Peasants And State In Contemporary Thailand
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Peasants and State in Contemporary Thailand
Author | : Hans Ulrich Luther |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : |
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.
Thailand’s Political Peasants
Author | : Andrew Walker |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total 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.
Peasants and State in Thailand's Democratic Period, 1973-1976
Author | : Hans U. Luther |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Agriculture and state |
ISBN | : |
Village Life in Modern Thailand
Author | : John E. De Young |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Peasantry |
ISBN | : |
Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East
Author | : Joel Beinin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2001-09-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521629034 |
Joel Beinin's book offers a survey of subaltern history in the Middle East.
A History of Thailand
Author | : Christopher John Baker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2014-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107420210 |
A History of Thailand offers a lively and accessible account of Thailand's political, economic, social and cultural history. This book explores how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree peasants was transformed and examines how the monarchy managed the foundation of a new nation-state at the turn of the twentieth century. The authors capture the clashes between various groups in their attempts to take control of the nation-state in the twentieth century. They track Thailand's economic changes through an economic boom, globalisation and the evolution of mass society. This edition sheds light on Thailand's recent political, social and economic developments, covering the coup of 2006, the violent street politics of May 2010, and the landmark election of 2011 and its aftermath. It shows how in Thailand today, the monarchy, the military, business and new mass movements are players in a complex conflict over the nature and future of the country's democracy.