Local wisdom - in its various incarnations, and political guises - will remain a focus for this blog as we try to examine politics, economics and agriculture throughout rural Southeast Asia. A flurry of stories about “local wisdom” have dominated Thai and English-language media over the past weeks. Andrew and I will be providing some more commentary on this issue in the next little while. Today the Bangkok Post carried an illustrative piece on a local response to inadequate state provision of warnings for flash-floods It is worth a read.
Being Wise and Local Lives
June 25th, 2006 by Nicholas Farrelly · 1 Comment
Tags: Thailand
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1 New Mandala » The coup and self-sufficiency // Sep 24, 2006 at 10:03 am
[...] Specifying familiarity with the King’s ideas on economic development is a different matter altogether. To my eye, it is much more problematic. Here at New Mandala we have often written about “self-sufficiency”. In the context of Andrew’s earlier comments on future strategies for left(ish) activist-academics in the post-coup environment, Sophon’s proclamation (however fanciful it may actually be) is a sign that “self-sufficiency” could become a new battleground. [...]
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