Finding Their Voice: Northeastern Villagers and the Thai State

Type

Book

Authors

Charles F. Keyes

ISBN 10

6162150747

ISBN 13

9786162150746

Tags

Asia, Cultural, Anthropology

Description

This book traces the evolution of the rural, Lao-speaking people of northeastern Thailand, now over a third of the nation’s population, from a traditional peasantry into “cosmopolitan” villagers who are actively shaping Thai politics. The electoral successes of the Thai Rak Thai/Pheu Thai Party in the early twenty-first century and the strong support given to the Red-Shirt movement appear to have finally given the cosmopolitan villagers of northeastern Thailand a continuing voice in the nation’s political process. - from Amzon

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