Finding Their Voice
Subtitle: Northeastern Villagers and the Thai State
Publisher: Silk Worm Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9786162150746
Subjects: Political culture; Thailand, politics and government
Description: This book traces the evolution of the rural, Lao-speaking people of northeastern Thailand, now over a third of the nation’s population, from a traditional peasantry into “cosmopolitan” villagers who are actively shaping Thai politics. The electoral successes of the Thai Rak Thai/Pheu Thai Party in the early twenty-first century and the strong support given to the Red-Shirt movement appear to have finally given the cosmopolitan villagers of northeastern Thailand a continuing voice in the nation’s political process.