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ABSTRACT The prominent Thai scholar, Chatthip Natsupha, has gone from being a Marxist intellectua... more ABSTRACT The prominent Thai scholar, Chatthip Natsupha, has gone from being a Marxist intellectual in the 1970s to a cultural nationalist advocate of a genuine Thai essence which, he believes, is an antidote to the dominance of the Western neoliberal capitalism. His case is not an ...
Social Transformations: Journal of the Global South, 2016
Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation, 2011
Mapping: A New Technology of Space; Geo-Body, from Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Na... more Mapping: A New Technology of Space; Geo-Body, from Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation-The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation-Winichakul-Wiley Online Library
Duara/A Companion to Global Historical Thought, 2014
The Journal of Asian Studies, 2014
Let me begin with a conversation I had with the late David Wyatt of Cornell University, a promine... more Let me begin with a conversation I had with the late David Wyatt of Cornell University, a prominent historian of Thailand and the 1993 president of the AAS, at one of the AAS meetings in Boston. I asked Professor Wyatt, what was the question about Thai history he got most often from Thai colleagues? His answer was: 1)Was the execution of the king in 1782 by the founder of the current dynasty legitimate? If not, why did he do it?2)Was the death of another king in 1946 an accident, a suicide, or an assassination, and if it was the last one, who did it?
The Ambiguous Allure of the West, 2010
Numen, 2015
Contemporary identity in Thailand is prominently configured through an allegiance of reformed Bud... more Contemporary identity in Thailand is prominently configured through an allegiance of reformed Buddhism with the modern Thai state. What is not well understood, however, is the centrality of “comparative religion” to the construction of this naturalized religionationalist identity, for interreligious study in Siam has been an integral component of modern Thai identity since the mid-nineteenth century. First, the emergence of “religion” as an object of study in modern Thailand is explored here, in an effort to detail the genealogy of this field for the first time. The articulation of Thai religious identity is identified as a response to intellectual challenges from colonial influences, especially the reproofs of Buddhism by Christian missionaries and Orientalist scholarship on religion. Thai Buddhist intellectuals responded to these challenges by robustly countering that Theravada Buddhism was, in fact, superior to Christianity and other religions. Finally, I explore the contentions ...
Third World Quarterly, 2008
ABSTRACT The prominent Thai scholar, Chatthip Natsupha, has gone from being a Marxist intellectua... more ABSTRACT The prominent Thai scholar, Chatthip Natsupha, has gone from being a Marxist intellectual in the 1970s to a cultural nationalist advocate of a genuine Thai essence which, he believes, is an antidote to the dominance of the Western neoliberal capitalism. His case is not an ...
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 1995
Historical studies in Thailand have been closely related to the formation of the nation since the... more Historical studies in Thailand have been closely related to the formation of the nation since the late nineteenth century, and until recently the pattern of the past in this elitist craft changed but little. It presented a royal/national chronicle, a historiography modern in character but based upon traditional perceptions of the past and traditional materials. It was a collection of stories by and for the national elite celebrating their successful mission of building and protecting the country despite great difficulties, and promising a prosperous future. The plot and meaning of this melodramatic past have become a paradigm of historical discourse, making history an ideological weapon and a source of legitimation of the state.
The Journal of Asian Studies, 2000
The articles presented here grew out of a year-long discussion of the spatial dimensions of histo... more The articles presented here grew out of a year-long discussion of the spatial dimensions of historical and cultural change in various parts of Asia during the early modern and modern periods. Each essay engages the ways in which geographies—here defined as visual and verbal discourses about space—perform political and cultural work. That is, we examine how geographies in Asia were deployed strategically, whether to map, narrate, frame, relocate, or dislocate particular places, regions, “homelands,” or nation-spaces. In recent centuries, these Asian geographies have necessarily coexisted with Western (principally European) geographies, whether in the colonial or postcolonial context. As these essays show, such coexistence has taken many forms, from conflict to emulation to apparent disinterest.
The Journal of Asian Studies, 1994
... on Thailand to take such an un-critical stance, as it has been common practice among both ...... more ... on Thailand to take such an un-critical stance, as it has been common practice among both ... to the throne of King Vajiravudh (r.1910-25) who "began moving all the policy levers of ... Department which one would expect to find within their archival files were either missing or had ...
questia.com, 1997
... aware of its virtue. The essence of Thainess has been well preserved up to the present time d... more ... aware of its virtue. The essence of Thainess has been well preserved up to the present time despite the fact that Siam has been transformed greatly toward moderni-zation in the past hundred years. Like other nationalist discourse ...
questia.com, 1997
... aware of its virtue. The essence of Thainess has been well preserved up to the present time d... more ... aware of its virtue. The essence of Thainess has been well preserved up to the present time despite the fact that Siam has been transformed greatly toward moderni-zation in the past hundred years. Like other nationalist discourse ...
Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2008
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 01436590801931520, Apr 1, 2008
ABSTRACT The prominent Thai scholar, Chatthip Natsupha, has gone from being a Marxist intellectua... more ABSTRACT The prominent Thai scholar, Chatthip Natsupha, has gone from being a Marxist intellectual in the 1970s to a cultural nationalist advocate of a genuine Thai essence which, he believes, is an antidote to the dominance of the Western neoliberal capitalism. His case is not an ...
Social Transformations: Journal of the Global South, 2016
Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation, 2011
Mapping: A New Technology of Space; Geo-Body, from Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Na... more Mapping: A New Technology of Space; Geo-Body, from Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation-The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation-Winichakul-Wiley Online Library
Duara/A Companion to Global Historical Thought, 2014
The Journal of Asian Studies, 2014
Let me begin with a conversation I had with the late David Wyatt of Cornell University, a promine... more Let me begin with a conversation I had with the late David Wyatt of Cornell University, a prominent historian of Thailand and the 1993 president of the AAS, at one of the AAS meetings in Boston. I asked Professor Wyatt, what was the question about Thai history he got most often from Thai colleagues? His answer was: 1)Was the execution of the king in 1782 by the founder of the current dynasty legitimate? If not, why did he do it?2)Was the death of another king in 1946 an accident, a suicide, or an assassination, and if it was the last one, who did it?
The Ambiguous Allure of the West, 2010
Numen, 2015
Contemporary identity in Thailand is prominently configured through an allegiance of reformed Bud... more Contemporary identity in Thailand is prominently configured through an allegiance of reformed Buddhism with the modern Thai state. What is not well understood, however, is the centrality of “comparative religion” to the construction of this naturalized religionationalist identity, for interreligious study in Siam has been an integral component of modern Thai identity since the mid-nineteenth century. First, the emergence of “religion” as an object of study in modern Thailand is explored here, in an effort to detail the genealogy of this field for the first time. The articulation of Thai religious identity is identified as a response to intellectual challenges from colonial influences, especially the reproofs of Buddhism by Christian missionaries and Orientalist scholarship on religion. Thai Buddhist intellectuals responded to these challenges by robustly countering that Theravada Buddhism was, in fact, superior to Christianity and other religions. Finally, I explore the contentions ...
Third World Quarterly, 2008
ABSTRACT The prominent Thai scholar, Chatthip Natsupha, has gone from being a Marxist intellectua... more ABSTRACT The prominent Thai scholar, Chatthip Natsupha, has gone from being a Marxist intellectual in the 1970s to a cultural nationalist advocate of a genuine Thai essence which, he believes, is an antidote to the dominance of the Western neoliberal capitalism. His case is not an ...
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 1995
Historical studies in Thailand have been closely related to the formation of the nation since the... more Historical studies in Thailand have been closely related to the formation of the nation since the late nineteenth century, and until recently the pattern of the past in this elitist craft changed but little. It presented a royal/national chronicle, a historiography modern in character but based upon traditional perceptions of the past and traditional materials. It was a collection of stories by and for the national elite celebrating their successful mission of building and protecting the country despite great difficulties, and promising a prosperous future. The plot and meaning of this melodramatic past have become a paradigm of historical discourse, making history an ideological weapon and a source of legitimation of the state.
The Journal of Asian Studies, 2000
The articles presented here grew out of a year-long discussion of the spatial dimensions of histo... more The articles presented here grew out of a year-long discussion of the spatial dimensions of historical and cultural change in various parts of Asia during the early modern and modern periods. Each essay engages the ways in which geographies—here defined as visual and verbal discourses about space—perform political and cultural work. That is, we examine how geographies in Asia were deployed strategically, whether to map, narrate, frame, relocate, or dislocate particular places, regions, “homelands,” or nation-spaces. In recent centuries, these Asian geographies have necessarily coexisted with Western (principally European) geographies, whether in the colonial or postcolonial context. As these essays show, such coexistence has taken many forms, from conflict to emulation to apparent disinterest.
The Journal of Asian Studies, 1994
... on Thailand to take such an un-critical stance, as it has been common practice among both ...... more ... on Thailand to take such an un-critical stance, as it has been common practice among both ... to the throne of King Vajiravudh (r.1910-25) who "began moving all the policy levers of ... Department which one would expect to find within their archival files were either missing or had ...
questia.com, 1997
... aware of its virtue. The essence of Thainess has been well preserved up to the present time d... more ... aware of its virtue. The essence of Thainess has been well preserved up to the present time despite the fact that Siam has been transformed greatly toward moderni-zation in the past hundred years. Like other nationalist discourse ...
questia.com, 1997
... aware of its virtue. The essence of Thainess has been well preserved up to the present time d... more ... aware of its virtue. The essence of Thainess has been well preserved up to the present time despite the fact that Siam has been transformed greatly toward moderni-zation in the past hundred years. Like other nationalist discourse ...
Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2008