Democracy and National Identity in Thailand (Routledgecurzon Researchon Southeast Asia)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
1 Introduction......Page 10
Notes......Page 13
2 Making democracy mean something......Page 14
Political development and order......Page 15
Hegemony......Page 23
Government......Page 26
Towards the idea of democrasubjection......Page 29
Notes......Page 35
3 Before the doctrine......Page 42
Capitalism, the nation and the possibility of citizenship......Page 43
Constitutions, politics and the new state......Page 48
Democracy and citizenship in the post-revolutionary period......Page 53
Citizens’ manuals......Page 55
Conclusion......Page 59
Notes......Page 61
4 Developmental democracy......Page 69
Developmental democracy......Page 73
The local administration department and statist democratic discourse......Page 74
Background to LAD......Page 76
LAD democracy......Page 78
Manual democracy......Page 84
Another liberalism......Page 90
Conclusion......Page 91
Notes......Page 93
Interludes: from ‘democratic socialism’ to liberal democracy......Page 101
Political openings, ideological closings......Page 105
Accounting for the change......Page 110
Freedom with chains: military responses to communism and parliamentary democracy......Page 114
LAD: security and democracy......Page 120
Writing LAD democracy......Page 122
Conclusion......Page 127
Notes......Page 128
6 Citizen King......Page 138
Renewing the nation/renewing the monarchy......Page 139
Towards national ideology once more......Page 145
Towards national identity: to be a democratic Thai......Page 153
The hegemonic work of the NIB......Page 156
Notes......Page 158
7 New times, new constitution......Page 164
Senior doctors and white swans......Page 167
Poised for reform......Page 170
Input/output and the people’s constitution......Page 176
The conservatives cave in......Page 177
In summary......Page 184
Notes......Page 186
8 Liberalism, civil society and new projects of subjection......Page 193
Thai liberalism: between society, the state and security......Page 194
The liberal engagement: developing political institutions......Page 201
Institutions and planning democracy......Page 206
Liberal mouthpieces......Page 209
Liberal civic education and civil society......Page 212
Liberal democrasubjection......Page 214
Notes......Page 215
9 Rethinking the nation in times of crisis......Page 224
NGOs, rights and development......Page 226
From radicalism to reform......Page 233
Socializing political reform, mitigating the economic crisis......Page 239
The Forces of the Land Forum......Page 242
Culture and democracy: a campaign......Page 246
Liberalism, communitarianism and possible futures......Page 248
A communitarianism for a liberal future......Page 250
Notes......Page 252
10 Final comments......Page 261
Select bibliography......Page 264
Newspapers......Page 271
Index......Page 272