Finding Their Voice: Northeastern Villagers and the Thai State

By Charles F. Keyes

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6162150747
• ISBN13: 9786162150746
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Silkworm Books
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher