Thailand's far south : engaging the difficult realities in a recurring conflict / Kee Howe Yong.

Author/creator Yong, Kee Howe, 1960- author.
Format Book
PublicationToronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2024]
Descriptionviii, 259 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Portion of title Far south
Contents The Violent Historical Debris -- Militarized and Islamified -- The Mak Pasar -- Households and Marital Unions, the Subject of Insecure Existence -- Hiding the Clouds with the Palms of Your Hands -- Are We Kon Thai? -- War on Terror -- The "Halalness" of Things.
Abstract "In Thailand's Far South, Kee Howe Yong sheds light on the Malay Muslims in Thailand's far south. The book focuses on the relationship between the construction of minorities--and thus majority--and issues of engaging with the difficulties of their realities: loss, violence, history, memory, livelihood, fear and paranoia, and political formations. The book explores the ways in which regimes of fear affect the way minorities relate to one another and to those in authority. It reveals how Muslim identities in southern Thailand are produced--under what constraints and structures, and by what technologies and force. Drawing on methodologies of narrative theory, performative aspects of language, and questions of history and memory, Yong demonstrates the ways the conflict was and is differently engaged by Malay Muslim interlocutors. The book addresses the generally ignored topic of the varied positions of the Malay Muslims at the borderland of Thailand's far south and the implications of these positions in understanding the meaning of the current insurgency for the heterogeneous Malay Muslim population. In doing so, Thailand's Far South provides an invaluable contribution to the southern Thai conflict, fieldwork in conflict zones, and the literature on violence, political science, history, security studies, and philosophies of violence."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Other formsIssued also in electronic format.
Issued in other formOnline version: Yong, Kee Howe, 1960- Thailand's far south. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2024 1487556152 9781487556150
ISBN9781487556129
ISBN1487556128 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book

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