Thailand’s Crisis: A “Carnival of Reaction”
Giles Ji Ungpakorn (Left Turn)
Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
The term “Carnival of Reaction” was first used by the Irish Marxist James Connolly when referring to the defeat of socialist politics in Ireland and the rise of reactionary Catholicism and reactionary Protestantism either side of the partition border.Thailand’s political [...]
Ji Ungpakorn on the “carnival of reaction”
July 2nd, 2008 by Andrew Walker · 60 Comments
Revisiting the rural constitution
July 2nd, 2008 by Andrew Walker · 1 Comment
Earlier this year, I published a paper examining Thailand’s “rural consitution” (walker-2008.pdf). The paper documented the local political values that inform electoral decision making in a rural district of Chiang Mai province. It was a deliberate attempt to counter the commonly expressed view that electoral support for Thaksin was illegitimate because it was based on the financial mobilisation of gullible and [...]
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