... Chapter 3 analyzes how independent filmmakers such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul make use of the Buddhist notion of impermanence to interrogate the notions of social wounding and recompense that inform liberal discourse on minoritarian personhood. The analysis of Apichatpong’s Tropical Malady...

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... notions of impermanence thread through and tie together the domains of sexuality, policy, and cultural production in contemporary Thailand. It reviews how women’s and queer sexualities are currently overdetermined by notions of negativity in social and cultural policy, psychiatry, and religious discourses...