Chua B.S.Mahidol University2025-10-172025-10-172025-01-01Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Southeast Asia (2025) , 341-351https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/112624This paper examines how human rights concepts in Thailand evolve through social movements’ construction of rights. In particular, it analyses how traditional Thai values of citizenship and subjecthood were significantly challenged by human rights ideas brought to Thai public discussion through youth-led pro-democracy movements of the early 2020s. Youth have both made demands based on human rights and democratic principles and invited the Thai public to engage in redesigning forms of social relationships, based on ideas of equality and sovereign power of the people.Social SciencesArts and HumanitiesBook ChapterSCOPUS10.4324/9781003413813-322-s2.0-105018286950