Truth on trial in Thailand
Subtitle: defamation, treason, and lèse-majesté
By: David Streckfuss.
Series: Rethinking Southeast Asia
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780415414258; 9780203847541
Subjects: Libel and slander -- Thailand; Lese majesty -- Thailand; Political crimes and offenses -- Thailand
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The truth recently discovered; title: Regimes of truth, regimes of defamation; title: Truth and treason in old Siam; title: Chronology of Thai defamation-based laws; title: Normalizing "abnormal times" and the endless state of exception; title: Intent and import; title: The insulted and defamed (the individual to the nation); title: The insulted and defamed (monarchy and lèse-majesté); title: The people; title: Culture and traitor; title: Thai-ification and colonisation; title: Defamation and truth.