Northern Thai Peasant Society
Author : Andrew Turton
Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,37 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Peasants
ISBN :
Author : Andrew Turton
Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,37 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Peasants
ISBN :
Author : Andrew Turton
Publisher :
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 34,69 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Social change
ISBN :
Author : Andrew Turton
Publisher :
Page : 1344 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 1975
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Andrew G. W. Turton
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 1975
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Andrew Walker
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : 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.
Author : Chayan Vaddhanaphuti
Publisher :
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Peasants
ISBN :
Author : Edward Bernard Fallon
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Peasants
ISBN :
Author : Peter R. Kunstadter
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824881974
Farmers in the Forest, while using examples chiefly from northern Thailand, is concerned with complex problems found in all tropical countries. In these areas rapid population growth, increasing demands for food, and burgeoning international markets for forest products and other raw materials are associated with active competition for land and natural resources in upland areas. This book brings together studies by administrators, agronomists, anthropologists, forest ecologists, geographers and jurists, who describe a variety of swidden systems and their effect on soil, forest, society, and economy. They point to conflicts between traditional farming systems and modern legal and administrative constraints now being imposed, and they describe special and technological conditions that contribute to a marginal, stagnant upland economy, increasing socio-economic disparities with the lowlands, and the serious ecological consequences of these conditions. Several possible solutions are suggested to solve these problems.
Author : Sūn Wičhai Chāokhao Čhangwat Chīang Mai (Thailand)
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN :
Author : Anjalee Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 1351127721
Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand examines how young people in urban Chiang Mai construct an identity at the intersection of global capitalism, state ideologies, and local culture. Drawing on over 15 years of ethnographic research, the book explores the impact of rapid urbanisation and modernisation on contemporary Thai youth, focusing on conspicuous youth subcultures, drug use (especially methamphetamine use), and violent youth gangs. Anjalee Cohen shows how young Thai people construct a specific youth identity through consumerism and symbolic boundaries – in particular through enduring rural/urban distinctions. The suggestion is that the formation of subcultures and “deviant” youth practices, such as drug use and violence, are not necessarily forms of resistance against the dominant culture, nor a pathological response to dramatic social change, as typically understood in academic and public discourse. Rather, Cohen argues that such practices are attempts to “fit in and stick out” in an anonymous urban environment. This volume is relevant to scholars in Thai Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Urban Studies, and Development Studies, particularly those with an interest in youth, drugs, and gangs.