Civil society and democratization : social movements in northeast Thailand
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Bibliographic Information
Civil society and democratization : social movements in northeast Thailand
(Nordic Institute of Asian Studies monograph series, no. 99)
NIAS Press, 2006
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 225-248
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is for anyone wondering whatever happened to Thailand's vanished Marxist insurgents or interested in understanding the forces behind the mass demonstrations of peasants that periodically descend on Bangkok. Specifically, the book investigates the struggle of an important social movement in Thailand, the Small Scale Farmers' Assembly of Isan (SSFAI), and examines the role of civil society in the process of democratization.
This first major work on the SSFAI demonstrates how civil society organizations in the form of social movements contribute to the democratization process in the key areas of citizenship rights. Moreover, the book also addresses two important themes in social movements research: the impacts of strategies and tactics on the outcomes of social movements, and the effect of organizational structure on movements' goals and activities.
Table of Contents
Ch 1: Introduction: Civil Society and the Struggles for the Right to Have Rights. Ch 2: Political Radicalism in Isan. Ch 3: The Origin and Transitional Period of the SSFAI. Ch 4: The SSFAI During the Radical Period (1993-95). Ch 5: Conflicts, Splits and the Experimentation with a New Strategy. Ch 6: The SSFAI After the Failure of the Compromise Strategy. Ch 7: From Regional to National Organization.
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