New Directions in Thai Studies / / edited by Preedee Hongsaton, Ying-kit Chan

• Autore: Hongsaton Preedee
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2025.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 pages)
• Disciplina: 959
• Soggetto topico: Southeast Asia - History; Asia - History; Historiography; History - Methodology; Imperialism; History, Modern; History of Southeast Asia; Asian History; Historiography and Method; Imperialism and Colonialism; Modern History
• Altri autori: ChanYing-kit
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- Part I. New Histories -- 2. Historiography of Thai Nationalism: A Critique of Debates over Lost Territory -- 3. Rethinking National Defense during the Reign of King Chulalongkorn -- 4. Papered Forestry: Leases, Laws, and the Enactment of Forest Administration -- 5. Ordinary Archives, Fragmented Scenes: Making Public Queer History at Museum Siam -- Part II. New Disciplines -- 6. Religion in Transition: From Buddhism to New Religious Movements and Invisible Religions in Thailand -- 7. Cultural Strategy as Status-Anxiety Management: Evidence from Thailand’s Cultural Relations with Japan during the Pacific War -- 8. Sensitizing Thai Studies: (Multi)sensory Approaches to Thai History and Culture -- Part III. New Comparisons -- 9. Crematoria: King Rama V’s “Strategy of Hygiene” and Western Hygiene Reform in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 10. Thailand and Japan’s Comparative Centralization and Economic Development, 1850-World War I -- 11. George Orwell in Thai Political Landscape: The Global Texts and the Local Reception -- 12. Ideological Dichotomies: Thai Historiography in Representing Indochina during the Cold War Period.
• Sommario/riassunto: “This pathbreaking collection by newer generations of Thai studies scholars analyses key historical and cultural contexts in modern Thailand, emphasising how the country’s modern transformations have been prompted by the challenges presented by imperial and neo-imperial regimes in Southeast Asia.” —Peter A. Jackson, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University “The days that Thai studies is the business of the Western scholars gazing upon Thailand are over. This volume is evidence of the increasing significance of “home scholars” in Thai studies and the range of how they engage with the dominant views on various issues in English, both radically and otherwise.” —Thongchai Winichakul, Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison This pathbreaking collection analyses pivotal historical contexts and cultural settings in modern Thailand. The analytical frame of postcolonial studies challenges conservative narratives that Siam/Thailand was “never colonised”, highlighting how the country’s modern transformations have been responses to the challenges presented by imperial and neo-imperial regimes in Southeast Asia. This book brings together many scholars of Thailand whose innovative studies have not previously been available to an international academic audience. This collection showcases the important work that newer generations of researchers are undertaking in Thailand and other Asian countries. Preedee Hongsaton is a Research Fellow at Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Sweden. He is currently a member of the collaborative research programme Imperial Expansion and Intercultural Diplomacy: Treaty-making in Southeast Asia, c.1750−1920. Ying-kit Chan is an Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. He was formerly a research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University. His latest book is Southeast Asia in China: Historical Entanglements and Contemporary Engagements (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023).
• Titolo autorizzato: New Directions in Thai Studies
• ISBN: 3-031-83860-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911016079003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II