Associate Professor Patrick Jory
Associate Professor in Southeast Asian History
+61 7 336 56355
Room E350, Forgan Smith Building (1)
Latest Publications
Manners have long been a central concern of Thai society. Kings, aristocrats, prime ministers, monks, army generals, politicians, poets, novelists, 
ournalists and teachers have produced a large corpus of literature that sets out models of appropriate behaviour. These include such things as how to stand, walk, sit, pay homage, prostrate oneself in the presence of high-status people, sleep, eat, manage bodily functions, dress, pay respect to superiors, deal with inferiors, socialize, and play. These modes of conduct have been taught or enforced by families, monasteries, court society, and, in the twentieth century, the state, through the education system, the bureaucracy, and the mass media. In this innovative new social history, based on Thai manners and etiquette manuals dating from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, Patrick Jory presents the first ever history of manners in Thailand and challenges the idea of Western influence as the determinant of change in ideals of conduct.
Researcher biography
Qualifications
1988 - BA Hons (First Class), University of Western Australia
1998 - PhD (Southeast Asian History), Australian National University
Employment History
1995 - 2001: Department of Asian Studies, University of Western Australia
2001 - 2009: Regional Studies Program (Southeast Asia), Walailak University, Thailand
2011- : School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland
Edited volumes
Patrick Jory, ed., The Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand: Essays on the History and Historiography of Patani (Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2013).
Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad and Patrick Jory, eds., Islamic Thought in Southeast Asia: New Interpretations and Movements (Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 2013).
Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad and Patrick Jory, eds., Islamic Studies and Islamic Education in Contemporary Southeast Asia (Kuala Lumpur: Yayasan Ilmuwan: 2011).
Michael J. Montesano and Patrick Jory, eds., Thai South and Malay North: Ethnic Interactions on a Plural Peninsula (Singapore: NUS Press, 2008).
Patrick Jory and Jirawat Saengthong, eds., Poet lok thurakit rang nok saen lan [Bird’s Nests: Secrets of a Billion Dollar Business] Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand Research Fund; Regional Studies Program, Walailak University, 2007 [in Thai].
Publications
Books
Jory, Patrick (2021). A history of manners and civility in Thailand. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108868006
Jory, Patrick (2020). ทฤษฎีกษัตริย์โพธิสัตว์: เวสสันดรชาดกในประวัติศาสตร์ไทย แปลจากหนังสือ. Bangkok, Thailand: Illuminations Editions.
Jory, Patrick (2016). Thailand's theory of monarchy: the Vessantara Jataka and the idea of the perfect man. Albany, United States: State University of New York Press.
Book Chapters
Jory, Patrick (2015). Republicanism in Thai History. A Sarong for Clio: Essays on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Thailand. (pp. 97-117) edited by Maurizio Peleggi. Ithaca, NY United States: Cornell University Press.
Jory, Patrick (2014). Karl Popper and Thailand's political crisis: the monarchy as the problem for an 'open society'. The Open Society and its Enemies in East Asia: The Relevance of the Popperian Framework. (pp. 49-66) edited by Gregory C. G. Moore. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315816784
Jory, Patrick (2013). Introduction: ghosts of the past in Southern Thailand. Ghosts of the past in Southern Thailand: essays on the history and historiography of Patani. (pp. xiv-xxix) Singapore, Republic of Singapore: NUS Press.
Jory, Patrick and Bustamam-Ahmad, Kamaruzzaman (2013). Preface. Islamic thought in Southeast Asia : new interpretations and movements. (pp. xiii-xx) edited by Patrick Jory and Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: University of Malaya Press.
Jory, Patrick (2011). Thai historical writing. The Oxford history of historical writing. Volume 5: 1945 to the present. (pp. 539-558) edited by Axel Schneider and Daniel Woolf. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780199225996.003.0027
Jory, Patrick and McVey, Ruth (2010). Thailand: Recent history. The Far East and Australasia 2010. (pp. 1190-1210) edited by Lynn Daniel. London, U.K: Europa Publications.
Jory, Patrick (2009). Thailand : History. The Far East and Australasia 2009. (pp. 1190-1213) edited by Lynn Daniel. London: Routledege.
Jory, Patrick (2008). Luang Pho Thuat and the integration of patani. Thai South and Malay North : Ethnic interactions on a plural peninsula. (pp. 292-303) edited by Michael J. Montesano and Patrick Jory. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press.
Jory, Patrick (2007). Thailand : History. The Far East and Australasia 2008. (pp. 1183-1208) edited by Lynn Daniel. London: Europa.
Jory, Patrick (2006). Thailand : History. The Far East and Australasia 2007. (pp. 1152-1174) edited by Lynn Daniel. London: Routledge.
Jory, Patrick (2005). On the Phetchaburi version of the Mahachat. Pen and sail : Literature and history in early Bangkok including the history of Bangkok in the chronicles of Ayutthaya. (pp. 201-226) edited by Chris Baker and Ben Anderson. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books.
Jory, Patrick (2005). Thailand: History. The Far East and Australasia 2006. (pp. 1145-1165) London: Europa.
Jory, Patrick (2004). Thailand : History. The Far East and Australasia 2005. (pp. 1095-1113) London: Europa Publications.
Jory, Patrick (1998). Damrong Rajanubhab, Prince (1862-1943): Thai Prince and Historian. A Global Encyclopaedia of Historical writing. (pp. 221-221) edited by D. R.Woolf, Kathryn M. Brammall, Greg Bak and Peter Burke. New York, NY, United States: Garland.
Jory, Patrick (1998). Thiphakorawong, Chaophraya (19th Century Thai Chronicler). A global encyclopedia of historical writing. (pp. 884-884) edited by D.R. Woolf. New York, NY, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Journal Articles
Jory, Patrick (2022). State Building in Mainland Southeast Asia: A Brief Modern History. Mekong Connect, 4 (2) 1, 8-11.
Jory, Patrick (2021). Uneasy military encounters: the imperial politics of counterinsurgency in southern Thailand. South East Asia Research, 29 (4), 545-549. doi: 10.1080/0967828x.2021.1997493
Jory, Patrick (2021). Asia's Great Survivors. History Today, 71 (7), 40-53.
Jory, Patrick (2021). Siam as a ‘tributary state’ of imperial China and the age of empire. History Australia, 18 (2), 1-20. doi: 10.1080/14490854.2021.1916968
Jory, Patrick (2020). Evolution of mainland southeast Asian studies over the last 20 years. Asian Currents 2020 Reviewing Asian Studies, Asian studies, Southeast Asia
Jory, Patrick and Saengthong, Jirawat (2019). The roots of conservative radicalism in southern Thailand’s Buddhist heartland. Critical Asian Studies, 52 (1), 1-22. doi: 10.1080/14672715.2019.1702888
Jory, Patrick (2019). Review of Read Till It Shatters: Nationalism and Identity in Modern Thai Literature. By Thak Chaloemtiarana. Canberra: ANU Press, 2018. Sojourn, 34 (3), 637-640. doi: 10.1355/sj34-3k
Jory, Patrick (2019). Explaining a Thai royal’s aborted electoral debut. East Asia Forum, 1-4.
Jory, Patrick (2018). Somsak Jeamteerasakul as I Know Him. Thammasat Journal of History, 5 (2), 17-24.
Jory, Patrick (2018). Bupphesanniwat fever: gendered nationalism and middle-class views of Thailand's political predicament. Sojourn-Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 33 (2), 440-456. doi: 10.1355/sj33-2p
Jory, Patrick (2017). The palace law of Ayutthaya and the Thammasat: law and kingship in Siam. Sojourn-Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 32 (3), 742-744. doi: 10.1355/sj32-3g
Jory, Patrick (2017). Enter the dragon: Thailand gets closer to China. The Interpreter
Jory, Patrick (2017). The Lost Territories: Thailand's history of national humiliation by Shane Strate. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 18 (1) doi: 10.1353/cch.2017.0015
Jory, Patrick (2017). Thailand's Hyper-Royalism: Its Past Success and Present Predicament by Thongchai Winichakul. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 90 (2), 149-152. doi: 10.1353/ras.2017.0031
Jory, Patrick (2016). Thailand’s year of living dangerously. The Interpreter
Jory, Patrick (2016). The real meaning of Thailand’s constitutional referendum. Asian Currents
Jory, Patrick (2016). Thailand's Hidden Republican Tradition. New Mandala
Jory, Patrick (2016). Exploration and irony in studies of Siam over forty years. Bijdragen Tot De Taal- Land- En Volkenkunde, 172 (1), 118-119. doi: 10.1163/22134379-17201006
Jory, Patrick (2015). Thailand’s politics of politeness: Qualities of a Gentleman and the making of ‘Thai manners'. South East Asia Research, 23 (3), 357-375. doi: 10.5367/sear.2015.0271
Jory, Patrick (2015). Review of Visiting the neighbours: Australians in Asia. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 61 (1), 148-149.
Jory, Patrick (2014). Understanding Thailand's monarchy problem. IPI Global Observatory
Jory, Patrick (2014). Understanding Thailand’s Monarchy Problem. Global Observatory
Jory, Patrick (2014). Thailand has entered the interregnum. ISEAS Perspective (54), 1-8.
Jory, Patrick (2014). The spirit of things: materiality and religious diversity in Southeast Asia. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 45 (3), 447-449. doi: 10.1017/S0022463414000381
Jory, Patrick (2014). China is a big winner from Thailand’s coup. East Asia Forum
Jory, Patrick (2013). Australia's Asia: from Yellow Peril to Asian Century. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 59 (3), 482-483. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12028
Jory, Patrick (2013). Islam, education and reform in southern Thailand: tradition and transformation. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 14 (3), 284-286. doi: 10.1080/14442213.2013.787908
Jory, Patrick (2013). The authority of influence: women and power in Burmese history. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 59 (1), 154-155.
Jory, Patrick (2013). Buddhist fury: religion and violence in southern Thailand. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 44 (1), 190-192. doi: 10.1017/S0022463412000781
Jory, Patrick (2013). The lovelorn ghost and the magical monk: practicing Buddhism in modern Thailand. Journal of Religion, 93 (1), 126-127. doi: 10.1086/669848
Jory, Patrick (2012). The US ‘pivot to Asia’ and the political crisis in Thailand. East Asia Forum
Jory, Patrick (2012). "Karl Popper and Thailand's Political Crisis: the monarchy as the problem for an 'open society'" [IN THAI]. Ān: wārasān rāi sāmdư̄an phưa kānʻān, 4 (1), 154-167.
Jory, Patrick (2012). Mapping Thai Muslims. Community dynamics and change on the Andaman Coast. Anthropos, 107 (1), 231-232.
Jory, Patrick (2012). Thailand's constitutional reform in changing times. East Asia Forum Quarterly, In Press.
Jory, Patrick (2011). Problems of modernity in Patani and Thailand: The emergence of "the people" in Patani's past and present. รุไบยาต : วารสารวิชาการด้านเอเชียศึกษา, 2 (3), 35-48.
Jory, Patrick (2011). The crisis of the Thai Monarchy. East Asia Forum Quarterly, 3 (4), 13-14.
Jory, Patrick (2011). A New History of Southeast Asia (review). Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 84 (2), 122-126. doi: 10.1353/ras.2011.0015
Jory, Patrick (2010). Songkhram prawatisatniphon thai: Kan tor su khong sathaban kasat nai prawatisat samai mai. Fa Dio Kan, 8 (1), 100-124.
Jory, Patrick (2010). Some remarks on the current state and possible future of Southeast Asian Studies. JATI - Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010, 27-33.
Jory, Patrick (2009). The rise and fall of empires and the case for Liberal Imperialism. Kyoto Review of South East Asia (11), 1-7.
Jory, Patrick (2009). Pattani nai rup lor luang pho thuat. Ratthasātsān, 30 (Supp. A4), 424-472.
Jory, Patrick (2008). Parithat nangsu: Wa duai khwam rung rueang – lom salai khong jakrawat lae panha wa duai jakrawatniyomseri. Aan [Read], 1 (3), 174-187.
Jory, Patrick (2007). From Melayu Patani to Thai Muslim: the spectre of ethnic identity in southern Thailand. South East Asia Research, 15 (2), 255-279. doi: 10.5367/000000007781509535
Jory, Patrick (2007). Thailand A history of Thailand, By Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. P. 301. Maps, Charts, Illustrations, Glossary, Chronology, Notes, Glossary of Names, Readings, Index. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 38 (02), 404-405. doi: 10.1017/s0022463407000161
Jory, Patrick (2006). Jak melayu patani su muslim: Phap lon haeng atalak thang chatiphan nai phak tai khong Thai. Fah Diew Kan, 4 (2), 154-165.
Chou, Cynthia and Jory, Patrick (2006). Voices of Islam in Europe and Southeast Asia. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 23 (1), 142-144.
Jory, Patrick (2006). From “Patani Melayi” to “Thai Muslim. ISIM Review, 18, 42-43.
Jory, Patrick (2003). Problems in contemporary Thai nationalist historiography. Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia (2)
Jory, Patrick (2002). Barami and the Vessantara Jataka: the origin and spread of a premodern Thai concept of power. Crossroads: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 16 (2), 36-78.
Jory, Patrick (2002). Thai and Western Buddhist scholarship in the age of colonialism: King Chulalongkorn redefines the Jatakas. Journal of Asian Studies, 61 (3), 891-918. doi: 10.2307/3096350
Jory, Patrick (2001). The king and us: representations of monarchy in Thailand and the case of ‘Anna and the King’. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 4 (2), 201-218. doi: 10.1177/136787790100400204
Jory, Patrick (2000). Multiculturalism in Thailand. Harvard Asia-Pacific Review, 4 (1), 18-22.
Jory, Patrick (2000). Books and the nation: the making of Thailand’s National Library. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 31 (2), 351-373. doi: 10.1017/s0022463400017598
Jory, Patrick (1999). Political decentralisation and the resurgence of regional identities in Thailand. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 34 (4), 337-352.
Jory, Patrick (1999). Thai identity, globalisation, and advertising culture. Asian Studies Review, 23 (4), 461-487. doi: 10.1111/1467-8403.00059
Conference Papers
Jory, Patrick (2019). Thailand’s civilizing process. Global Interdependencies: Norbert Elias Conference Brussels 2018, Brussels, Belgium, 5-8 December 2019. Brussels, Belgium: Université Saint-Louis.
Jory, Patrick (2019). Debates about the “Gentleperson” (phu di)
in mid-Twentieth Century Siam. Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Denver, CO, United States, 21-24 March 2019. Denver, Colorado: Association of Asian Studies.
Jory, Patrick (2014). Republicanism in Thai history. 12th International Conference on Thai Studies, Camperdown, NSW, Australia, 22-24 April, 2014.
Newspaper Articles
Jory, Patrick (2023, 07 30). Thailand’s emerging new political alignment East Asia Forum
Jory, Patrick (2016, 12 08). Thailand’s lèse majesté across borders East Asia Forum
Jory, Patrick (2016, 12 02). Thailand’s future under King Rama X: lessons from three Asian countries The Conversation
Jory, Patrick (2016, 10 24). Thailand’s year of living dangerously
Jory, Patrick (2016, 08 21). The real meaning of Thailand’s constitutional referendum East Asia Forum
Jory, Patrick (2016, 07 26). Thailand’s constitutional referendum is in a royal mess East Asia Forum
Jory, Patrick (2015, 06 06). Thailand haunted by the ghost of absolutism
Jory, Patrick (2014, 10 08). An ailing king and succession intrigue put coup leaders on edge The Conversation
Jory, Patrick and Montesano, Michael J. (2011, 06 01). End the Gag on Thailand's Citizens The Wall Street Journal
Jory, Patrick (1998, 01 01). Southeast Asia’s Götterdämmerung The Asia-Pacific Magazine 12-15.