asia Research, (13) 1, pp 91-111.
Harrison, Rachel (2005) 'Introduction: New Directions in Thai Cultural Studies'. South East Asia Research, (13 (1)).
Harrison, Rachel (2005) 'Amazing Thai Film: The Rise and Rise of Contemporary Thai Cinema on the International Screen'. Asian Affairs, (36) 3, pp 321-338.
Harrison, Rachel (2004) 'Introduction: The Human World of south East Asian Literatures'. Tenggara, (47) 8, pp 1-7.
Harrison, Rachel (2004) 'Wild Roses and Urban Boring Bees: (Western) Feminist Readings of a Thai Feminine Text?'. Tenggara, (47/48), pp 93-115.
Harrison, Rachel (2002) ''A Hundred Loves', 'A Thousand Lovers': Portrayals of Sexuality in the Work of Thidaa Bunnaak'. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, (33) 3, pp 451-470.
Harrison, Rachel (2000) 'The disruption of female desire and the Thai literary tradition of eroticism, religion and aesthetics'. Tenggara, (41), pp 88-125.
Harrison, Rachel (2000) 'Looking forward, Looking back: towards a comparative study of the interaction between the traditional and modern in contemporary SEA [and] Sita Writes Back: Reinventing the Ramayana'. Tenggara, (42).
Harrison, Rachel (1999) 'The Son of a Javanese'. South East Asia Research, (7, par), pp 141-188.
Harrison, Rachel (1995) 'The Writer, the Horseshoe Crab, His ‘Golden Blossom’ and Her Clients: Tales of Prostitution in Contemporary Thai Short Stories'. South East Asia Research, (3) 2, pp 125-152.
Harrison, Rachel, (ed.), (2014) Disturbing Conventions: Decentering Thai Literary Cultures. London and New York: Rowman and Littlefield International.
Harrison, Rachel and Jackson, Peter, (eds.), (2010) The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
Harrison, Rachel and Jackson, Peter, (eds.), (2009) Siamese Modernities and the Colonial West. Southeast Asia Research Vol. 17 No. 3.. London: Sage Publications.
Feangfu, Janit and Harrison, Rachel (2018) 'Contested modernities and spectres of progress in twentieth century Siam/Thailand'. In: Protchsky, Susie, (ed.), Modern Times. Leiden: Brill; KITLV, pp 166-190.
Harrison, Rachel (2010) '‘The Man with the Golden Gauntlets: Mit Chaibancha’s Insi thorng and the Confusion of Red and Yellow Perils in Thai Cold War Action Cinema''. In: Day, Tony and Liem, Maya, (eds.), Cultures at War: The Cold War and the Arts in Southeast Asia.. Ithaca, New York: SEAP Cornell University Press.
Harrison, Rachel (2009) '“Elementary, My Dear Wat”: Influence and Imitation in the Early Crime Fiction of “Late-Victorian” Siam'. In: Jedamski, Doris, (ed.), Chewing over the West: occidental narratives in non-Western readings. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Harrison, Rachel (2004) 'Sex in a Hot Climate: Moral Degeneracy and Erotic Excess in The Story of Jan Daraa'. In: Worton, M. and Wilson-Tagoe, N., (eds.), National Healths. Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context.. London: UCL Press, pp 121-136.
Harrison, Rachel (2003) 'Thailande: Between East and West'. In: Zaini-Lajoubert, M and Bernot, Denise, (eds.), États et littérature en Asie : l'émergence des États modernes (XIXe - XXe siècles). Paris: Les Indes Savantes, pp 154-184.
Harrison, Rachel (2003) 'Facing Demons: Sida Marries Totsakan in Sidaoreuang's Modern Thai Reinventions of the Epic Ramayana (Ramakien)'. In: Labarthe, J., (ed.), Formes modernes de la poésie épique. Nouvelles approches. Bruxelles ; New York: P.I.E. - Peter Lang, pp 339-369.
Harrison, Rachel (2001) 'Prostitution, Politics and Power: Issues of "Foreigness" in Western television documentaries of female sex workers'. In: Munshi, S, (ed.), Images of the 'Modern' Woman in Asia. London: Curzon (London), pp 138-68.
Harrison, Rachel (2001) 'The Indigenous and the "Foreign": the Reception, Adaptation and Reinvention of Western Literatures in South East Asia'. In: Detrie, M, (ed.), France-Asie: un siecle d'échanges litteraires. Paris: You Feng, pp 240-254.
Harrison, Rachel (1999) 'The Madonna and the Whore: Self/Other tensions in the characterization of the prostitute by Thai female authors'. In: P, eds, (ed.), Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand. Silkworm (Chiang mai), pp 168-190.
Harrison, Rachel (1997) 'The “Good”, the “Bad” and the Pregnant: Why the Thai Prostitute as Literary Heroine Can’t be Seen to Give Birth'. In: Somswasdi, Virada and Theobald, Sally, (eds.), Women, Gender Relations and Development in Thai Society. Chiangmai: Women’s Studies Centre, Chiangmai University Press, pp 323-348.
Harrison, Rachel (1995) 'Birth, Death and Identity in the Writing of Sidaoru’ang from 1975-90'. In: Chitakasem, Manas, (ed.), Thai Literary Traditions. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press, pp 87-117.
Harrison, Rachel and Sinnot, Megan and Fuhrmann, Arnika (2018) 'SOJOURN Symposium on Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema'. SOJOURN, (33) 1, pp 181-201.
Harrison, Rachel (2018) 'Exit, Exile, Exodus: Culture at the Margins in Southeast Asia'.
Harrison, Rachel (2002) 'Sidaoruang', vol. 8.
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