Class, Culture and Space

The Construction and Shaping of Communal Space in South Thailand

By: Alexander Horstmann

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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.

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"As the literature on Southern Thailand is very limited, the book is a welcome source of information about the cultural and societal situation in this region. The study can be recommended to readers interested in detailed regional information about Southern Thailand." Patrick Ziegenhals, Internationales Asienforum, 11 (2004)

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