William A. Callahan - Imagining Democracy Reading "The Events o
| Schrijver: | William A. Callahan |
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| Titel: | Imagining Democracy Reading "The Events of May" in Thailand |
| ISBN: | 9789813055643 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Uitgever: | Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |
| Bijzonderheden: | Goed, 1998, Paperback, 199p |
| Prijs: | € 20,00 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 4,50 (binnen Nederland) |
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This book is a collection of stories about the events of May 1992, which were told as part of a wide discussion and debate about \"democracy\" in Thailand. It was not written as a search for the essential truth about the May massacre as to see how these discourses shape our understanding of the workings of politics -- and thus produce truths about Thai politics. The author argues that much of the meaning of the stories comes not from the facts themselves, but from the discursive economies of the text, how the text was produced and exchanged as a social activity. This narrative approach to Thai politics is timely because the events of May 1992 were the first popular movement to follow the disintegration of the Soviet Union, which in turn constituted a crisis for social science that relied so heavily on the bipolar methodology that attended the bipolar world-view of the Cold War.\n
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