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The King's Nation: a Study of the Emergence and Development of Nation and Nationalism in Thailand
THE KING’S NATION: A STUDY OF THE EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF NATION AND NATIONALISM IN THAILAND Andreas Sturm Presented for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science) 2006 UMI Number: U215429 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Dissertation Publishing UMI U215429 Published by ProQuest LLC 2014. Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest LLC 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 I Declaration I hereby declare that the thesis, submitted in partial fulfillment o f the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and entitled ‘The King’s Nation: A Study of the Emergence and Development of Nation and Nationalism in Thailand’, represents my own work and has not been previously submitted to this or any other institution for any degree, diploma or other qualification. Andreas Sturm 2 VV Abstract This thesis presents an overview over the history of the concepts ofnation and nationalism in Thailand. Based on the ethno-symbolist approach to the study of nationalism, this thesis proposes to see the Thai nation as a result of a long process, reflecting the three-phases-model (ethnie , pre-modem and modem nation) for the potential development of a nation as outlined by Anthony Smith. -
Burma As ‘Corridor’: a Case of South Asian Descendants’ Community in Northern Thailand1) Mineo Takada
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE Burma as ‘Corridor’: A Case of South Asian Descendants’ Community in Northern Thailand1) Mineo Takada This paper highlights the location of Burma (Myanmar) and reconsiders its geographical territory and its historical position. There were and are a lot of studies of Burma/Myanmar. Most of the studies were on the Burma itself or on those people living in Burma. On the other hand, Burma situ- ated at the meeting point of South Asia and Southeast Asia. In other words, Burma holds a position of the node or corridor which connecting these two regions. This paper tries to focus on Burma as ‘corridor’, by considering a case of South Asian migrant groups in Thailand, a Bangladeshi (or Eastern Bengal) Muslim descendants’ community in northern Thailand. 1. South Asia and Southeast Asia: Continuity and disjuncture At first, it should be pointed out that there seem several reasons for having not paying attention to the continuity between South Asia and Southeast Asia. Firstly, we must think about the very existence of nation states and its bor- ders. We, those who accustom with the nation states and its borders, are tented to presuppose the framework of those ones. Van SCENDEL (2005:4– 5) pointed out this tendency clearly and critically, and suggested the difficulty to avoid its grip as ‘territorial trap’. Needless to say, there are two borders, India/Bangadesh-Myanmar border and Myanmar- Thailand border, between South Asia and Thailand. In addition to these, there lays down a vast geo- graphical space of Myanmar between these two regions. -
35 Chapter 2 Historical Religious Discourses And
35 CHAPTER 2 HISTORICAL RELIGIOUS DISCOURSES AND MODERNITY IN NORTHERN THAI CONTEXT As Buddhism has been a political system created by each nation-state (Hayashi, 2003: 11), we can find the incorporation of Buddhist identity into the lands which were owned by indigenous groups who worshipped the spirits in the legitimization of authority. It has created religious discourses as a ‘general politics’ of truth: that is, the types of discourse which it accepts and make function as true; the mechanisms and instances which enable one to distinguish true and false statement, the means by which each is sanctioned; the techniques and procedures accorded value in the acquisition of truth; the status of those who are charged with saying what counts as true (Foucault, 1980: 131). However, the process of incorporation of Buddhist identity into indigenous beliefs and practices has not been completely accomplished. Even though indigenous spirit worship was integrated into Buddhism under ‘Buddhicization’ process in which Buddhism become dominant during the premodern or was officially banned by the reformed Buddhism in the modern period, the belief in spirits still has a strong persistence and permeates into the everyday practice of the people until present. In this process, we can find the politics of religious space which had been used by both state and populace as a strategy in the construction of discourses. 2.1 Spirits Belief in Local Religious Practices The worship of spirits was widely practiced throughout Lanna long before Buddhism first entered into the region. Until now, the belief in spirits remains a powerful meaning-system in people’s life-world. -
The Participatory We-Self: Ethnicity and Music In
THE PARTICIPATORY WE-SELF: ETHNICITY AND MUSIC IN NORTHERN THAILAND A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE DIVISION OF THE UNIVERSITYOF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN MUSIC AUGUST 2017 By Benjamin Stuart Fairfield Dissertation Committee: Frederick Lau, Chairperson Ricardo D. Trimillos R. Anderson Sutton Paul Lavy Barbara W. Andaya Keywords: Northern Thailand, Participatory Music, Lanna, Karen, Lahu, Akha i ABSTRACT The 20th century consolidation of Bangkok’s central rule over the northern Lanna kingdom and its outliers significantly impacted and retrospectively continues to shape regional identities, influencing not just khon mueang northerners but also ethnic highlanders including the Karen, Akha, Lahu, and others. Scholars highlight the importance and emergence of northern Thai “Lanna” identity and its fashioning via performance, specifically in relation to a modernizing and encroaching central Thai state, yet northern-focused studies tend to grant highland groups only cursory mention. Grounded in ethnographic field research on participatory musical application and Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi’s notion of “flow”, this dissertation examines four case studies of musical engagements in the north as it specifically relates to ethnic, political, and autoethnographic positioning, narratives, and group formulation. In examining the inclusive and exclusive participatory nature of musical expression within various ethnic and local performances in the north, I show how identity construction and social synchrony, achieved via “flow,” sit at the heart of debates over authenticity, continuity, and ethnic destiny. This especially happens within and is complicated by the process of participatory musical traditions, where Thongchai Winichakul’s “we-self” is felt, synchronized, distinguished, and imagined as extending beyond the local performance in shared musical space across borders and through time—even as the “other” is present and necessary for the distinguishing act of ethnic formalization. -
THE IMAGE of CHIANG Mal: the MAKING of a BEAUTIFUL CITY
Ronald D. Renard THE IMAGE OF CHIANG MAl: THE MAKING OF A BEAUTIFUL CITY Chiang Mai conjures up images of pretty girls, by the Asia Training Centre on Ageing and flowers, pleasing customs, striking scenery, and Care International in Thailand and sponsored gracious manners. Thais from elsewhere in the by the Australian International Development country popularly contend that the local language Assistance Bureau, could avoid such pre spoken in Chiang Mai is more melodious than conceptions. At its 1995 workshop, a handout the national Thai language. To many in Thailand, entitled, "Useful Information About Chiang Chiang Mai is all things good about Thai culture, Mai", told "Many lowland Thais regard the city the epitome of the Thai way oflife. as being a national Shangrila thanks to So pervasively has Chiang Mai been extolled beautiful women, distinctive festivals ...". [Asia that persons around the world envision the city Training Centre 1995, p. 6] in the same way. Even such a presumably Such views contrast markedly with those of unromanticizable observer as the American the nineteenth century, when Bangkok Thai Presbyterian missionary, Margaretta Wells, disdained Chiang Mai. To the people of the begins her 1963 guidebook to Chiang Mai with capital, Chiang Mii was a place of homely the statement that the city was "an altogether women who smoked heavily, chewed betel to enchanting place". [1963 p. 1] Later guidebooks excess, and ate so muchpa ha (fermented fish) were even more eloquent. One written in 1989 that they fouled the air. Moreover, these women evoked visions of Shangrila. of high odor were, if the description in old central Thai classics like Khun Chang Khun northern Thailand retains a charm that is hard to Phaen of Chiang Mai's lady, Nang Soi Fa, can express in words and indeed must be experienced be believed, were none too intelligent. -
Civil Society and Democratization
CIVIL SOCIETY AND Somchai DEMOCRATIZATION CIVIL SOCIETY AND Social Movements in Northeast Thailand SOMCHAI PHATHARATHANANUNTH DEMOCRATIZATION CIVIL SOCIETY AND This book is for anyone wondering whatever Social Movements in Northeast Thailand happened to Thailand’s vanished Marxist insurgents or interested to understand the forces behind the mass demonstrations of peasants that periodically descend on Bangkok. Specifically, the book investigates the struggle of an important social movement in Thailand, the Small Scale Farmers’ Assembly of Isan (SSFAI), and examines the role of civil society in the process of democratization. This first major work on the SSFAI demon- strates how civil society organizations in the form of social movements contribute to the demo- cratization process in the key areas of citizenship DEMOCRATIZATION rights. Moreover, the book also addresses two important themes in social movements research: the impacts of strategies and tactics on the outcomes of social movements, and the effect of organizational structure on movements’ goals and activities. A ‘sophisticated, well-researched and ex- tremely important contribution to Thai political studies’ (external reviewer) www.niaspress.dk SOMCHAI PHATHARATHANANUNTH Somchai_reprint-cover.indd 1 9/2/07 12:21:51 Somchai_prelims-reprint.fm Page i Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:19 PM CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRATIZATION Somchai_prelims-reprint.fm Page ii Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:19 PM NORDIC INSTITUTE OF ASIAN STUDIES MONOGRAPH SERIES 67. Asta Olesen: Islam and Politics in Afghanistan 68. Hans Antlöv: Exemplary Centre, Administrative Periphery 69. Arne Kalland: Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan 70. Weng Eang Cheong: The Hong Merchants of Canton 71. Christine Dobbin: Asian Entrepreneurial Minorities 72. -
Curriculum Vitae Katherine Ann Bowie I. Personal Ii
CURRICULUM VITAE KATHERINE ANN BOWIE Revised 11-21-15 Anthropology Department 1-608-262-2866 (office) 5462 Social Sciences Building 1-608-238-8150 (home) University of Wisconsin-Madison Fax: 1-608-265-4216 Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Email: [email protected] I. PERSONAL Birth: May 21, 1950, London, England. Citizenship: U.S. II. RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION. •Theoretical Interests: political anthropology, including political economy, nation-state formation, peasant political movements, rural electoral politics, agrarian class formation, social change; historical anthropology, including oral histories; Theravada Buddhism; gender and Buddhism; gender and politics. •Geographic Area: Southeast Asia, especially Thailand. •Languages: Central Thai, Northern Thai; Swiss-German, German (some Latin, French). III. FORMAL EDUCATION • 1988. Ph.D. University of Chicago (Anthropology). •1981. M.A. University of Chicago (Anthropology). •1974. Thai Language School, Bangkok, Thailand. • 1972. B.A. with Distinction. Stanford University (Major in Anthropology; Minor in Religious Studies). •Title of Theses: PhD: "Peasant Perspectives on the Political Economy ofthe Northern Thai Kingdom ofChiang Mai in the Nineteenth Century: Implications for the Understanding ofPeasant Political Expression." (450 pp). [Dissertation Committee: Ralph Nicholas (chair), Theda Skocpol, Valerio Valeri]. MA: "In the Wake ofthe Lords: A Historical Perspective on the Role of Irrigation in the Political Economy ofNorthern Thailand." (271 pp). IV. POSITIONS HELD •2001-. Professor, Department of Anthropology and Center for Southeast Asian Studies. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, Wisconsin. •2011-14. Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, Wisconsin. •2009-. Affiliated Faculty, Religious Studies. •2004-. Affiliated Faculty, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies •2004-. Affiliated Faculty, Land Tenure Center. •2003-. Affiliated Faculty, Global Studies Program. -
Mini Slums in Chiang Mai City: a Study of Family Growth and Housing Conditions
SEAPRAP RESEARCH REPORT NO. 69 MINI SLUMS IN CHIANG MAI CITY: A STUDY OF FAMILY GROWTH AND HOUSING CONDITIONS URAIVAN TAN-KIM-YONG Faculty of Social Sciences Chiangmai University Chiang Mai, Thailand June 1979 A report of research undertaken with the assistance of an award from the Southeast Asia Population Research Awards Program (SEAPRAP), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Republic of Singapore ARC HIV (an edited version) 54764 PERlODM j AKNLEDGNT It is my pleasure to acknowledge the full support of Th. Southeast Asia Population Research Award Program (SAPAP). I am indebted to Pedro D. flores and Wilfredo F. Arcs who siaiater the funds and give &aaistancø that kes it posoibJ. to finish this work. I as grateful to my husband, Songe.rm, for hie encouragement, hi. knowledge and persona]. recGrda on the history of the old families in Chiang Lai Cit7. I would lik, to .xpraia here my love and gratituøs to my beloved parents who anxiom.ly wait to see my success in the academic world. I am also indebted to Suwit Roonviasi, Kwsrichei Theithe, colleagues of mine fore their aasista. I b.lim that their tmiaiag and experience have been a great valu, in helping me to solve the $osos occring at all stages of this present study. (e of my friends, Jennifer Brown, helped me on editing the first two c*ptera. I do appreciate her a8si8tanco. A special "thank you" goes to my stndecta in the olaso el "Qity Planning" of September 1977. I do appreciate tMar wark and I sLso extønd thanks to Turn, Kirkaak and Ku]. -
NEW Title Page
“Light of A Northern Star: A ‘Foreign’ Concubine in the Siamese Palace, Princess Dara Rasami (1873-1933)” by Leslie Ann Woodhouse Woodhouse ~ Light of A Northern Star Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................. p. 1 Chapter 1. Becoming Lan Na: Constituting an Inland Constellation ..................................... 7 Appendix: Kings of Lan Na’s Chao Chet Ton Dynasty ...................................................... 63 Illustrations ............................................................................................................................ 64 Chapter 2. Into the Palace: Dara Rasami and Life in the Siamese Court ............................. 65 Illustrations ........................................................................................................................... 119 Chapter 3. Performing Lan Na: Dara Rasami and Ethnicity in the Siamese Court .......... 129 Illustrations .......................................................................................................................... 182 Chapter 4. After Bangkok: Dara Rasami and the Invention of Lan Na “Tradition” ....... 216 Illustrations ........................................................................................................................... 240 Chapter 5. Afterword: Problems of Post-Polygyny in Contemporary Thailand ............... 251 Bibliography Archives Consulted ............................................................................................................... -
The True History of Siam
Khmer Freedom’s Distribution Present An SLK Publication In TTHHEE TTRRUUEE HHIISSTTOORRYY OOFF SSIIAAMM SLK Publication Vietnamese Hidden Faces behind the Killing Fields TABLE OF CONTENTS ((1)1) WWHEREHERE WWEREERE SSIAMESEIAMESE FFROM?ROM?..............................................................................................2 ((2)2) SSIAMESEIAMESE CCOPIEDOPIED NNEARLYEARLY EEVERYTHINGVERYTHING FFROMROM KKHMERHMER ............................................11 LEESS APPSARASSARAS (NNYMPHESYMPHES CCÉLESTESÉLESTES)...................................................................................................17 The rioting against the Thailand's embassy : which operations, which targets ? ..........................21 Cambodian PM tells king to stay out of riots probe .......................................................................22 Cambodia and Thailand: One year later........................................................................................23 BIIASESASES OONN TTHEHE PPARTART OOFF TTHEHE THHAIAI MMEDIAEDIA AASIDESIDE, LLETET'S AADDRESSDDRESS TTHISHIS QQUESTIONUESTION:................................24 Cambodia and Thailand discuss cultural respect...........................................................................25 We'll never give in to pressure, says PM........................................................................................25 ((3)3) CCIVILIVIL WWARSARS AANDND EEXPANSIONISMXPANSIONISM OOFF SSIAMIAM.......................................................................27 NEEWW AGGEE -
Coversheet for Thesis in Sussex Research Online
A University of Sussex PhD thesis Available online via Sussex Research Online: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/ This thesis is protected by copyright which belongs to the author. This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the Author The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the Author When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given Please visit Sussex Research Online for more information and further details From Commissions to Commemoration: the Re-creation of King Chulalongkorn and His Court, and the Thai Monarchy through Westernised Art and Western Art Collection Volume One Eksuda Singhalampong Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Sussex May 2016 !iii UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX EKSUDA SINGHALAMPONG: CANDIDATE FOR DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (DPhil) FROM COMMISSIONS TO COMMEMORATION: THE RE-CREATION OF KING CHULALONGKORN AND HIS COURT, AND THE THAI MONARCHY THROUGH WESTERNISED ART AND WESTERN ART COLLECTION SUMMARY Official Thai history gives the iconic role of King Chulalongkorn as the civiliser of which is the theme underpinning my study. This thesis aims to complicate this narrative by investigating the historical specificity of Chulalongkorn’s visual representation operating with the mechanisms of westernisation. The study discusses how the King presented and represented his royal person and his regal power and how the King consequently changed and shaped Siam’s visual and material culture at the turn of the century. -
Forced Resettlement Campaigns in Northern Thailand During the Early Bangkok Period*
Volker Grabowsky FORCED RESETTLEMENT CAMPAIGNS IN NORTHERN THAILAND DURING THE EARLY BANGKOK PERIOD* 1. Introduction the resurgent Mon kingdom ofPegu. Numerous Mon were resettled in Upper Burma, others fled In pre-colonial indianized Southeast Asia the across the Salween into Tenasserim province control of manpower, not the conquest of land, (Martaban) or even sought shelter in Siamese was the crucial factor for establishing, territory. Fifteen years later, Burmese mal consolidating and strengthening state power. treatment of the Mon provoked a new exodus to Thai, Burmese and Cambodian chronicles provide ample evidence of how Southeast Asian • This article is a revised version of my paper rulers launched successful attacks against weaker presented at the "5th International Conference on Thai neighbours in order to seize large parts of the Studies-SOAS, London, July 1993." In a different population and to resettle the war captives in form, the article was first published in Oriens Extremus their own realm. At the same time, the victorious I (1994). I am indebted to Saraswadee Ongsakul side was very often content to establish a loose (Chiang Mai) and Aroonrut Wichienkeeo (Chiang Mai) tributary relationship with the former enemy who shared generously their profound knowledge and whose resources of manpower had been reduced. expertise in discussions of the contents of some The victors derived many benefits from this important sources. I am further obliged to Harald kind of traditional warfare in demographic, Hundius (Passau), Hermann Kulke (Kiel), Ronald political, economical and cultural terms. The Renard (Chiang Mai), and Baas Terwiel (Hamburg) losers, on the other hand, suffered severely from for making valuable suggestions on earlier drafts of massive depopulations resulting in the devas this article.