These articles seem to have disappeared from the Bangkok Post.
Apologies that neither of us have had time to post in detail on the latest on Thailand from Wikileaks. Please treat this as an open thread for links, comments and analysis.
Review of MisallianceKeith Weller Taylor argues that this new book is thoughtful, lucid, original, analytical, and readable
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Review of Thailand’s Hidden WorkforceInga Gruß reviews a book about the work conditions of Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand at this time of immense change.
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Review of Gender, Emotions and Labour MarketsSri Ranjani Mei Hua reviews a book dealing with experiences of women in Southeast Asia.
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Review of Authority of InfluenceScholarly treatments of gender in Myanmar, past or present, remain scarce. Jessica Harriden’s book thus fills a gap in our understanding of an important and controversial topic.
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Review of The King in ExileDonald M. Seekins argues that this book is the story of a dynasty that belongs truly to Burma’s past.
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Review of Buddhist FuryThis book explores the relationship between religion and violence in far southern Thailand, where Buddhist monks are a marginalized local minority.
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Review of Revisiting Rural PlacesRevisiting Rural Places should become an essential reference text for researchers who work on social, cultural, political and economic change in Asia.
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Review of The Institutional ImperativeDe-agrarianisation often isn’t very pretty, but economic disparity may well be the price to be paid for pursuing it as slowly as Thailand has over the past 50 years.
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Review of Imagining Gay ParadiseThe creation of make-shift, idiosyncratic queer paradises provides shelter, community, and belonging for many who have refused to fit into standard narratives of Southeast Asia.
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Review of The Fate of Rural HellThe models of eroticism and faith in the Hell Garden have been left behind by the robust urban bourgeois consumerist culture increasingly prominent across contemporary Thai society.
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Review of Revolution InterruptedQuestioning received notions of revolution, this book offers a passionate and rigorous reconsideration of the period in Thailand between October 1973 and October 1976.
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Review of Land and LoyaltyRead More
Review of The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical MonkRead More
Review of Saying the UnsayableRead More
Review of Economic Disparity and of Economic TransitionRead More
Here is a screen grab of one of the articles. Thanks to a reader.
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Not quite , try this link,
http://www.bangkokpost.com/print/211410/
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full story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/172121?INTCMP=SRCH
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Here are links to the three cables released:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/176996
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/79101
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/172121?CMP=twt_gu
It’s interesting that The Nation has already moved to quash talk of the cables, as it’s just an old conspiracy theory anyway: http://bit.ly/i8AHSc
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Don’t these cables disprove Ji Ungkaporn’s theory about the relative balance of power between the Military and The Palace, in particular between the Military and His Majesty ?
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James might have added that the Nation didn’t even mention the players mentioned. The Nation really does get grubby when they think that they are on a war footing.
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The whole country, and perhaps the whole world, is now digesting the implication of such an earth-shaking revelation , which is made public more than four years after the actual event. The real tsunami will come in a few days’ time.
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orwellian (c2) – while that link worked earlier this evening (Thai time, that is), a few hours later it seems to have evaporated…..
Noteworthy that The Nation’s ultra-sanitised report manages to avoid any mention of the monarchy – unless you count referring to Thailand as “the Kingdom” – but then those guys don’t need LM laws to tell them the way to go…..
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Looks like this story has been removed from/ by the BP.
I can’t find it anywhere.
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I smiled that someone got ThaiVisa Forum to send a breaking news with subject:
“AFP: Thailand’s Queen Sirikit accused of backing 2006 military coup”
to all its 40,000 members and then – like BKK Post – removed the article immediately.
Was this an accident or done on purpose?
And i think we can see a lot of empty walls in many homes pretty soon.
Smart vendors should now order a lot of Chulalongkorn pictures for the replacement.
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Not surprised the online copies are removed – the diplomats must all be on extreme OT to get that done.
Hmm… I think I may still have the SCMP copy somewhere in my trash bin. Maybe I should retrieve it and cut out that article…
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Just want to add that as a personal opinion, the 2006 coup really could not have had happened without the requisite patronage, due not only to TRT strong election results but also the rather crude maneuvering by ex-PM Thaksin to try to consolidate power to deal with the privy council. Using up what is left of the King’s hardearned and hardworn glamour was really the only other weapon left the elites could leverage against the younger and vibrant TRT and its wittier and more sly leader Thaksin. And in doing so, that shiny golden glamour had been much dulled and tarnished – hardly something that people who professed their love and loyalty for their monarch should do.
That it was the Queen behind the coup is hardly earth shattering in truth, merely in publicness of the announcement. Afterall, an image had to be maintained, even if many other already knew the “truth”. The King at the end of the day sat on the throne that can do no wrong, and what the King wants, another had to do and execute and if necessary, take the fall so that again the painstakingly polished image can be maintain its golden legend “pretentiously” untarnished.
My mother said: There is no citizen in the world that love and rever their King more than the rural Thai farmers. But the King do not love them back equally. That the King should love his people is not a necessity, but it is a tragedy in the face of such devotion grassroots supporters had for him.
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