Thailand's Far South : Engaging the Difficult Realities in a Recurring Conflict / Kee Howe Yong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yong, Kee Howe, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insurgency--Thailand, Southern.

Insurgency.

Muslims--Thailand, Southern.

Muslims.

Violence--Thailand, Southern.

Violence.

Thailand, Southern--Politics and government.

Thailand, Southern.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2024]

Summary:

"In Thailand's Far South, Kee Howe Yong sheds light on the Malay Muslims in Thailand's far south. The book focuses on the relationship between the construction of minorities--and thus majority--and issues of engaging with the difficulties of their realities: loss, violence, history, memory, livelihood, fear and paranoia, and political formations. The book explores the ways in which regimes of fear affect the way minorities relate to one another and to those in authority. It reveals how Muslim identities in southern Thailand are produced--under what constraints and structures, and by what technologies and force. Drawing on methodologies of narrative theory, performative aspects of language, and questions of history and memory, Yong demonstrates the ways the conflict was and is differently engaged by Malay Muslim interlocutors. The book addresses the generally ignored topic of the varied positions of the Malay Muslims at the borderland of Thailand's far south and the implications of these positions in understanding the meaning of the current insurgency for the heterogeneous Malay Muslim population. In doing so, Thailand's Far South provides an invaluable contribution to the southern Thai conflict, fieldwork in conflict zones, and the literature on violence, political science, history, security studies, and philosophies of violence."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Violent Historical Debris

Militarized and Islamified

The Mak Pasar

Households and Marital Unions, the Subject of Insecure Existence

Hiding the Clouds with the Palms of Your Hands

Are We Kon Thai?

War on Terror

The "Halalness" of Things.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781487556143

1487556144

9781487556150

1487556152

OCLC:

1427362825