Thailand

Numbers have played an important role in Southeast Asia. Numbers have political utility, especially when presented in manner that creates a dichotomous division.

Written six years ago today, in the wake of the anti-Thaksin coup, this article reflects on the contribution Thailand's pro-democracy movement made to the undermining of democracy.

The National Library of Australia's significant Thai cigarette card collection has been digitized and the images are now freely available.

While Thai villagers were once believed to be remote from politics, and some imagine that still to be true, Walker is bent on exploding that notion for ever.

Part 2 in a three-part series focusing on under-analysed aspects of the Dawei deep-sea port and industrial zone project in southeastern Burma. This post discusses the role of labour and activists.

Part 1 in a three-part series focusing on under-analysed aspects of the Dawei deep-sea port and industrial zone project in southeastern Burma.

With two significant royal celebrations in mid-2012, Prince Vajiralongkorn’s 60th birthday was also a reminder of the fact the he too is no longer a young man.

The overnight coach from Bangkok’s Morchit terminal to Mae Sot in the Northwest stops at several Thai army checkpoints where soldiers with bulletproof vests and surgical masks survey passengers’ identity cards.

The state has become a very important source of income, but state expenditure has done little to produce more productive forms of economic activity.

Thaksin has a track record of indestructibility. It makes sense that in the difficult years to come the palace will want him on their side.

The main challenge for Thailand's agriculture–its relatively low labor productivity–arises from the persistence of an agricultural peasantry, not its disappearance.

A new form of "political society" has emerged based on the productive interaction between peasant culture and the governing practices of the modern state.

Rural Thailand's new "political society" is energized by a fundamental desire to be productively connected to sources of power.