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The Wheel of Crisis in Thailand : A Special edition of the Cultural Anthropology journal focusing on Thailand

ESSENTIAL READING — Special edition of the Cultural Anthropology journal focusing on Thailand, with articles by David Streckfuss, Thongchai Winichakul, Aim Sinpeng, Kevin Hewison, Pavin Chachavalpongpun, Duncan McCargo, Claudio Sopranzetti and others.

The Wheel of Crisis in Thailand
by Ben Tausig, Claudio Sopranzetti, Felicity Aulino and Eli Elinoff

For decades, Thailand has been entangled in a cycle of political turmoil that oscillates between elections, street protests, and coups both military and judicial. Although this dynamic has dominated in Thailand since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932, what we term the “wheel of crisis” has increased its rotational speed since the 1997 Asian economic collapse. This Hot Spot series inquires into the underlying conditions of Thailand's recent political upheavals, with sections focusing on legal and political stuctures (Hewison, Haberkorn, Streckfuss, Sinpeng, Chachavalpongpun, and Winichakul), social divisions and citizenship (Mills, Elinoff, McCargo, and Arafat Bin Mohamad), the turning of civil society against democracy (Phatharathananunth, and Sae Chua), and larger structure questions (Tausig, Sopranzetti, and Aulino).
Posts in This Series

Introduction: The Wheel of Crisis in Thailand
by Ben Tausig, Claudio Sopranzetti, Eli Elinoff and Felicity Aulino

Judicial Politicization as Political Conservatism
by Kevin Hewison

Article 17, a Totalitarian Movement, and a Military Dictatorship
by Tyrell Haberkorn

The End of the Endless Exception?: Time Catches Up With Dictatorship in Thailand
by David Streckfuss

The Cyber Coup
by Aim Sinpeng

Academic Freedom Under Siege
by Pavin Chachavalpongpun

Thai "Royalist Democracy": From Nineteen Eighty-Four to The Great Dictator”
by Thongchai Winichakul

Questioning Thailand’s Rural-Urban Divide
by Mary Beth Mills

Like Everyone Else
by Eli Elinoff

Double Trouble: Thailand's Two Souths, Thailand's Two Conflicts
by Duncan McCargo

Red Shirts, Yellow Shirts, Same Difference
by Muhammad Arafat Bin Mohammad

Civil Society Against Democracy
by Somchai Phatharathananunth

Revisiting “People’s Politics”
by Bencharat Sae Chua

Party Anthems
by Ben Tausig

Political Legitimacy in Thailand
by Claudio Sopranzetti

Hierarchy and the Embodiment of Change
by Felicity Aulino

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