...Benjamin Tausig During ten weeks of antigovernment protest in spring 2010, the Thai military used physical and psychological tactics, including coercive broadcasting of music and sound, to combat demonstrations in Bangkok. Before a violent crackdown in May, protesters and soldiers spent ten weeks...

... against which Thai nationalism was to be defined and developed. The situation of the ethnic Chinese was not unlike the unfortunate position the Jewish Diaspora found themselves in in Europe in the late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. This line of explanation, however, is not only outdated...

...Sudarat Musikawong The visual artwork produced about Thai contemporary political trauma constitutes a “trauma art” expressing a politics of loss—loss of life, loss of history, and loss of leftist memory. While much of the literature on 1970s violence and traumatic memory in Thailand has focused...

...Rhacel Salazar Parreñas; Hung Cam Thai; Rachel Silvey The article provides a theoretical overview of the study of the commodification of intimacy in Asia, specifically charting a framework for understanding its institutionalization. It introduces the concept of “intimate industries,” meaning...

...Arnika Fuhrmann This article examines contemporary Thai artist Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook's video work on death since 1997. Investigating Araya's willed, long-term artistic history of intimacy and exchange with the dead, the article focuses not on the artwork's relation to mourning but rather on how...

...Elena Shih This article is interested in why and how Thailand functions as a pivotal destination for US human-trafficking rescue projects, and it situates transnational antitrafficking endeavors within Thai political and economic history. Based on ethnographic participant observation of the global...

... of the Thai Criminal Code; the logic of the courts which convicted them; and the public discourse surrounding both trials. Developing sedition as a lens of comparison and a strategy of analysis, their actions are examined as transgressive in three intersecting and overlapping registers: law, dissent in excess...

..., discovered that her elderly husband was sleeping with her young, live-in Thai maid, she was outraged. “In his eyes I am worth less than a maid. But he is worth less than a rabbit. At least a rabbit does not eat the grass near its own nest...

... in Thailand. He has examined the relationships between rights, identity, and the state in Thai- land, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, and he is a well-known critic of elite development projects, including large-scale hydropower and logging. His...

..., there has been little systematic analysis of sexual identities outside of “sex-role the- ory” in Thailand, nor has there been any sustained attempt to situate Thai concepts of bodily order in a historical context. In general, the ethno...

... and the Sonic Broadcasts of the Thai Military” creates a term he calls “sonic culture of protest” or “sonic campaign of crowd control.” Simply put, rather than placing the broadcast into the politics of Red Shirt protests against the Thai military...

... on the dilemmas posed in and through positions as a register of contemporary discourse about contemporaneity with a lengthy and exemplary excerpt from an interview between Celia Lowe and Thai scholar- activist Chayan Vaddhanaphuti...

... ). Photographs and film footage of the massacre remain scattered between the Associated Press, various newspapers, and university archives (both Thai and foreign) until they were archived at Thammasat University, Cornell University, the University of Wisconsin, the Australia National Archives, and online...

... Hongsakula, Miss Universe 1965, marking the triumphant return to Bangkok of the first suc- cessful Thai beauty queen, shot by the same pioneer photographer? Along with beauty queens and Bond girl pinups, H. S. Lim shot calen- dar girls, fashion shoots, bathing beauties, and all kinds of popular images...

.... Identifying comparisons internal to a film (or any text) is one method for understanding the effects or the possibilities of such dialectics.10 Not all comparisons in the two films, however, are dialectical. In particular, in Village People Radio Show it is the Thai- language radio show, a shadow theater...

... Administration, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. She is the author of a book titled The Hidden Meaning of the Democracy Monument of Thailand (2006). She obtained a PhD in Thai Studies from Chulalongkorn University in 2011. Her research focuses on postcolonialism in Southeast Asia, cultural studies, film...

... identity.” So, strategies for drawing ethnic boundaries are gender specific, but wives and husbands conceive their own subject forms, and not in relation to one another, since wives are female in relation to “lazy” female Thai sex workers...

..., rapacious widow ghosts visit Thai construction workers, causing several deaths and terrifying villagers in the area whence the workers hailed. In theatrical acts of civil disobedience, Thai democracy protestors conjure the spirits of those who have...

...-Economic Review (2010). Sudarat Musikawong is assistant professor of sociology at Siena College. She has published work on independent Thai film and video and is currently working on projects on gendered memories of state violence...

... . “ Oceans Unbounded: Transversing Asia across ‘Area Studies.’ ” Japan Focus , 17 April . apjjf.org/-Barbara-Watson-Andaya/2410/article.html . Anderson Benedict . 1978 . “ Studies of the Thai State: The State of Thai Studies .” In The State of Thai Studies , edited by Ayal Eliezer B...