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CONTENTS:
1. Introduction: Challenging the Standard Total View of the Thai Monarchy (S├╕ren Ivarsson and Lotte Isager)
I: Sacral Kingship in a Modern World: Cultural and Ideological Foundations
2. Virtual Divinity: A 21st Century Discourse of Thai Royal Influence (Peter A. Jackson)
3. Entertainment Nationalism: The Royal Gaze and the Gaze at the Royals (Sarun Krittikarn)
4. Culture of Monarchy: A Repertory Theatre through Time (Martin Platt)
II: The Legal Sanction of Sacredness
5. The Intricacies of Lese-Majesty: A Comparative Study of Imperial Germany and Modern Thailand (David Streckfuss)
III: Thai-Style Democracy
6. The Monarchy and the Royalist Movement in Modern Thai Politics, 1932–1957 (Nattapoll Chaiching)
7. ‘Thai-Style Democracy’: The Royalist Struggle for Thailand’s Politics (Kevin Hewison and Kengkij Kitirianglarp)
8. Post-Coup Royalist Groups: Re-inventing Military and Ideological Power (Han Krittian)
IV: Sufficiency Economy
9. Strengthening the Moral Fibre of the Nation: The King’s Sufficiency Economy as Etho-politics (Lotte Isager and S├╕ren Ivarsson)
10. Royal Sufficiency and Elite Misrepresentation of Rural Livelihoods (Andrew Walker)