Constructing Thailand

Regulation, Everyday Resistance, and Citizenship

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2107914
AutoresP Vandergeest (0000-0002-6679-8356, University of Victoria, autor de correspondencia)
Año1993
Volumen35
Número1
Páginas133-158
Fecha de publicación1993-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417500018284
OpenAlexW2121550338
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas25
Referencias citadas28

Studies of what we call modern societies frequently take one of two major perspectives. The first emphasizes an ever-increasing constraining or regulatory power (Weber's iron cage [1976], or Foucault's discipline and regulation [1979, 1980]). The second tradition seems to contradict the first by emphasizing trends, such as a 'democratic revolution' (de Tocqueville 1969:702-5; Laclau and Mouffe 1985:152) or the extension of citizenship rights (Marshall 1973; Bendix 1977). In this essay I argue that the twin processes of increasing regulation on one hand, and institutionalization of individual rights on the other, are closely linked. I make this argument by interpreting the transformation of relations between the state and peasants in Siam (Thailand) during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and through an assessment of two books which have been particularly influential in comparative studies during the 1980s: James Scott'sWeapons of the Weak(1985) and Benedict Anderson'sImagined Communities(1983

Argument (complex analysis) · Citizenship · Democracy · Extension (predicate logic) · Institutionalisation · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Cambodian History and Society · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies