Bibliograph

Uneasy military encounters, the imperial politics of counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand, Ruth Streicher

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Uneasy military encounters, the imperial politics of counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand, Ruth Streicher

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Uneasy military encounters

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Ruth Streicher

Sub title

the imperial politics of counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand

Summary

Uneasy Military Encounters presents a historically and theoretically grounded political ethnography of the Thai military's counterinsurgency practices in the southern borderland, home to the greater part of the "Malay-Muslim minority." Ruth Streicher argues that counterinsurgency practices mark the southern population as the racialized, religious, and gendered "other" of the Thai, which contributes to producing Thailand as an imperial formation: a state formation based on essentialized difference between the Thai and their "others." Through a genealogical approach, Uneasy Military Encounters addresses broad conceptual questions of imperial politics in a non-Western context: How can we understand imperial policing in a country that was never colonized? How is "Islam" constructed in a state that is officially secular and promotes Buddhist tolerance? What are the (historical) dynamics of imperial patriarchy in a context internationally known for its gender pluralism? The resulting ethnography excavates the imperial politics of concrete encounters between the military and the southern population in the ongoing conflict in southern Thailand

Target audience

adult

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