Imagining Communities In Thailand

Author : Shigeharu Tanabe
Publisher : Silkworm Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073630611

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Imagining Communities in Thailand by Shigeharu Tanabe Pdf

This book explores newly emerging communities and the new practices, knowledge, and power relations that can no longer be explained adequately by the conventional conception of community. In the early 1980s, Benedict Anderson coined the term "imagined communities" to examine the creation and global spread of the nation-state as a collective fiction constructed in the homogeneous and empty time of modernity. Set against this conceptual background, the present volume focuses on the processes of "imaging communities" to explore how people imagine and create their own sense of knowledge, power, and identity. The essays in this volume consider the communal relations and properties of newly emerging or transforming communities, associations, and networks: the "imagined family" in shaping the modern Thai nation-state, the Asoke community of a new Buddhist movement, a Karen millenarian Buddhist community on the Thai-Myanmar border, networks of producers and sellers in the Night Bazaar of Chiang Mai, female factory workers in Lamphun, and HIV/AIDS self-help groups of northern Thailand. Taken together, these case studies demonstrate the possibilities of new communities in Thailand and provide a key reference for both students and scholars concerned with a critical approach to sociology, history, development studies, Southeast Asian studies, and anthropology.

Author : Chayan Vaddhanaphuti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Ethnic groups
ISBN : 616398658X

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Imagining Ethnic Communities by Chayan Vaddhanaphuti Pdf

Author : Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson
Publisher : Southeast Asia Program Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Thailand
ISBN : 0877277931

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Exploration and Irony in Studies of Siam Over Forty Years by Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson Pdf

Benedict R. O'G. Anderson is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work on the politics and cultures of Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. His early studies of Indonesia led to the publication of Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, a book that profoundly changed the way people understand modern states. Banned from returning to Indonesia after his interpretation of the 1965 coup was published, Anderson shifted his attention to Thailand. This collection of essays gathers in one book Anderson's iconoclastic analyses of Siam (Thailand), its political institutions and bloody upheavals, its literature, authors, and contemporary cinema. The volume begins with the challenging essay "Studies of the Thai State: The State of Thai Studies," followed by chapters that map shifts of power between the Left and Right in Thailand, the role of the monarchy, and the significance of the military. The final essays track Anderson's own evolution as a student of Siam and his growing, more playful interest in billboards, ephemera, and film. Together, these works demonstrate an extraordinary scholar's commitment to exploring Thailand.

Author : Benedict Anderson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781683590

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Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson Pdf

What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century, these debates on the nature of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise, vying for influence, and old empires decline, we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history, and change.

Author : Chosein Yamahata,Sueo Sudo,Takashi Matsugi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811514395

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Rights and Security in India, Myanmar, and Thailand by Chosein Yamahata,Sueo Sudo,Takashi Matsugi Pdf

This book is centred on the role of the triangular interactions among communities, educational sectors, and academic diplomacy in facilitating peaceful societal change by evaluating the common challenges in India, Myanmar, and Thailand. It analyses urban poverty, religious freedom, ethnic diversity, women’s rights, development and regional partnership, civil-military relations, and human security in democratic transition and explores in-depth the societal issues from local and international perspectives paying special attention to the protection of ‘rights’ and promotion of ‘security’ in these societies. The book highlights that the continuous application of knowledge across borders and the promotion of international norms are essential tools in enabling social transformations from the bottom. In addition, the contributors promote further discussion on both the process and the outcome from action research projects that shape the lives of the local people and their communities. The book therefore contributes to the existing literature by offering additional insights into the societies of India, Myanmar and Thailand for policy makers, social innovators, researchers, development analysts and planners and the general public including students.

Author : Astrid Noren-Nilsson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501725944

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Cambodia's Second Kingdom by Astrid Noren-Nilsson Pdf

Cambodia's Second Kingdom is an exploration of the role of nationalist imaginings, discourses, and narratives in Cambodia since the 1993 reintroduction of a multiparty democratic system. Competing nationalistic imaginings are shown to be a more prominent part of party political contestation in the Kingdom of Cambodia than typically believed. For political parties, nationalistic imaginings became the basis for strategies to attract popular support, electoral victories, and moral legitimacy. Astrid Norén-Nilsson uses uncommon sources, such as interviews with key contemporary political actors, to analyze Cambodia’s postconflict reconstruction politics. This book exposes how nationalist imaginings, typically understood to be associated with political opposition, have been central to the reworking of political identities and legitimacy bids across the political spectrum. Norén-Nilsson examines the entanglement of notions of democracy and national identity and traces out a tension between domestic elite imaginings and the liberal democratic framework in which they operate

Author : Thongchai Winichakul
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824841294

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Siam Mapped by Thongchai Winichakul Pdf

This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern conception of a nation. Siam Mapped challenges much that has been written on Thai history because it demonstrates convincingly that the physical and political definition of Thailand on which other works are based is anachronistic.

Author : Jim Taylor
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0754662470

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Buddhism and Postmodern Imaginings in Thailand by Jim Taylor Pdf

This book presents a rethink on the significance of Thai Buddhism in an increasingly complex and changing post-modern urban context, especially following the financial crisis of 1997. Defining the cultural nature of Thai 'urbanity'; the implications for local/global flows, interactions and emergent social formations, James Taylor opens up new possibilities in understanding the specificities of everyday urban life as this relates to perceptions, conceptions and lived experiences of religiosity. Changes in the centre are also reverberating in the remaining forests and the monastic tradition of forest-dwelling which has sourced most of the nation's modern saints. The text is based on ethnography taking into account the rich variety of everyday practices in a mélange of the religious. In Thailand, Buddhism is so intimately interconnected with national identity and social, economic and ethno-political concerns as to be inseparable. Taylor argues here that in recent years there has been a marked reformulation of important conventional cosmologies through new and challenging Buddhist ideas and practices. These influences and changes are as much located outside as inside the Buddhist temples/monasteries.

Author : Donald K. Swearer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438432526

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The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia by Donald K. Swearer Pdf

An unparalleled portrait, Donald K. Swearer's Buddhist World of Southeast Asia has been a key source for all those interested in the Theravada homelands since the work's publication in 1995. Expanded and updated, the second edition offers this wide ranging account for readers at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Swearer shows Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia to be a dynamic, complex system of thought and practice embedded in the cultures, societies, and histories of Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka. The work focuses on three distinct yet interrelated aspects of this milieu. The first is the popular tradition of life models personified in myths and legends, rites of passage, festival celebrations, and ritual occasions. The second deals with Buddhism and the state, illustrating how King Asoka serves as the paradigmatic Buddhist monarch, discussing the relationship of cosmology and kingship, and detailing the rise of charismatic Buddhist political leaders in the postcolonial period. The third is the modern transformation of Buddhism: the changing roles of monks and laity, modern reform movements, the role of women, and Buddhism in the West.

Author : Alexander Trupp
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315363646

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Migration, Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand by Alexander Trupp Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Ethnic minorities and street vendors in Thailand's tourist areas -- Highlanders in the city -- Street vendors as micro-entrepreneurs -- The structure of the book -- 2 Conceptual foundations and methodology -- Understanding mobilities, agency, and embeddedness -- Field research and data collection -- Data analysis -- 3 Thailand and the ethnic minority context -- The making of a 'hilltribe problem' -- The Akha -- 4 Ethnic tourism and the evolution of micro-businesses in urban contexts -- From hillside to roadside -- Moving on to Bangkok and the beachside -- The development of Akha souvenirs -- 5 Opportunities and constraints -- Economic structures and market conditions -- Politico-legal structures -- 6 Differences within: Migration, vending, and gender -- Types of migrants and migration -- Vending styles -- Gendered practices -- 7 Social dimensions of economic action -- Mobilizing insider relations -- Mobilizing outsider relations -- 8 Strategies and dilemmas in the field of urban souvenir businesses -- Social cohesion versus competition and individualization -- Politico-legal constraints versus mobility -- Economic opportunities versus exploitation -- Cultural capital versus discrimination -- Outlook -- Index.

Author : Dana E. Aspinall,Edward C. Lorenz,J. Michael Raley
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498504140

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Montesinos' Legacy by Dana E. Aspinall,Edward C. Lorenz,J. Michael Raley Pdf

Montesinos’ Legacy brings scholars together in honor of the 500th anniversary of Dominican Antonio de Montesinos’ famous sermon in defense of the rights of the indigenous Amerindians. The collection addresses the historical context for this sermon, but also the continued relevance of Montesinos today.

Author : Leo Suryadinata
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813055506

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Ethnic Chinese as Southeast Asians by Leo Suryadinata Pdf

More than 80 per cent of the Chinese outside China live in Southeast Asia and many of them have been integrated into the local societies. However, the resurgence of China and ethnic Chinese investment in their ancestral land have caused concern among some non-Chinese Southeast Asian elites. They have begun to question the position and identity of the Chinese population in their countries. Ethnic Chinese as Southeast Asians addresses these ethnic Chinese issues, as well as ethnic Chinese relations with China and with indigenous groups in the region. Written by leading scholars in Southeast Asia, including both ethnic Chinese and non-Chinese, the volume also explores the position of the ethnic Chinese in contemporary as well as the future Southeast Asia, providing readers with a most up-to-date and comprehensive study on the subject.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137076359

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Ethnic Chinese As Southeast Asians by NA NA Pdf

This book addresses ethnic Chinese issues, as well as ethnic Chinese relations with China and with indigenous groups in the region.

Author : John Powers,Charles S. Prebish
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781559397889

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Destroying Mara Forever by John Powers,Charles S. Prebish Pdf

A thought-provoking collection of essays on Buddhist ethics by some of the leading thinkers in the field. The reader is provided with engaging explorations of central issues in Buddhist ethics, insightful analyses of the ways Buddhist ethical principles are being applied today in both Asian and Western countries, and groundbreaking proposals about how Buddhist perspectives might inform debates on some of the core ethical issues of the modern world, including consumerism, globalization, environmental problems, war, ethnic conflict, and inter-religious tensions. The leading figure in identifying the field of Buddhist ethics and articulating some of its core issues is Professor Damien Keown of the University of London. This book brings together a group of eminent scholars who have all been influenced by Keown's work and who are also friends and close colleagues. The result is a wonderful volume for those who are struggling with practical issues of ethical concern. This will be a valuable resource in the study of ethics for years to come.

Author : Mark Feng Teng,Wang Lixun
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350099678

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Identity, Motivation, and Multilingual Education in Asian Contexts by Mark Feng Teng,Wang Lixun Pdf

This book investigates how learners' motivations and identities are constructed in the process of learning and using multiple languages in Asian contexts. It presents examples of multilingual contexts in different parts of Asia and illustrates various achievements and challenges associated with multilingual education. Drawing on recent theoretical developments regarding learners' motivations and identities in language learning-related research, this book uncovers learners' motivations that underlie their decisions of learning multiple languages in Asian contexts. Through empirical studies, the authors offer conceptual interpretations on emerging concepts such as dual-motivation system, motivation dynamics, motivational transformation episodes, and hierarchies of identities. In addition to being highly relevant to researchers of applied linguistics, this book is a valuable reference for every university and college library that serves a faculty or school of education.