Political Change in Thailand from the 1970s to the Present Time
Title | Political Change in Thailand from the 1970s to the Present Time PDF eBook |
Author | Vorasiri Amatyakul-Vedder |
Publisher | |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Democracy |
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Thailand, the Soteriological State in the 1970s
Title | Thailand, the Soteriological State in the 1970s PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Elizabeth Gray |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1890 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Buddhism |
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Revolution Interrupted
Title | Revolution Interrupted PDF eBook |
Author | Tyrell Haberkorn |
Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2011-04-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0299281833 |
In October 1973 a mass movement forced Thailand’s prime minister to step down and leave the country, ending nearly forty years of dictatorship. Three years later, in a brutal reassertion of authoritarian rule, Thai state and para-state forces quashed a demonstration at Thammasat University in Bangkok. In Revolution Interrupted, Tyrell Haberkorn focuses on this period when political activism briefly opened up the possibility for meaningful social change. Tenant farmers and their student allies fomented revolution, she shows, not by picking up guns but by invoking laws—laws that the Thai state ultimately proved unwilling to enforce. In choosing the law as their tool to fight unjust tenancy practices, farmers and students departed from the tactics of their ancestors and from the insurgent methods of the Communist Party of Thailand. To first imagine and then create a more just future, they drew on their own lived experience and the writings of Thai Marxian radicals of an earlier generation, as well as New Left, socialist, and other progressive thinkers from around the world. Yet their efforts were quickly met with harassment, intimidation, and assassinations of farmer leaders. More than thirty years later, the assassins remain unnamed. Drawing on hundreds of newspaper articles, cremation volumes, activist and state documents, and oral histories, Haberkorn reveals the ways in which the established order was undone and then reconsolidated. Examining this turbulent period through a new optic—interrupted revolution—she shows how the still unnameable violence continues to constrict political opportunity and to silence dissent in present-day Thailand.
Thailand
Title | Thailand PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Gray |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 19?? |
Genre | Buddhism and politics |
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Mediating Memories of the 1970s in Thai Cultural Production
Title | Mediating Memories of the 1970s in Thai Cultural Production PDF eBook |
Author | Sudarat Musikawong |
Publisher | |
Pages | 854 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History in mass media |
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Thailand’s Political Peasants
Title | Thailand’s Political Peasants PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Walker |
Publisher | University of Wisconsin Pres |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2012-08-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0299288234 |
When a populist movement elected Thaksin Shinawatra as prime minister of Thailand in 2001, many of the country’s urban elite dismissed the outcome as just another symptom of rural corruption, a traditional patronage system dominated by local strongmen pressuring their neighbors through political bullying and vote-buying. In Thailand’s Political Peasants, however, Andrew Walker argues that the emergence of an entirely new socioeconomic dynamic has dramatically changed the relations of Thai peasants with the state, making them a political force to be reckoned with. Whereas their ancestors focused on subsistence, this generation of middle-income peasants seeks productive relationships with sources of state power, produces cash crops, and derives additional income through non-agricultural work. In the increasingly decentralized, disaggregated country, rural villagers and farmers have themselves become entrepreneurs and agents of the state at the local level, while the state has changed from an extractor of taxes to a supplier of subsidies and a patron of development projects. Thailand’s Political Peasants provides an original, provocative analysis that encourages an ethnographic rethinking of rural politics in rapidly developing countries. Drawing on six years of fieldwork in Ban Tiam, a rural village in northern Thailand, Walker shows how analyses of peasant politics that focus primarily on rebellion, resistance, and evasion are becoming less useful for understanding emergent forms of political society.
Thailand, which Way in the 1970s?
Title | Thailand, which Way in the 1970s? PDF eBook |
Author | John P. Byrne |
Publisher | |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Communism |
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For the past two decades the United States has supported Thailand's efforts to develop a progressive and modern society. As the crisis in Indochina evolved during the 1960s, US military forces were deployed to Thailand both to support Thai efforts to resist subversion and insurgency, and to support combat operations in the Indochina nations. The Nixon Doctrine has declared a US intent to reduce the US presence in Asia and to rely more heavily upon the resources of allies for internal stability operations in the future. This report examines Thailand's progress during the 1960s and the prognosis for continued independence and development during the 1970s. (Modified author abstract).