Author : Ji Ungpakorn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Radicalism
ISBN : UOM:39015052970160
Radicalising Thailand
Ji Ungpakorn
Radicalising Thailand
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Women and Politics in Thailand
Kazuki Iwanaga
Author : Kazuki Iwanaga
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9788791114359
Women and Politics in Thailand by Kazuki Iwanaga Pdf
This edited volume, including contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field, addresses the challenges, obstacles and opportunities for increased women's political representation in Thailand. Will Thai politics be different with an increase in the number of women politicians? What are the possibilities for Thai women to take proactive initiatives that aim to transform Thai politics into being more gender aware and equal? In seeking to address these and related issues, the analysis brings together a complex interplay of factors, such as traditional Thai views of gender and politics; the national and local political context of the new Thai constitution of 1997; and recent experiences of selected women politicians in the legislative and executive branches of Thai government.
Truth on Trial in Thailand
David Streckfuss
Author : David Streckfuss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136942020
Truth on Trial in Thailand by David Streckfuss Pdf
Since 2005, Thailand has been in crisis, with unprecedented political instability and the worst political violence seen in the country in decades. In the aftermath of a military coup in 2006, Thailand’s press freedom ranking plunged, while arrests for lèse-majesté have skyrocketed to levels unknown in the modern world. Truth on Trial in Thailand traces the 110-year trajectory of defamation-based laws in Thailand. The most prominent of these is lèse-majesté, but defamation aspects also appear in laws on sedition and treason, the press and cinema, anti-communism, contempt of court, insulting of religion, as well as libel. This book makes the case that despite the appearance of growing democratization, authoritarian structures and urges still drive politics in Thailand; the long-term effects of defamation law adjudication has skewed the way that Thai society approaches and perceives "truth." Employing the work of Habermas, Foucault, Agamben, and Schmitt to construct an alternative framework to understand Thai history, Streckfuss contends that Thai history has become "suspended" since 1958, and repeatedly declining to face the truth of history has set the stage for an endless state of crisis. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of South East Asian politics, Asian history, and media and communication. David Streckfuss is an independent scholar who has lived in Thailand for more than 20 years. His work primarily concerns human rights, and political and cultural history.
Virtual Thailand
Glen Lewis
Author : Glen Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134217670
Virtual Thailand by Glen Lewis Pdf
Written by an established expert on Thailand, this is one of the first books to fully investigate the Thai media’s role during the Thaksin government’s first term. Incorporating political economy and media theory, the book provides a unique insight into globalization in Southeast Asia, analyzing the role of communications and media in regional cultural politics. Examining the period from the mid 1990s, Lewis makes a sustained comparison between Thailand and its neighbouring countries in relation to the media, business, politics and popular culture. Covering issues including business development, tourism, the Thai movie industry and the war on terror, the book argues that globalization as it relates to media, can be patterned on Thai experiences.
Thailand's Economic Recovery
Cavan Hogue
Author : Cavan Hogue
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789812303523
Thailand's Economic Recovery by Cavan Hogue Pdf
Thailand is a society in political, economic and social transition. Change is happening to varying degrees-at the national level and at the regional level where there are contrasting issues. Changes are positive, some are negative. This book looks at the various aspects of change as it impacts on business and the lives of the people.
Democracy and National Identity in Thailand
Michael Kelly Connors
Author : Michael Kelly Connors
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9788776940027
Democracy and National Identity in Thailand by Michael Kelly Connors Pdf
This revised and updated edition of the widely praised Democracy and National Identity in Thailand provides readers with a fascinating discussion of how debates about democracy and national identity in Thailand have evolved from the period of counter-insurgency in the 1960s to the current period. Focusing on state and civil society centered democratic projects, Connors uses original Thai language sources to trace how the Thai state developed a democratic ideology that meshed with idealized notions of Thai identity, focusing on the monarchy. The book moves on to explore how non-state actors have mobilized notions of democracy and national identity in their battle against authoritarian rule. It also invites readers to explore democratic ideology as a form of power aimed at creating ideal citizens able to support elite national projects.
NGOs and Civil Society in Thailand
Theerapat Ungsuchaval
Author : Theerapat Ungsuchaval
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000653373
NGOs and Civil Society in Thailand by Theerapat Ungsuchaval Pdf
NGOs and Civil Society in Thailand critically examines the relationships of civil society to nongovernmental organisations in Thailand, and examines the ‘NGOisation’ of civil society, how NGOs are funded and governed, and in what way the NGOs has been shaped to work with the funder. NGOisation is a phenomenon by which the funded organisations are impelled to transform suit their funder as reliable partners. Focusing on Thailand, an Asian country where NGOs have been heavily relied on the public sector for funding, the book analyses the relations between NGOs and their significant funder, Thailand Health Promotion Foundation (THPF), one of the biggest and most influential players in the NGO sector. As the NGO funded organisations are impelled to transform and adapt to become more professionalised, institutionalised, bureaucratised, and depoliticised to suit their funder as reliable partners, their characteristics and relations with the state are complex and interactive. Engaging with key stakeholders in the field of NGO and public governance in Thailand, the book demonstrates how THPF changed the NGO landscape, integrating them and innovatively coordinating non-state initiatives into public governance system. A novel contribution to the study of NGOs and the state, the book also addresses NGO transformation, politics, and governance. It will be of interest to academics working on Asian Politics, civil society, public policy and public management.
Human Rights in Thailand
Don Selby
Author : Don Selby
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812250220
Human Rights in Thailand by Don Selby Pdf
By placing greater emphasis on human rights as an anthropological concern, Don F. Selby concludes that they are a matter of negotiation within everyday forms of sociality, morality, and politics.
Values and Life Styles in Urban Asia
Takashi Inoguchi
Author : Takashi Inoguchi
Publisher : Siglo XXI
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9789682325649
Values and Life Styles in Urban Asia by Takashi Inoguchi Pdf
This book gives insights into the basic values and life styles of peoples of ten societies in East, Southeast, South and Central Asia. Based on data from AsiaBarometer public surveys of 2003, it examines human values and life styles of peoples in Urban Asia. It presents country profile and comparative analysis by well-informed scholars, reports of the entire questionnaires (both standard common English language questionnaire and local language questionnaires), the whole comparable tabulated figures by society, the sampling methods and sizes and fieldwork in ten societies.
Undergraduate Radicalisation in Selected Countries in Southeast Asia
Thomas Koruth Samuel
Author : Thomas Koruth Samuel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9671565611
Undergraduate Radicalisation in Selected Countries in Southeast Asia by Thomas Koruth Samuel Pdf
Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
Vedi Hadiz
Author : Vedi Hadiz
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804773522
Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia by Vedi Hadiz Pdf
This book is about how the design of institutional change results in unintended consequences. Many post-authoritarian societies have adopted decentralization—effectively localizing power—as part and parcel of democratization, but also in their efforts to entrench "good governance." Vedi Hadiz shifts the attention to the accompanying tensions and contradictions that define the terms under which the localization of power actually takes place. In the process, he develops a compelling analysis that ties social and institutional change to the outcomes of social conflict in local arenas of power. Using the case of Indonesia, and comparing it with Thailand and the Philippines, Hadiz seeks to understand the seeming puzzle of how local predatory systems of power remain resilient in the face of international and domestic pressures. Forcefully persuasive and characteristically passionate, Hadiz challenges readers while arguing convincingly that local power and politics still matter greatly in our globalized world.
Thaksin
Pasuk Phongpaichit,Chris Baker
Author : Pasuk Phongpaichit,Chris Baker
Publisher : Silkworm Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631024009
Thaksin by Pasuk Phongpaichit,Chris Baker Pdf
He made a fortune of two bilion US dollars in four years. He won four elections by landslides. He was overthrown by a coup and driven into exile. His opponents and supporters dressed themselves in red and yellow and fought battles on the streets. To some, he is a visionary, even a revolutionary. To others, he is greedy, deceitful, deluded, dangerous. This book was first published in 2004. Four new chapters provide a detailed account of the turmoil of Thai politics over the subsequent five years.
Democratizing Health Care
Illan Nam
Author : Illan Nam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137537126
Democratizing Health Care by Illan Nam Pdf
This book provides an account of milestone health insurance reforms that took place in Korea and Thailand, which significantly advanced equitable access and redistribution in health care. Thai and Korean welfare champions were deeply informed by their experiences as activists in their countries' democracy movements.
Social Activism in Southeast Asia
Michele Ford
Author : Michele Ford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415523554
Social Activism in Southeast Asia by Michele Ford Pdf
Social Activism in Southeast Asia examines the ways in which social movements operate in a region characterized by a history of authoritarian regimes and relatively weak civil society. It situates cutting-edge accounts of activism around civil and political rights, globalization, peace, the environment, migrant and factory labour, the rights of middle- and working-class women, and sexual identity in an overarching framework of analysis that forefronts the importance of human rights and the state as a focus for social activism. Drawing on contemporary evidence from Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Timor-Leste, the book explores the ways in which social movement actors engage with their international allies, the community and the state in order to promote social change. As well as providing detailed and nuanced analyses of particular movements in specific areas of Southeast Asia, the book addresses difficult questions about the politics, strategies and authenticity of social movements.
HIV/AIDS and the Social Consequences of Untamed Biomedicine
Graham Fordham
Author : Graham Fordham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317632733
HIV/AIDS and the Social Consequences of Untamed Biomedicine by Graham Fordham Pdf
Drawing on the case of HIV/AIDS in Thailand, this book examines how anthropological and other interpretative social science research has been utilized in modeling the AIDS epidemic, and in the design and implementation of interventions. It argues that much social science research has been complicit with the forces that generated the epidemic and with the social control agendas of the state, and that as such it has increased the weight of structural violence bearing upon the afflicted. The book also questions claims of Thai AIDS control success, arguing that these can only be made at the cost of excluding categories such as intravenous drug users, the incarcerated, and homosexuals, who continue to experience extraordinarily high levels of levels of HIV infection. Considered deviant and undeserving, these persons have deliberately been excluded from harm reduction programs. Overall, this work argues for the untapped potential of anthropological research in the health field, a confident anthropology rooted in ethnography and a critical reflexivity. Crucially, it argues that in context of interdisciplinary collaborations, anthropological research must refuse relegation to the status of an adjunct discipline, and must be free epistemologically and methodologically from the universalizing assumptions and practices of biomedicine.