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LUND UNIVERSITY PO Box 117 221 00 Lund +46 46-222 00 00 Framing the Subjects Human Rights and Photography in Contemporary Thai History KARIN ZACKARI JOINT FACULTIES OF HUMANITIES AND THEOLOGY | LUND UNIVERSITY Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology 213166 Department of History Human Rights Studies 789189 ISBN 978-91-89213-16-6 9 Framing the Subjects Human Rights and Photography in Contemporary Thai History Karin Zackari DOCTORAL DISSERTATION with due permission of the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University, Sweden. To be defended at LUX C121 on 25 September 2020 at 13.15. 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(ebook) 4-16)(-1!9)()1&:)(-%"4:'. 71(#1-8)45-6:71( For my children, who are the future. "%&/)2*216)165 List of Original Articles iii Note on Thai language and transliteration iv Acknowledgements v Introduction 1 Aims and Scope 2 State Violence, Nationalism, and Human Rights as Dissensus Politics 4 From Sitthi to Human Rights 10 Visual Power and Violence 15 The Disposition of the Thesis 19 1. Thailand and Human Rights Histories 21 Cold War Authoritarianism and Mass Social Movements 22 Political Violence and the First Human Rights Groups 28 Human Rights as an Anti-imperialist Language 35 The End of the Cold War and Towards a Democratic Narrative 42 2. Sources, Method, and Methodology 45 In Search for an Ethics of “Looking” 46 Collecting Source Material 50 The Role of 14 October 1973 and 6 October 1976 55 Analytical Method 58 The “Event of Photography” as Ontological Position 65 3. Photography and Human Rights in History and Memory Production 69 The Political Power of Photography 70 Photography in History and Memory of Human Rights 77 The Human Rights Archive 84 Summaries of the Articles 89 Article I 89 Article II 89 Article III 90 Article IV 91 References 92 The Original Articles 105 List of Original Articles This thesis is based on the following publications, referred to by their Roman numerals. I. Zackari, K. “Writing Rights into Thailand's History with Photography.” Thammasat Journal of History 2, no. 1 (2015): 201-47. II. Zackari, K. “Violence on the Periphery of the Thai State and Nationhood.” In State Terror, State Violence: Global Perspectives, edited by Bettina Koch, 71-92. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2016. III. Zackari, K. H. “Visualizing Impunity: Photography and State Violence in Thailand.” Trans-Asia Photography Review 10, no.1 (2019). http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0010.105 IV. Zackari, K. H. “Photography in the History of the 14 October 1973 and 6 October 1976 Events.” Accepted for publication in South East Asia Research.