»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)

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.
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In the present social and cultural transformation of South Thailand's cultural politics, ideologies involving the home and family provide the cultural codes in dramas of the state, and social and religious movements. This work covers micropolitics, and the making of class, culture and space.
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Product details

ISBN
9783933127518
Published
2002-09-27
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Weight
288 gr
Height
225 mm
Width
148 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
204

Biographical note

Alexander Horstmann ist Fellow am Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen.