Revolution Interrupted : Farmers, Students, Law, and Violence in Northern Thailand.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (254 pages)
- New Perspectives in SE Asian Studies .
- New Perspectives in SE Asian Studies .
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Note on Language, Translation, and Dates -- List of Abbreviations -- Map of Chiang Mai and Thailand -- Introduction: When Revolution Is Interrupted -- 1. Breaking the Backbone of the Nation -- 2. From the Rice Fields to the Cities -- 3. From the Classrooms to the Rice Fields -- 4. Violence and Its Denials -- 5. A State in Disarray -- Conclusion: Resuming Revolution? -- Appendix: Leaders of the FFT Victimized by Violence, 1974-1979 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
InRevolution InterruptedTyrell Haberkorn focuses on this period when political activism briefly opened up the possibility for meaningful social change. Tenant farmers and their student allies fomented revolution, she shows, not by picking up guns but by invoking laws-laws that the Thai state ultimately proved unwilling to enforce.
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Tenant farmers--Thailand, Northern--Political activity. Political violence--Thailand, Northern. Thailand, Northern--Politics and government. Thailand--Politics and government--1945-1988.