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Record Nr.

UNISA996308795403316

Autore

Horstmann Alexander

Titolo

Class, culture and space : the construction and shaping of communal space in south Thailand / / Alexander Horstmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

3-8394-0051-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Kultur und soziale Praxis

Disciplina

959.304

Soggetti

Middle class

Social history

Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    i  Preface    v  Preface and Acknowledgement    ix  Contents    xiii  Introduction. Visions, Claims and Utopias    1  Chapter 1. Locals and Cosmopolitans in Southern Thailand    15  Chapter 2. The Making of Consumers in Southern Thailand    41  Chapter 3. Self-Affirmation, Globalization and Cultural Distinction in Songkla and Patani    61  Chapter 4. Community Media and the Politics of Nostalgia    87  Chapter 5. Morals Matter: Cultural Politics Compared    113  Conclusion: Debating Morality and the Nation in Southern Thailand    137  Notes    153  Bibliography    161  Backmatter    176

Sommario/riassunto

In the present social and cultural transformation of South Thailand's cultural politics, ideologies involving the family, gender and home provide the cultural codes in social dramas of the state, the media and social and religious movements. This study looks at micropolitics and the nesting of the political action of everyday life in larger, ultimately global structures of power. Exploring the making of class, culture and space, the production and consumption of culture is understood as work which involves the constant negotiation of boundaries.

»As the literature on Southern Thailand is very limited, the book is a welcome source of information about the cultural and societal situation in this region. The study can be recommended to readers interested in



detailed regional information about Southern Thailand.«  Patrick Ziegenhals, Internationales Asienforum, 11 (2004)