Finding Their Voice: Northeastern Villagers and the Thai State

ISBN-13: 9786162150746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 260 str.

Charles F. Keyes

Opis

This book traces the evolution of the rural, Lao-speaking people of northeastern Thailand, now over a third of the nation's population, from a traditional peasantry into ?cosmopolitan? villagers who are actively shaping Thai politics. The electoral successes of the Thai Rak Thai/Pheu Thai Party in the early twenty-first century and the strong support given to the Red-Shirt movement appear to have finally given the cosmopolitan villagers of northeastern Thailand a continuing voice in the nation's political process.