Kanokrat Lertchoosakul is a lecturer at the Department of Government, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Her research interests are social movements and comparative politics. She is the author of various works on contemporary social movements and Thai politics including The Rise of the Octobrists in Contemporary Thailand: Power and Conflict Among Former Left-Wing Student Activists in Thai Politics, (New Heaven: Yale Southeast Asia Studies Monograph), ‘The Paradox of the Thai Middle Class in Democratisation’ in TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, and ‘The white ribbon movement: high school students in the 2020 Thai youth protests’ in Critical Asian Studies.