Class, Culture and Space : The Construction and Shaping of Communal Space in South Thailand

by Horstmann, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9783933127518
• ISBN10: 3933127513
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag

Summary

In the present social and cultural transformation of South Thailand's cultural politics, ideologies involving the family, gender and home provide the cultural codes in social dramas of the state, the media, and social and religious movements. This study looks at micropolitics and the nesting of the political action of everyday life in larger, ultimately global structures of power. Exploring the making of class, culture and space, the production and consumption of culture is understood as work which involves the constant negotiation of boundaries.

Table of Contents

Preface	i
Georg Stauth
Preface and Acknowledgement	v
Introduction: Visions, Claims and Utopias	1	(1)
Morality and Politics in Southern Thailand	2	(1)
State of the Art	3	(1)
Communal Space	4	(2)
Visions, Claims and Utopias	6	(2)
Previous Studies on the Middle Classes in Southeast Asia	8	(2)
Religious Self-Affirmation in Southern Thailand	10	(1)
Outline of Chapters	11	(4)
Border Stories 1
Locals and Cosmopolitans in Southern Thailand	15	(26)
At the Religious Crossroads	16	(1)
Buddhism in Thailand	16	(2)
Islam and the Malay World	18	(2)
Modernity and Religious Resurgence	20	(2)
The Sacred Landscape: Historiography of South Thailand	22	(1)
Family and State: Chinese Immigrants in Southern Siam	22	(2)
Stories from the Border	24	(1)
Entering the Scenery	25	(3)
Sketching the Landscape: Some Illustrative Vignettes	28	(1)
Somkiat	29	(2)
Ismail	31	(1)
Punrit	32	(1)
Kruathep	33	(2)
Cosmopolitans and Locals	35	(4)
Extending Networks	39	(2)
The Making of Consumers in Southern Thailand	41	(20)
The Stuff of Middle Classness	41	(1)
Nongyaw and Sompong: The Family is one of Nature's Masterpieces	42	(2)
Varunee and Boonchu: The Family as a Castle	44	(3)
Somjai and Narongrit: Managing a Family	47	(1)
Sida and Sarunee: The Islamic Family	48	(1)
Juggling Home and Work	49	(1)
Moral Panics	50	(2)
Practices of Consumption: Housing	52	(2)
Changing Meaning of Childhood	54	(2)
Making up Domesticity: Emancipation and Subordination	56	(1)
Consumption: Life-Spaces of Self-Definition	56	(1)
Nongyaw and Sompong: Thai Love Thailand	56	(1)
Varunee and Boonchu: Success and Ethics	57	(1)
Sida and Sarunee: Following the Word of the Prophet	57	(1)
What are Collective Identities for?	58	(1)
Consuming Thainess, Contesting Thainess	58	(3)
Border Stories 2
Self-Affirmation, Globalization and Cultural Distinction in Songkla and Patani	61	(26)
Klum `Rao Rak Songkla'	61	(1)
Practices and Activities	62	(4)
Intellectual Figures and Locations	66	(2)
Concluding Remarks	68	(1)
Local Muslim Society in Patani	69	(2)
Che Man's Vision of the Local Islamic Community in Patani	71	(3)
New Styles and International Exchanges	74	(2)
Personalities, Networks and Locations	76	(5)
Communicating Islam in the Public Sphere	81	(2)
Leading Voices of Public Islam	83	(2)
Concluding Remarks	85	(2)
Community Media and the Politics of Nostalgia	87	(26)
Making Waves: Core Radio and other Media in the People Love Songkla Campaign	91	(2)
Islamic Media in the Patani Islamic Resurgence	93	(2)
Community Media and Media Spaces Compared	95	(2)
The Rise of Mediated Publicness in Southern Thailand	97	(1)
Social Memory and the Politics of Authenticity	98	(1)
The Politics of Remembrance	99	(1)
The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting	100	(1)
Social Memory	101	(2)
Theatres of Memory	103	(5)
The Curse, the Blessing and the Oath	108	(1)
The Past Cannot Be Forgotten	109	(1)
The Production of Locality and the Thai State	110	(2)
Southern Thailand as a Discursive Construct	112	(1)
Border Stories 3
Morals Matter: Cultural Politics Compared	113	(24)
Tradition, Modernity and Globalization	115	(1)
Cultural Politics Compared	116	(3)
Public Religion: Religious Public Spheres Compared	119	(3)
Public Transcripts	122	(3)
Modes of Social Organization and Leadership	125	(3)
Leading Professionals in Songkla, Religious Authorities in Patani	128	(1)
The Newcomer: Patterns of Mobilization and Disciplination	129	(2)
Culture Building and the Politics of Expressive Identities	131	(1)
Life Orders in Southern Thailand	132	(1)
Family Constructions and Gender Orders	133	(4)
Conclusion: Debating Morality and the Nation in Southern Thailand	137	(16)
After the Nation-State?	138	(1)
Debating Morality	139	(2)
Political Careers in Songkla	141	(4)
Cultural Bonds Between Patani and the Middle East	145	(2)
Transformation of Locality in Southern Thailand: Visions, Claims and Utopias	147	(2)
Locality, the Public Sphere and the Making of Moral Space	149	(2)
Debating Morality in Southern Thailand	151	(2)
Notes	153	(8)
Bibliography	161