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Tai Lands And Thailand: Community And State In Southeast Asia
by Walker, Andrew (Ed.)
About This Book
Studies of the Tai world often treat "state" and "community" as polar opposites: the state produces administrative uniformity and commercialisation while community sustains tradition, local knowledge and subsistence economy. This leads to the conclusion that the traditional community is undermined by modern forces of state incorporation and market penetration.
This book takes a very different view. Using thematic and ethnographic studies from Thailand, Laos, Burma, and southern China, the authors describe modern forms of community where state power intersects with markets, livelihoods and aspirations. Modern community is not easily created nor is it inevitable, but rapid social and economic change in the Tai world has provided many opportunities for new forms of communal belonging to emerge.
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