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... Chapter 8 examines protracted statelessness among highlanders in northern Thailand, a context of ostensibly stable citizenship law and rationalized bureaucracy. By coupling intensive ethnographic research with extensive survey data, Amanda Flaim locates the reproduction of statelessness...

... Blackness queerness Thailand cosmopolitanism ...

... Chapter 5 homes in on Blackness and queerness in Thailand during the GI era. American Blackness was new to Thailand, and the identity category called “gay” did not exist until 1965. Both Blackness and gayness were introduced and negotiated in Thailand anew at this time and became something...

... necolonialism development Thailand Cold War ...

... Thailand homosexuality Apichatpong Weerasethakul impermanence publicity ...

... identity documents sovereignty statelessness Thailand ethnic minorities ...

... Thailand Buddhist melancholia Nang Nak feminist Buddhism agency ...

... southern Thailand Islam documentary Buddhist-Muslim coexistence interethnic intimacy ...

... Chapter 2 turns to Thailand in the 1950s. Thailand’s development during this decade was marked by deference to the United States, which was behaving more and more like a neocolonial power, both influencing and financing Thailand’s growth. Among the new features of Bangkok were bars and roads...

... Chapter 4 covers the period 1965–75 in Thailand, broadly known in Thailand as the American era or GI era. This was a period of transnational encounter, as American soldiers on rest and recuperation (R&R), among many others, began traveling to Thailand, in essence as tourists. These Americans...

... of emergency since 2004 in Thailand’s three southern Muslim-majority provinces. The analysis gauges the critical potential of interethnic intimacies in a situation in which violence is continuously perpetrated by a central state that defines itself as Buddhist. The coda thereby considers yet another...