Chris Baker
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3647802 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Chris Baker |
| NOMBRES | Chris |
| APELLIDO | Baker |
| FIRMA | BAKER C |
| AFILIACIONES | William Temple Foundation |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7572-1871 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 201 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Do alcohol industry-funded organisations act to correct misinformation? A qualitative study of pregnancy and infant health content following independent analysis
BACKGROUND: Access to reliable, accurate, and up-to-date health information is a crucial component of global population health. Like other health-harming industries, the alcohol industry is known to provide misinformation to the public, including on alcohol, pregnancy, and infant health. It is unknown whether industry information changes following independent public health analysis. METHODS: We extracted data using the homepage, menu, and search …
Nai Mot’s Printing of the Three Seals Law in 1849/50
When Nai Mot Amatyakul (1819–1896) attempted the first printing of the Three Seals Law in 1849/50, King Rama III (r. 1824–1851) ordered the books seized and destroyed—a pivotal moment in Siam’s confrontation with the West and modernity. Scholarly accounts of this incident vary on the details and lack any citation of the sources for their information. Several accounts state that only one volume of Mot’s printing survives (in the National Library o…
Before the Amulet
The practice of wearing buddha amulets has evolved significantly over the past century, with a notable surge in the last two decades. However, the concepts and methods behind these amulets trace back to the Ayutthaya and early Bangkok eras, as documented in literature, laws, and foreign accounts. To combat natural dangers, sciences were developed to predict and influence natural forces through words, numbers, natural substances, and constructed d…
A History of Thailand
Since it was first published in 2005, A History of Thailand has been hailed as an authoritative, lively and readable account of Thailand's political, economic, social and cultural history. From the early settlements in the Chao Phraya basin to today, Baker and Phongpaichit trace how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree peasants was transformed by colonialism, the expansion of the rice frontier and the immigration of traders and labourers from so…
History of Thailand
Thailand and the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020
“Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia. In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the region’s dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts. It is…
Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment
Siam and World War I
Re-Imagining Religion and Belief
Ghosts in the machine
This paper analyses the role and impact of beliefs, values and worldviews (BVW) in the business and work-based environment, and how they are translated and negotiated in non-spiritual and non-sacred spaces. Based on pilot research with a cohort of English Roman Catholic employees and managers conducted within a retreat setting, and as part of a wider research project across religious and non-religious cohorts, the article traces an emerging frame…
A History of Ayutthaya
Early European visitors placed Ayutthaya alongside China and India as the great powers of Asia. Yet in 1767 the city was destroyed and its history has been neglected. This book is the first study of Ayutthaya from its emergence in the thirteenth century until its fall. It offers a wide-ranging view of social, political, and cultural history with focus on commerce, kingship, Buddhism, and war. By drawing on a wide range of sources including chroni…
Reinventing Mountain Food Traditions and Small Farm Survival in Southern Appalachia
For over four decades, social scientists have addressed the relationship between development strategies and Appalachia’s highland cultural traditions. Historically, mountain foodways and diversified agricultural practices were defined as aspects of primitive folkways legitimating resource extractive industries and centralized development strategies. Today, the region contains many of the nation’s remaining family farms. The processes of globaliza…
The Palace Law of Ayutthaya and the Thammasat
Early Modern Siam as a Mainly Urban Society
Early modern Siam is usually portrayed as a predominantly rural, peasant society. This picture is assumed from the worldwide trend of rural-to-urban transition, rather than from study of Siam itself. The available sources have a striking lack of any evidence on rural society. This article explores the possibility that this absence may reflect a real-world difference, not just perception. Unlike in temperate zones, enough food could be produced wi…
Faith in the public sphere – in search of a fair and compassionate society for the twenty-first century
This article develops a keynote lecture delivered at the start of the Social Justice: Building a Fairer, More Equal Society conference, held to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Malvern Conference, convened by the Archbishop of York, William Temple, in 1941. In replication of that event’s methodology and structure, the article locates the presence of social justice within a social imaginary of a connected society that deploys foundational p…
Very Distinguished Alumni
The creation of elite networks can be explicit and deliberate, especially as a strategy to sustain an oligarchic political system. In Thailand, because of rapid economic and social change, there are few of the established, seemingly natural frameworks for networking found in more settled societies. Those hopeful of joining the power elite come from widely differing backgrounds. Paths through education are very fragmented. There are no clubs and a…
Sustainable Governance in a Postsecular Public Sphere
This article nuances debates about the role and contribution of religion to sustainable forms of governance in respect of current policy and political debates. It lays out some of the definitional terms of reference around governance and sustainable development. It then locates these debates within a series of wider, interdisciplinary frameworks (primarily political philosophy, sociology, political geography and public theology), including concep…
The Palace Law of Ayutthaya and the Thammasat
Unequal Thailand
The 2014 ThaiCoupand Some Roots of Authoritarianism
Thailand is the only country currently ruled by a coup-installed military government. The 2014 coup aimed not only to abolish the influence of Thaksin Shinawatra but also to shift Thailand's politics in an authoritarian direction. While the army authored the coup, the professional and official elite played a prominent role in engineering the coup and shaping political reforms. This article examines some historical antecedents of this authoritaria…
Discourses on Religious Diversity
Discourses on Religious Diversity: Explorations in an Urban Ecology." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 31(1), pp. 139–140
A History of Thailand
A History of Thailand offers a lively and accessible account of Thailand's political, economic, social and cultural history. This book explores how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree peasants was transformed and examines how the monarchy managed the foundation of a new nation-state at the turn of the twentieth century. The authors capture the clashes between various groups in their attempts to take control of the nation-state in the twentieth …
History of Thailand
A Short Account of the Rise and Fall of the Thai Technocracy The Politics of Technocracy in Southeast Asia
Thailand's sustained growth from the 1960s to 1990s was often attributed to a strong technocracy relatively free of political influence. Members of the first cadre of technocrats, which emerged in the 1950s, were mostly educated in Europe. In the "American" era, more were educated in the United States and believed the role of government was to provide a safe and liberal environment for capital, mostly through a fixed exchange rate and balanced bu…
A Theology of Community Organizing
A Theology of Community Organizing: Power to the People." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 30(1), pp. 162–163
Thaksin's populism
Thaksin Shinawatra was not a populist when he rose to power in 2001, but became so in intensifying stages over the next five years. His populism went beyond redistributive policies to include rhetorical rejection of Thailand's political elite, and denigration of liberal democracy in favour of personalised authoritarianism. Fears provoked by this populism helped to mobilise the urban middle-class rejection of Thaksin which was background to the 20…
The 2014 ThaiCoupand Some Roots of Authoritarianism
Thailand is the only country currently ruled by a coup-installed military government. The 2014 coup aimed not only to abolish the influence of Thaksin Shinawatra but also to shift Thailand's politics in an authoritarian direction. While the army authored the coup, the professional and official elite played a prominent role in engineering the coup and shaping political reforms. This article examines some historical antecedents of this authoritaria…
Challenge and Change in East Asia
Thailandâ s politics have changed dramatically under Thaksin Shinawatra and his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party since 2001. The business-based party has gradually come to resemble the â neo-populistâ regimes of Latin America. It appeals to the â disorganizedâ mass in the rural economy and urban informal sector by launching redistributive policies, distancing itself from old leaders, and simultaneously undermining democratic institutions and liberal val…
Thailand’s Assembly of the Poor
In Thailand in the early 1990s, several new organizations appeared to represent rural demands. Their emergence reflected a relaxation of Cold War era repression, but also a transformation in the rural political economy which brought village and city closer together, and which created new groups and leaders with a rural base but with exposure to the urban economy and culture. In 1995, this movement split. Groups of more secure farmers joined lobby…
Unequal Thailand
An internal history of the communist party of Thailand
This is a translation of a history of the Communist Party of Thailand, written by a leading party member in 1978. The Thai original was published for the first time in early 2003. The document begins with a background analysis of Thai society, then traces the party's history from the 1920s, and ends with the “lessons” learnt. The document is especially detailed on the party's adoption and adaptation of the Maoist strategy of rural armed struggle.…
Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment
The Palace Law of Ayutthaya and the Thammasat
Ayutthaya Rising
Ayutthaya rose as a maritime power with involvement down the peninsula and in the China trade. Early Ayutthaya resembled coastal polities of the archipelago more than hinterland states of the mainland. Over the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Ayutthaya changed by absorbing people, political structures, and cultural practice from the north
The political economy of the Thai crisis
This paper looks at the background to Thailand's crisis of 1997 from the viewpoint of the local political economy. The policy regime which had managed stable growth before 1985 was destroyed by a coalition of newly empowered technocrats, new business groups, and the neoliberal World Bank/IMF. This coalition promoted financial liberalization, but had neither the ideological coherence nor the political power to manage the consequences. The neoliber…
Exploring Secular Spiritual Capital
This article introduces the concept of secular spiritual capital (SSC) as a contribution to new theory and praxis, which the authors believe has potential to serve as an important tool in the increasingly sensitive yet robust task of public theology; namely mapping and negotiating increasingly complex and contested public spaces between religion and secularity. The article starts with the furore caused by a public lecture given by Rowan Williams,…
Sustainable Governance in a Postsecular Public Sphere
This article nuances debates about the role and contribution of religion to sustainable forms of governance in respect of current policy and political debates. It lays out some of the definitional terms of reference around governance and sustainable development. It then locates these debates within a series of wider, interdisciplinary frameworks (primarily political philosophy, sociology, political geography and public theology), including concep…
Reviving Democracy at Thailand’s 2011 Election
This article analyzes the results of Thailand’s 2011 election in the context of the prior six years of political turmoil. It argues that the election was a landmark in restoring the prospects for electoral democracy in Thailand
Moral Freighting and Civic Engagement
Journal Article Moral Freighting and Civic Engagement: A UK Perspective on Putnam and Campbell's Theory of Religious-Based Social Action Get access Christopher Baker Christopher Baker * University of Chester *Direct correspondence to Christopher Baker, Theology and Religious Studies, University of Chester, Parkgate Road, Chester CH1 4BJ, UK. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
A managed clinical network for cardiac services
The Managed Clinical Network made a difference to ways of working, particularly in breaching traditional boundaries and involving the public, and made modest changes in patient care. However, it required a two-year "set-up" period. Managed clinical networks are complex initiatives with an increasing profile in health care policy. This study suggests that they require energetic leadership and improvements are likely to be slow and incremental
The helping process in couples during recovery from heart attack
This single case study aimed to illustrate help‐intended communication in couples, in particular how a husband and wife attempted to help each other with adjusting to the husband' s recent myocardial infarction. The study employed a semi‐structured communication task to gather samples of the couple's helping interactions: the couple had two conversations in which they alternated helper and discloser roles. Quantitative and qualitative data were o…
Reinventing Mountain Food Traditions and Small Farm Survival in Southern Appalachia
For over four decades, social scientists have addressed the relationship between development strategies and Appalachia’s highland cultural traditions. Historically, mountain foodways and diversified agricultural practices were defined as aspects of primitive folkways legitimating resource extractive industries and centralized development strategies. Today, the region contains many of the nation’s remaining family farms. The processes of globaliza…
Early Modern Siam as a Mainly Urban Society
Early modern Siam is usually portrayed as a predominantly rural, peasant society. This picture is assumed from the worldwide trend of rural-to-urban transition, rather than from study of Siam itself. The available sources have a striking lack of any evidence on rural society. This article explores the possibility that this absence may reflect a real-world difference, not just perception. Unlike in temperate zones, enough food could be produced wi…
A Theology of Community Organizing
A Theology of Community Organizing: Power to the People." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 30(1), pp. 162–163
Years of Empiricism and Empowerment
The political economy of the Thai crisis
This paper looks at the background to Thailand's crisis of 1997 from the viewpoint of the local political economy. The policy regime which had managed stable growth before 1985 was destroyed by a coalition of newly empowered technocrats, new business groups, and the neoliberal World Bank/IMF. This coalition promoted financial liberalization, but had neither the ideological coherence nor the political power to manage the consequences. The neoliber…
The helping process in couples during recovery from heart attack
This single case study aimed to illustrate help‐intended communication in couples, in particular how a husband and wife attempted to help each other with adjusting to the husband' s recent myocardial infarction. The study employed a semi‐structured communication task to gather samples of the couple's helping interactions: the couple had two conversations in which they alternated helper and discloser roles. Quantitative and qualitative data were o…
Thailand’s Assembly of the Poor
In Thailand in the early 1990s, several new organizations appeared to represent rural demands. Their emergence reflected a relaxation of Cold War era repression, but also a transformation in the rural political economy which brought village and city closer together, and which created new groups and leaders with a rural base but with exposure to the urban economy and culture. In 1995, this movement split. Groups of more secure farmers joined lobby…
Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England
Donne, Castiglione, and the Poetry of Courtliness
Ayutthaya Rising
Ayutthaya rose as a maritime power with involvement down the peninsula and in the China trade. Early Ayutthaya resembled coastal polities of the archipelago more than hinterland states of the mainland. Over the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Ayutthaya changed by absorbing people, political structures, and cultural practice from the north
An internal history of the communist party of Thailand
This is a translation of a history of the Communist Party of Thailand, written by a leading party member in 1978. The Thai original was published for the first time in early 2003. The document begins with a background analysis of Thai society, then traces the party's history from the 1920s, and ends with the “lessons” learnt. The document is especially detailed on the party's adoption and adaptation of the Maoist strategy of rural armed struggle.…
John Donne
Tim Gorringe, A Theology of the Built Environment
(2004). Tim Gorringe, A Theology of the Built Environment. Political Theology: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 249-250
Sweet Bird of Youth (review)
The sex and sin of Tennessee Williams's plays were—until the breakup of the USSR—either banned by prudish censors or diluted by jittery translators. Despite this, Williams has been a popular playwright, and today the repertoire of Moscow theatres includes not only his best-known works—The Glass Menagerie, The Rose Tattoo, and A Streetcar Named Desire—but also Williams's experiments in language, character, and form—Small Craft Warnings, The Two Ch…
Framing Fox-Strangways
The frames chosen by the collector Fox-Strangways for the important paintings he presented to Christ Church, Oxford, in the nineteenth century provide information about how he decided to display his early Italian pictures, and a close study of a series of previously unnoticed inscriptions they bear illustrates the full extent of his taste.
A managed clinical network for cardiac services
The Managed Clinical Network made a difference to ways of working, particularly in breaching traditional boundaries and involving the public, and made modest changes in patient care. However, it required a two-year "set-up" period. Managed clinical networks are complex initiatives with an increasing profile in health care policy. This study suggests that they require energetic leadership and improvements are likely to be slow and incremental
John Atherton, Marginalisation
Hatun Willakuy, Versión abreviada del informe final de la Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación , Comisión de Entrega de la Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación, Lima, Perú, Feb. 2004, 4 77pp
The title of the report is a Quechua phrase meaning ‘Great Telling of the Truth’. It deals with what happened during the twenty years of armed conflict in Peru from 1980–2000. Quechua is used here as a tribute to the victims of violence, as the vast majority were found to have been impoverished peasants who spoke Quechua or some other indigenous language. It is an extraordinary book in many ways, beginning with its authors. After the sacking of P…
Collaborations for Change
My involvement in this research began in 1996 as an assistant professor of sociology at West Virginia University Institute of Technology (WVUIT). There I worked with the Southern Appalachian Labor School (SALS) attending board meetings, evaluating programs, and operating a service learning program. What emerged from this work is a community development model showing the strenghts and difficulties of integrating multiple resources and groups to he…
Challenge and Change in East Asia
Thailandâ s politics have changed dramatically under Thaksin Shinawatra and his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party since 2001. The business-based party has gradually come to resemble the â neo-populistâ regimes of Latin America. It appeals to the â disorganizedâ mass in the rural economy and urban informal sector by launching redistributive policies, distancing itself from old leaders, and simultaneously undermining democratic institutions and liberal val…
John Reader, Blurred Encounters
(2006). John Reader, Blurred Encounters: A Reasoned Practice of Faith. Political Theology: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 239-240
The Hybrid Church in the City
The era of post-colonialism and globalisation has brought new intensities of debate concerning the existence of diversity and plurality, and the need to work in partnerships to resolve major problems of injustice and marginalisation now facing local and global communities. The Church is struggling to connect with the significant economic, political and cultural changes impacting on all types of urban context but especially city centres, inner rin…
Diaspora Philanthropy in Australia
Australia is home to numerous diaspora (ethnic) communities that have settled in Australia throughout the twentieth century. Over the decades these ethnic communities have adapted to the Australian way of life and while there was an attempt to create a one single national identity, many immigrant communities continue to maintain their cultural and linguistic links with their origin homeland. It is to be expected that many within these ethnic comm…
Wickham, E. R. 1957. Church and People in an Industrial City
"Wickham, E. R. 1957. Church and People in an Industrial City." Practical Theology, 1(1), pp. 143–144
Exploring Secular Spiritual Capital
This article introduces the concept of secular spiritual capital (SSC) as a contribution to new theory and praxis, which the authors believe has potential to serve as an important tool in the increasingly sensitive yet robust task of public theology; namely mapping and negotiating increasingly complex and contested public spaces between religion and secularity. The article starts with the furore caused by a public lecture given by Rowan Williams,…
Years of Empiricism and Empowerment
Thaksin's populism
Thaksin Shinawatra was not a populist when he rose to power in 2001, but became so in intensifying stages over the next five years. His populism went beyond redistributive policies to include rhetorical rejection of Thailand's political elite, and denigration of liberal democracy in favour of personalised authoritarianism. Fears provoked by this populism helped to mobilise the urban middle-class rejection of Thaksin which was background to the 20…
A History of Thailand
In A History of Thailand, Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit reveal how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree labour evolved into a rural society of smallholder peasants and an urban society populated mainly by migrants from southern China. They trace how a Buddhist cosmography adapted to new ideas of time and space, and a traditional polity was transformed into a new nation-state under a strengthened monarchy. The authors cover the contests betw…
South East Asia
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