Contemporary Socio-Cultural and Political Perspectives in Thailand

Introduction; Pranee Liamputtong. - Part 1 Thailand and Current Socio-Cultural Issues. - Chapter 1. Redefining Thainess: Embracing Diversity, Preserving Unity; Suwilai Premsrirat. - Chapter 2. The Giant Swing (Lo Ching Cha): Brahmanical Origins and its Significance to the Religious Culture of Thailand; Willard G. Van De Bogart. - Chapter 3: Thai amulets: Symbol of the Practice of Multi Faiths and Cultures; Sophana Srichampa. - Chapter 4. Thai Buddhist Temples: A Religious Capital Approach for Preparing Thailand towards the Aging Society; Saowapa Pornsiripongse, Kwanchit Sasiwongsaroj and Patcharin Ketjamnong. - Chapter 5. Beyond a Localities: Community Development and Network Construction Among the Buddhist Monks in Northern Thailand; Mayumi Okabe. - Chapter 6: Hegemonic English, Standard Thai and Voices From a Margin: Self-Marginalization in Thailand; Adcharawan Buripakdi. - Chapter 7. Digital Revolution and its Discontents: Thai Underground Metal Scene and their Love-Hate Relationshipwith New Technologies; Athip Jittarerk. - Chapter 8. The ' Thawiphop' Phenomenon: Reimagining Nationalism in a Contemporary Thai Novel and Its Stage and Screen Adaptions; Morakot Jewachinda Meyer. - Chapter 9. Relatedness: Capitalism and the Traditional Village Economy; Ratana Tosakul. - Part 2. Political Aspects in Thailand Today. - Chapter 10: Party-Social Movement Coalition in Thailand s Political Conflict (2005-2011); Aim Sinpeng. - Chapter 11. `For King and Country : The Yellow Shirts of Thailand; Allan Lee. - Chapter 12.
The Vulnerability of Thai Democracy: Coups d' Etate and Political Changes in Modern Thailand; Pei-Hsiu Chen. -
Chapter 13. Politics and the City: Protest, Memory and Contested Issues in Bangkok; Serhat Uenaldi. - Chapter 14. The Politics of Change in Thai Cities: The Urban Poor as Development Catalysts; Diane Archer. - Part 3. Ethnic Issues in Contemporary Thailand. - Chapter 15. Language and Cultural Rights in the Ethnic Revival Movement of the Black Tai in Khaoyoi, Petchaburi; Sumittra Suraratdecha. - Chapter 16. Lahu Students in Thai schools: The Cases of Som and Noi; Matthew R. Juelsgaard. - Chapter 17. Rural-Urban Migration and Ethnic Minority Enterprise; Alexander Trupp. - Part 4. Contemporary Gender and Queer Perspectives. - Chapter 18. Learning to Look Good: Thai Women Office Workers and Everyday Consumption Practices at Work; Kosum Omphornuwat. - Chapter 19. Thai daughters, English Wives: A Critical Ethnography of Transnational Lives; Chantanee Charoensri. - Chapter 20. The Expat Life with a Thai Wife: Thailand as an Imagined Space of Masculine Transformation; Megan Lafferty and Kristen Hill Maher. - Chapter 21. Women NGOs Movement for Fighting Against Domestic Violence; Suangsurang Mitsamphanta. - Chapter 22. Women s Agency in the Malay Muslim Communities of Southern Thailand; Andrea K. Molnar. - Chapter 23. Trafficking and Coerced Prostitution in Thailand: Re-Conceptualizing International Law in the Age of Globalization; Erin Kamler. - Chapter 24. Gender and Buddhism in the Wake of the Tsumani; Monica Lindberg Falk. - Chapter 25. Not Yet Queer Enough: Revising `Gender in Development; Witchayanee Ocha. - Chapter 26. Conceptualizing Thai Genderscapes: Transformation and Continuity in the Thai Sex/Gender System; Dredge Byung' chu Käng. - Chapter 27. The Third Gender as Seen in Thai Fiction; Jenjit Gasigijtamrong. - Part 5. Contemporary Health Concerns. - Chapter 28. Theravada Buddhist Temple Taking Care of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Thailand: A Case Study of Phrabatnampu Temple; Yoshihide Sakurai & Kazumi Sasaki. - Chapter 29. Authoritative Knowledge, Folk Knowledge and Antenatal Care in Contemporary Northern Thailand; Pranee Liamputtong and Somsri Kitisriworapan. - Chapter 30. Moral Aspect and the Effectiveness of Local Healing in Northern Thailand; Yongsak Tantipidoke. - Chapter 31.
Phum Panya Chao Ban
(Local Wisdom) and Traditional Healers in Southern Thailand; Dusanee Suwankhong and Pranee Liamputtong. - Chapter32. Patronage, Domination or Collaboration? The Case of Thai Health Promotion Foundation; Atchara Rakyutidharm.