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SUMMARY:Understanding the Emergence of Political Villagers and State’s Counteraction in Northeast Thailand
LOCATION:Room 1.308
DESCRIPTION:This panel examines the transformation of politics of the villa
 gers in rural areas in Northeast Thailand (Isan), from multiple viewpoints 
 including motivations, group identity, linkage to politicians or political 
 parties, livelihood ecology, and their interaction with the military govern
 ment. The main focus is the ‘Red-Shirt’ movement in Isan. Existing studies 
 so far have argued about the socio-economic backgrounds of the Red Shirt pa
 rticipants in somehow generalized ways claiming that they are a newly emerg
 ing lower middle class engaged with commercial agriculture or small busines
 s, who is much benefited by the policies of the Thaksin administration. In 
 this panel, in-depth examination of how the villagers did/not become ‘Red’ 
 and how they have been maintaining their ‘redness’ until now.\n\nFour paper
 s in this paper take different methodological perspectives on the issues. F
 ujita’s anthropological study compares how environmental diversities in dif
 ferent geographical areas affected people’s economic and, hence, political 
 preferences. Viengrat analyzes the transformation of Isan citizens by compa
 ring politicians' narratives of Isan with those of other regions. Saowanee’
 s paper employs linguistic methods to examine how ordinary Red Shirt activi
 sts maintain their political identity. Puangthong examines the impact of mi
 litary’s use of the Cold War-era methods to penetrate its control and influ
 ence in Isan area.
URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/understanding-the-emergence-of-political-villagers-and-states-counteraction-in-northeast-thailand
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