ESSENTIAL READING — Special edition of the Cultural Anthropology journal focusing on Thailand, with articles by David Streckfuss, Thongchai Winichakul, Aim Sinpeng, Kevin Hewison, Pavin Chachavalpongpun, Duncan McCargo, Claudio Sopranzetti and others.
The Wheel of Crisis in Thailand
by Ben Tausig, Claudio Sopranzetti, Felicity Aulino and Eli Elinoff
For decades, Thailand has been entangled in a cycle of political turmoil that oscillates between elections, street protests, and coups both military and judicial. Although this dynamic has dominated in Thailand since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932, what we term the “wheel of crisis” has increased its rotational speed since the 1997 Asian economic collapse. This Hot Spot series inquires into the underlying conditions of Thailand's recent political upheavals, with sections focusing on legal and political stuctures (Hewison, Haberkorn, Streckfuss, Sinpeng, Chachavalpongpun, and Winichakul), social divisions and citizenship (Mills, Elinoff, McCargo, and Arafat Bin Mohamad), the turning of civil society against democracy (Phatharathananunth, and Sae Chua), and larger structure questions (Tausig, Sopranzetti, and Aulino).
Posts in This Series
Introduction: The Wheel of Crisis in Thailand
by Ben Tausig, Claudio Sopranzetti, Eli Elinoff and Felicity Aulino
Judicial Politicization as Political Conservatism
by Kevin Hewison
Article 17, a Totalitarian Movement, and a Military Dictatorship
by Tyrell Haberkorn
The End of the Endless Exception?: Time Catches Up With Dictatorship in Thailand
by David Streckfuss
The Cyber Coup
by Aim Sinpeng
Academic Freedom Under Siege
by Pavin Chachavalpongpun
Thai "Royalist Democracy": From Nineteen Eighty-Four to The Great Dictator”
by Thongchai Winichakul
Questioning Thailand’s Rural-Urban Divide
by Mary Beth Mills
Like Everyone Else
by Eli Elinoff
Double Trouble: Thailand's Two Souths, Thailand's Two Conflicts
by Duncan McCargo
Red Shirts, Yellow Shirts, Same Difference
by Muhammad Arafat Bin Mohammad
Civil Society Against Democracy
by Somchai Phatharathananunth
Revisiting “People’s Politics”
by Bencharat Sae Chua
Party Anthems
by Ben Tausig
Political Legitimacy in Thailand
by Claudio Sopranzetti
Hierarchy and the Embodiment of Change
by Felicity Aulino
by Ben Tausig, Claudio Sopranzetti, Felicity Aulino and Eli Elinoff
For decades, Thailand has been entangled in a cycle of political turmoil that oscillates between elections, street protests, and coups both military and judicial. Although this dynamic has dominated in Thailand since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932, what we term the “wheel of crisis” has increased its rotational speed since the 1997 Asian economic collapse. This Hot Spot series inquires into the underlying conditions of Thailand's recent political upheavals, with sections focusing on legal and political stuctures (Hewison, Haberkorn, Streckfuss, Sinpeng, Chachavalpongpun, and Winichakul), social divisions and citizenship (Mills, Elinoff, McCargo, and Arafat Bin Mohamad), the turning of civil society against democracy (Phatharathananunth, and Sae Chua), and larger structure questions (Tausig, Sopranzetti, and Aulino).
Posts in This Series
Introduction: The Wheel of Crisis in Thailand
by Ben Tausig, Claudio Sopranzetti, Eli Elinoff and Felicity Aulino
Judicial Politicization as Political Conservatism
by Kevin Hewison
Article 17, a Totalitarian Movement, and a Military Dictatorship
by Tyrell Haberkorn
The End of the Endless Exception?: Time Catches Up With Dictatorship in Thailand
by David Streckfuss
The Cyber Coup
by Aim Sinpeng
Academic Freedom Under Siege
by Pavin Chachavalpongpun
Thai "Royalist Democracy": From Nineteen Eighty-Four to The Great Dictator”
by Thongchai Winichakul
Questioning Thailand’s Rural-Urban Divide
by Mary Beth Mills
Like Everyone Else
by Eli Elinoff
Double Trouble: Thailand's Two Souths, Thailand's Two Conflicts
by Duncan McCargo
Red Shirts, Yellow Shirts, Same Difference
by Muhammad Arafat Bin Mohammad
Civil Society Against Democracy
by Somchai Phatharathananunth
Revisiting “People’s Politics”
by Bencharat Sae Chua
Party Anthems
by Ben Tausig
Political Legitimacy in Thailand
by Claudio Sopranzetti
Hierarchy and the Embodiment of Change
by Felicity Aulino
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