Title: Finding Their Voice
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.
Subjects: Political culture, Thailand, politics and government, Lawa (Thai people), Social life and customs, Rural conditions, Social conditions, History, Politics and government, Lao (Tai people), Political activity