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117061
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2012.
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It is the contention of this paper that, because North Eastern villagers or their urban-dwelling close relatives from North East Thailand have become workers in a global system of labour, they have come to understand their place within Thailand as what the author terms 'cosmopolitan villagers' rather than as traditional rice farmers. Even as this transformation has taken place, representations of 'rural' North East Thailand that urban Thai encounter in TV programmes, films, fiction and the media have remained predicated on the assumptions that 'villagers' still live lives that are primarily agrarian and that they have inadequate or misguided understandings of the larger world. It is this disjunction between the 'rural' that cosmopolitan North Easterners actually identify with and the 'rural' that Thai urban middle-class people imagine to exist that helps explain why consensus on Thai politics broke down. The actual villagers constitute the base of support for populist movements that in contemporary Thailand have mobilized to make their voices heard not only through demonstrations, but also more significantly through electoral politics.
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155715
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This article explores domestic volunteer tourism in Thailand and how it relates to moral politics and recent political struggles. Volunteer tourism typically entails middle class Thais, who reside in the country's capital or other urban cities, traveling to remote villages to perform volunteering activities. Through an ethnographic account, the article shows how these trips provide an opportunity for volunteers to experience and embody the ideals associated with the notion of the ‘volunteer spirit’ and how volunteer tourist trips tend to reproduce the kind of subjectivity and power relations that help to preserve, rather than challenge, the political status quo. In particular, the article highlights the ways in which popular volunteer discourse and practice correlate closely with the politics of ‘good people’ (khon di), which promotes ‘moral rule’ by ‘good people’ rather than a more democratic and inclusive kind of politics.
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ID:
184826
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178401
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This article examines the extent, form, and motivations for Isan people’s involvement in the 2020 Thai youth protests, both in Thailand’s northeast region and in Bangkok. Based on observations of more than two dozen protests, news analysis, and interviews, this paper argues that Isan people’s participation in these protests was driven by a desire to exert political agency and address the political inequality of khon isan (Isan people), which has been omnipresent throughout the region’s long history of political struggles.
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184845
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146534
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Thai grassroots activists known as ‘redshirts’ (broadly aligned with former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra) have been characterised according to their socio-economic profile, but despite pioneering works such as Buchanan (2013), Cohen (2012) and Ünaldi (2014), there is still much to learn about how ordinary redshirts voice their political stances. This article is based on a linguistic approach to discourse analysis and builds on Fairclough’s (2003) arguments concerning the ways in which speakers use intertextuality and assumption to construct social and political difference and consensus. It specifically explores redshirt understandings of democracy by examining intertextuality and presupposition through various linguistic strategies. It sets out to answer these questions: What are grassroots redshirt protesters’ understandings of democracy? How do they articulate those understandings verbally? The study is based on an analysis of 12 interviews conducted in 2012 with grassroots redshirts from Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. It shows how informants voiced notions of democracy by making explicit intertextual references and alluding to implicit meaning through presupposition. The results show that informants had a definite understanding of democracy despite a degree of contradiction, confusion and ambiguity. They also attempted to communicate political beliefs despite limits on their freedom of expression.
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178397
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This article discusses the motivations behind the involvement of high school students in the anti-government protests across Thailand in 2020. Drawing on 150 school and 150 university student interviews, focus groups, and observation of sixteen protests conducted around the country, it argues that protesting youths were motivated by grievances against repressive, authoritative and unaccountable conservative education systems and political institutions, particularly the monarchy.
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