New Directions in Thai Studies

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-83859-0
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 556 g

This book considers recent developments in Thai history and historiography, examining why Thai studies had suffered under a combination of protectionism, uncritical learning, and unwillingness to engage with scholarship from abroad. The essays collected here explore, from Thai perspectives, innovations in theory and methodology in Thai studies, gathering critical insights from disciplines such as anthropology and cultural studies. The book may also serve as an entry to Thai studies, informing experts and non-specialist readers alike on topics such as access to Thai archives, the difficulties in conducting ethnographic research with Thai subjects, the (non-)development of scholarly disciplines in Thailand, and the challenges and opportunities presented by Thai studies as a whole for prospective scholars and graduate students.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hongsaton, Preedee

Chan, Ying-Kit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- Part I. New Histories.- 2. Historiography of Thai Nationalism: A Critique of Debates over Lost Territory.- 3. Rethinking National Defense during the Reign of King Chulalongkorn.- 4. Papered Forestry: Leases, Laws, and the Enactment of Forest Administration.- 5. Ordinary Archives, Fragmented Scenes: Making Public Queer History at Museum Siam.- Part II. New Disciplines.- 6. Religion in Transition: From Buddhism to New Religious Movements and Invisible Religions in Thailand.- 7. Cultural Strategy as Status-Anxiety Management: Evidence from Thailand’s Cultural Relations with Japan during the Pacific War.- 8. Sensitizing Thai Studies: (Multi)sensory Approaches to Thai History and Culture.- Part III. New Comparisons.- 9. Crematoria: King Rama V’s “Strategy of Hygiene” and Western Hygiene Reform in the Late Nineteenth Century.- 10. Thailand and Japan’s Comparative Centralization and Economic Development, 1850-World War I.- 11. George Orwell in Thai Political Landscape: The Global Texts and the Local Reception.- 12. Ideological Dichotomies: Thai Historiography in Representing Indochina during the Cold War Period.

Über Autor(innen)

Preedee Hongsaton is a Research Fellow at Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Sweden. He is currently a member of the collaborative research programme .

 is an Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. He was formerly a research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University. His latest book is  (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023).