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Appendix 1: Fieldwork Timeline Time date Description of activities Locations 15 - 21 Feb 2014 - Solitary walks around residential and commercial areas in Ayutthaya - Walked around to ge

Appendix 1: Fieldwork Timeline

Time (date) Description of activities Locations

15 - 21 Feb

2014

- Solitary walks around residential and commercial areas in Ayutthaya

- Walked around to get to know people and for people to know me

- Established contacts at the Historical Parks Office, Wat Mongkhon Bophit and Ayutthaya Hospital

- Tried to establish contact with the Department of Disasters and Mitigation (DDPM) (unsuccessful)

- Preliminary site observation

- Kept in touch with some potential participants via Facebook

- Long Law

- Soi Si

- Ayutthaya Hospital

- Historical Park Office

- Wat Mongkhon Bophit (temple)

- Market near Wat Mongkhon Bophit

4 - 20 April

2014

- Met paa Toola at Long Law, she

brought us around Ayutthaya on her boat; she introduces us to Hua Ro,

we decided to visit Hua Ro

- Solitary walks in Hua Ro, established some contacts in Hua

Ro

- Accompanied walks with 12 participants around Ayutthaya (Long Law, Soi Si, Wat Mongkhon Bophit)

- Interviews with 2 souvenir vendors in their shops (post cards of the flood)

- Interview with the Deputy Director and Public Relations Manager of Ayutthaya Hospital

- Tried to establish contact with the DDPM (again, unsuccessful)

- P’Pat introduced us to P’Samlit (Journalist)

- Walk-turned-Interview with P’Samlit;

P’Samlit gave us his book

- Established contacts in Wat Senasanaram Ratworawihan and Wat Suwandaram Ratworawihan

- Long Law

- Soi Si

- Hua Ro

- Ayutthaya Hospital Wat Senasanaram

- Wat Suwandaram

- Market near Wat Mongkhon Bophit

- Remained in contact with some participants via Facebook

11 - 30 May

2014

- Accompanied walks with 18 participants (Soi Si, Hua Ro, Long Law, Wat Senasanaram, Wat Suwandaram)

- Interview with a ‘cultural academic’

from the Historical Park Office

- P’Samlit introduced us to Khun

Gonggun – the local politician/read estate developer

- Interview/dinner with Khun Gonggun, P’Samlit and their families

at Ayutthaya Riverside Hotel

- Attempted to contact the DDPM office again, was again

unsuccessful

- Long Law

- Soi Si

- Hua Ro

- Wat Senasanaram

- Wat Suwandaram

- Historical Parks Office

- Ayutthaya Riverside Hotel

Appendix 2: Participant information

2A: Participants breakdown

(Total number of participants: 43)

Accompanied walks (everyday life) 30 (refer to 2B)

Temple workers (including monks) (Interview) 4

Actors from institutions (Historical Parks Office,

Ayutthaya Hospital) (Interview)

4

Misc (Ex-MP and Journalist) (Interview) 2

2B: Occupation, age and gender of walking participants

(Names altered in accordance to NUS IRB requirements)

Noey Part time work at Wat Mongkhon Bophit 38 Female

Taeng Part time masseuse 61 Female

Pichit Shop owner (hardware and plastic ware) 52 Male

Ngoen

Structural engineer with the municipal

Ratana

University lecturer at Rajabhat Phra Nakhon

Appendix 3a

Wat Mahathat towards the end of the 2011 flood as the waters subsided Note the mud-line above the head of the bodhisattva Variations of this image became one of the key icons of the 2011 flood in Thailand

(https://500px.com/photo/3211899/after-ayutthaya-flood-by-taradol-chitmanchaitham)

Appendix 3b

This image of partially-submerged Honda cars in the industrial park at Rojana in Ayutthaya is also another icon of the 2011 flood

(http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/10/19/business/industries-relocation-to-thailand-undone-by-historic-floods/#.VLyedcZ97zI)

Appendix 4

We saw the flood line in almost every home we visited – some people even painted the flood lines (above), and others constantly point them out to us (below)

Appendix 5a

Loong Pichit added a second and third storey to his original single-storey home Note

the blue-painted wooden extension (left) Furthermore, the water tanks in his home were also propped up to the height of the 2011 flood (right)

Paa Sao’s wooden home on stilts was built in the 1920s – she has started modifying it

since the 2011 flood Near the white parts of the home is an extended platform where they can get on and off a boat easily in case of another flood

Appendix 5b

Since the flood, loong Akhom converted the first storey of his house into a storage area

where unimportant and dispensable objects are stored The electronics – such as the washing machine – and the family’s kitchen have since been moved upstairs He remarked that it was as though they have converted their home into a traditional Thai house