Contemporary Thailand

Author : Pavin Chachavalpongpun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351364874

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Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Thailand by Pavin Chachavalpongpun Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Thailand is a timely survey and assessment of the state of contemporary Thailand. While Thailand has changed much in the past decades, this handbook proposes that many of its problems have remained intact or even persistent, particularly problems related to domestic politics. It underlines emerging issues at this critical juncture in the kingdom and focuses on the history, politics, economy, society, culture, religion and international relations of the country. A multidisciplinary approach, with chapters written by experts on Thailand, this handbook is divided into the following sections. History Political and economic landscape Social development International relations Designed for academics, students, libraries, policymakers and general readers in the field of Asian studies, political science, economics and sociology, this invaluable reference work provides an up-to-date account of Thailand and initiates new discussion for future research activities.

Author : Wongvipa Devahastin Na Ayudhya,Jane Doughty Marsden
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781462906888

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Contemporary Thai by Wongvipa Devahastin Na Ayudhya,Jane Doughty Marsden Pdf

With over 150 photographs and insightful text, this Thai design book showcases some of the best interiors in the country. Known for its beautiful traditional and contemporary handicrafts, it's no wonder that Thailand is home to some of the most beautifully decorated houses in the world. Elegant, innovative and versatile, Contemporary Thai is overflowing with an amazing array of design ideas. From modernist furniture, table settings, light fixtures and furnishings combining old traditions with new styles, Contemporary Thai is the perfect book for anyone looking to add a distinctive touch to their home decor.

Author : Brian Curtin
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789142938

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Essential Desires by Brian Curtin Pdf

Essential Desires: Contemporary Art in Thailand is the first major, fully illustrated survey of Thai art in thirty years. Brian Curtin shows how Thai artists negotiated their emergence on the global art stage while dealing with pan-Asian regionalism and nationalism at home. This book traces the influences on contemporary Thai artists, from the impact of consumerism in Bangkok in the 1990s to the waning legacies of tradition, and their relationship to the nation's often-volatile political stage. Curtin, in his exploration of Thailand's fascinating art scene, shows how Thai artists are generating new ideas about their country.

Author : Ross King
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814722278

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Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand by Ross King Pdf

Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand explores the intersections of memory, place, power and tourism in the production of Thai heritage and identity. The author shows that underlying officially promulgated ideas is a much deeper, richer and sometimes darker substratum of memories and practices that both undermine and enrich conventional ideas of Thailand as a Kingdom, a nation and a culture. The book views Thai culture and its heritage from a variety of perspectives that are derived from the work of Thai scholars but refracted through a more Western epistemology and its attendant critical theory. Through a juxtaposition of Thai and Western critical scholarship, it highlights key elements of Thai identity or, more accurately, the diversity of Thai identities. In the process, the book raises questions about both Thai and Western thinking about knowledge and its production.

Author : Pranee Liamputtong
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400772441

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Contemporary Socio-Cultural and Political Perspectives in Thailand by Pranee Liamputtong Pdf

This volume examines contemporary Thailand. It captures aspects of Thai society that have changed dramatically over the past years and that have turned Thailand into a society that is different from what most people outside the country know and expect. The social transition of Thailand has been marked by economic growth, population restructuring, social and cultural development, political movements, and many reforms including the national health care system. The book covers the social, cultural, and economic changes as well as political situations. It discusses both historical contexts and emerging issues. It includes chapters on social and public health concerns, and on ethnicity, gender, sexuality and social class. Most chapters use information from empirical-based and historical research. They describe real life experiences of the contributors and Thai people who participated in the research.

Author : Chee-Kiong Tong,Kwok-bun Chan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004488526

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Alternate Identities by Chee-Kiong Tong,Kwok-bun Chan Pdf

The first of the Asian Science Series, this book explores the question: Who are the Chinese in Thailand? Are they "assimilated Thais" or are they "Chinese" living in Thailand? Does their being "in" Thailand make them "of" Thailand? Through a collection of authoritative essays, this book explores how the Chinese of Thailand constantly alternate their positions within the fabric of the Thai society. For those seeking the composite image of what it means to be a Chinese, this book holds up many intriguing mirrors. This is a co-publication with Times Academic Press

Author : Nithi Sathāpitānon,Brian Mertens
Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789814260862

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Architecture of Thailand by Nithi Sathāpitānon,Brian Mertens Pdf

Beginning with a history of the country and its cultural influences, this book describes and illustrates a range of structures, from Thai houses to elaborate temples and even crematoriums. It concludes with a look at contemporary Thai architecture and how traditional architecture practices have been adapted to suit modern needs.

Author : Antonio L. Rappa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781315411323

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The King and the Making of Modern Thailand by Antonio L. Rappa Pdf

The making of modern Thailand is grounded in specific political institutions, Brahmanical tropes, and sacred Buddhist traditions stylized with Hindu rituals. Over and above these mysterious practices and ancient customs, modern Thailand is a product of the late Great Rama IX Bhumibol Adulyadej. Most Thai people have only known one King. Born in Europe and educated during World War II, Bhumibol was the son of a Harvard medical doctor who had a penchant for jazz music and fast cars. When he returned to Thailand in 1951 to assume his royal duties, he could hardly speak Thai but his French and German were remarkable. Bhumibol had inherited an impoverished country with nothing but a symbolic role as a figurehead monarch. He was surrounded by envious courtiers and royals from other families now sidelined by the rise of the Chakri. Scheming generals and authoritarian field marshals were emptying the Kingdom’s coffers. Using guile and wit, Bhumibol had turned the tide by 1973. He became the most powerful modern warlord in the history of the Kingdom. He survived attempted murder, crafty politicians, corrupt generals, sycophantic courtiers and impoverished masses. When he died on October 13 2016, Bhumibol was already the longest standing monarch in the world. King Bhumibol was deeply respected and well-liked by farang and locals alike. Despite his massive social and economic achievements many problems continue to plague the Kingdom. These are prostitution, human rights issues, pollution, corruption, cronyism in Chinese businesses, border conflicts with Cambodia, and the refugee problem. This book examines the role of Rama IX and the variegated set of problems that persist in life under the great white elephant and mango trees. Rappa draws from his primary research that includes interviews, surveys and first-hand observations of a remarkable kingdom and a uniquely remarkable king to reveal the internal security threats to democracy and civil society in the oldest Southeast Asian kingdom in late modernity.

Author : Steven Pettifor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015066885479

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Flavours by Steven Pettifor Pdf

'Flavours' offers a taste of the contemporary art scene in Thailand, a country with strong traditions but which is rapidly modernising. The text includes career profiles of 23 artists.

Author : David Teh
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262035958

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Thai Art by David Teh Pdf

The interplay of the local and the global in contemporary Thai art, as artists strive for international recognition and a new meaning of the national. Since the 1990s, Thai contemporary art has achieved international recognition, circulating globally by way of biennials, museums, and commercial galleries. Many Thai artists have shed identification with their nation; but “Thainess” remains an interpretive crutch for understanding their work. In this book, the curator and critic David Teh examines the tension between the global and the local in Thai contemporary art. Writing the first serious study of Thai art since 1992 (and noting that art history and criticism have lagged behind the market in recognizing it), he describes the competing claims to contemporaneity, as staked in Thailand and on behalf of Thai art elsewhere. He shows how the values of the global art world are exchanged with local ones, how they do and don't correspond, and how these discrepancies have been exploited. How can we make sense of globally circulating art without forgoing the interpretive resources of the local, national, or regional context? Teh examines the work of artists who straddle the local and the global, becoming willing agents of assimilation yet resisting homogenization. He describes the transition from an artistic subjectivity couched in terms of national community to a more qualified, postnational one, against the backdrop of the singular but waning sovereignty of the Thai monarchy and sustained political and economic turmoil. Among the national currencies of Thai art that Teh identifies are an agricultural symbology, a Siamese poetics of distance and itinerancy, and Hindu-Buddhist conceptions of charismatic power. Each of these currencies has been converted to a legal tender in global art—signifying sustainability, utopia, the conceptual, and the relational—but what is lost, and what may be gained, in such exchanges?

Author : Michael Jerryson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199362394

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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism by Michael Jerryson Pdf

As an incredibly diverse religious system, Buddhism is constantly changing. The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism offers a comprehensive collection of work by leading scholars in the field that tracks these changes up to the present day. Taken together, the book provides a blueprint to understanding Buddhism's past and uses it to explore the ways in which Buddhism has transformed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The volume contains 41 essays, divided into two sections. The essays in the first section examine the historical development of Buddhist traditions throughout the world. These chapters cover familiar settings like India, Japan, and Tibet as well as the less well-known countries of Vietnam, Bhutan, and the regions of Latin America, Africa, and Oceania. Focusing on changes within countries and transnationally, this section also contains chapters that focus explicitly on globalization, such as Buddhist international organizations and diasporic communities. The second section tracks the relationship between Buddhist traditions and particular themes. These chapters review Buddhist interactions with contemporary topics such as violence and peacebuilding, and ecology, as well as Buddhist influences in areas such as medicine and science. Offering coverage that is both expansive and detailed, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism delves into some of the most debated and contested areas within Buddhist Studies today.

Author : Andrew Walker
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299288235

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Thailand’s Political Peasants by Andrew Walker Pdf

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.

Author : Hans Ulrich Luther
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015000582786

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Peasants and State in Contemporary Thailand by Hans Ulrich Luther Pdf

Monograph examining peasant movement in Thailand, with particullar reference to political opposition to State in rural areas - discusses problems of ruraleconomic disparity, low incomes and poverty in context with governmental response (incl. Administrative reform and land reform), presents a case study of North-Eastern Thailand with respect to the role of communism and role of USA armed forces and economic aid, and includes a chronology of political events from 1885 to 1978. Bibliography pp. 105 and 106, map, references and statistical tables.

Author : Arnika Fuhrmann
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822374251

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Ghostly Desires by Arnika Fuhrmann Pdf

Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life. The drama, horror, heritage, and experimental art films she analyzes draw on Buddhist-informed conceptions of impermanence and prominently feature the motif of the female ghost. In these films the characters' eroticization in the spheres of loss and death represents an improvisation on the Buddhist disavowal of attachment and highlights under-recognized female and queer desire and persistence. Her feminist and queer readings reveal the entangled relationships between film, sexuality, Buddhist ideas, and the Thai state's regulation of heteronormative sexuality. Fuhrmann thereby provides insights into the configuration of contemporary Thailand while opening up new possibilities for thinking about queer personhood and femininity.

Author : Phra Ratchawaramunī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UOM:39015008878392

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Social Dimension of Buddhism in Contemporary Thailand by Phra Ratchawaramunī Pdf