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Uneasy military encounters : the imperial politics of counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand / Ruth Streicher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Streicher, Ruth, 1982- author.
- Series:
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Cornell scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnic conflict--Thailand, Southern.
- Ethnic conflict.
- Counterinsurgency--Thailand, Southern.
- Counterinsurgency.
- Militarism--Thailand, Southern.
- Militarism.
- Islam--Thailand, Southern--Relations--Buddhism.
- Islam.
- Buddhism--Thailand, Southern--Relations--Islam.
- Buddhism.
- Race discrimination--Thailand, Southern.
- Race discrimination.
- Sexism--Thailand, Southern.
- Sexism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource)
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2021.
- 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. The book 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, the book 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?
- Contents:
- Introduction. Policing the Imperial Formation
- Policing History: A Military Handbook on the Southern Provinces
- Checkpoints and Racialized Practices of Suspicion
- The New Path to Peace: Disciplining Religious Subjects
- Guarding the Daughter: Patriarchal Compromise and Military Sisterhood
- Conclusion. Happiness and Military Rule.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501751332
- 1501751336
- 9781501751349
- 1501751344
- OCLC:
- 1135908321
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