Wolfram Schaffar
Biographic Data
| ID | 196656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolfram Schaffar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolfram |
| FAMILY NAME | Schaffar |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAFFAR W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3661-3226 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Process Geographies and a Fourth Wave of Area Studies
The aim of this paper is to bring together the concepts of process geographies (Appadurai, 1997) and topochrones (Houben, 2022)—innovative approaches that have emerged from the rich debates within New Area Studies. We argue that it is precisely these approaches in Area Studies that are needed to overcome the threat of a return to a polarised worldview in the context of today’s incipient Second Cold War (Schindler et al., 2023). The paper proceeds…
State and Statehood in the Global South: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies
Alternative Development Concepts and Their Political Embedding: The Case of Sufficiency Economy in Thailand
Sufficiency Economy is a local Thai alternative development paradigm, which has been enshrined in the Thai constitutions since 2006 and plays a central role in Thai political discourse since the Asian Crisis in 1997. However, the conflict between different visions of development was drawn into an intra-elite struggle, in the course of which formerly emancipatory development alternatives were co-opted into a highly authoritarian project. Today, it…
Alternative Paradigms of Development in State Politics and Policy Making in the Global South: An Introduction
The global recognition of local/indigenous alternativesIn many parts of the Global South, locally rooted, indigenousor indigenisedcultural conceptualisations have become key denominators in state politics and policy-making processes.This is an interesting fact in itself, since many of these alternative concepts arising from grassroots social movements, indigenous activists and radical decolonization scholars articulate a fundamental criticism at …
The Thai-Burmese borderland: Mobilities, regimes, actors and changing political contexts
For decades people from Myanmar have fled or migrated to Thailand. Civil conflicts, political repression, poverty and a lack of work opportunities are just some of the reasons why people have left Myanmar. Through these movements and the way they have been governed, a borderland has been constituted. In recent decades especially, the border itself has been strategically manipulated by state authorities to preserve a border area used as an industr…
The 2006 anti-Thaksin movement in Thailand: An analysis
This article examines the mass protests against Thailand's billionaire Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006. Over a series of several months, hundreds of thousands of people took part in demonstrations that created a deep political crisis and forced Thaksin to call snap elections. This political crisis was partly a result of intra-elite conflict between the old power elite and Thaksin's "CEO-style" rule, which opened up space for a broader p…
Yesno questions in Mandarin and the theory of focus
Yes-no questions in Mandarin can be expressed in many different ways. Former syntactic approaches (Li and Thompson 1979; Huang 1991; Li 1992; McCawley 1994) stressed the difference between so called A-not-A question forms and the particle question with ma. With a number of pragmatic and syntactic tests like focusing, wh binding, and the interaction between negation and the universal quantifier dou, we show that a threefold distinction is necessar…
The 2006 anti-Thaksin movement in Thailand: An analysis
This article examines the mass protests against Thailand's billionaire Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006. Over a series of several months, hundreds of thousands of people took part in demonstrations that created a deep political crisis and forced Thaksin to call snap elections. This political crisis was partly a result of intra-elite conflict between the old power elite and Thaksin's "CEO-style" rule, which opened up space for a broader p…
Alternative Development Concepts and Their Political Embedding: The Case of Sufficiency Economy in Thailand
Sufficiency Economy is a local Thai alternative development paradigm, which has been enshrined in the Thai constitutions since 2006 and plays a central role in Thai political discourse since the Asian Crisis in 1997. However, the conflict between different visions of development was drawn into an intra-elite struggle, in the course of which formerly emancipatory development alternatives were co-opted into a highly authoritarian project. Today, it…
Yesno questions in Mandarin and the theory of focus
Yes-no questions in Mandarin can be expressed in many different ways. Former syntactic approaches (Li and Thompson 1979; Huang 1991; Li 1992; McCawley 1994) stressed the difference between so called A-not-A question forms and the particle question with ma. With a number of pragmatic and syntactic tests like focusing, wh binding, and the interaction between negation and the universal quantifier dou, we show that a threefold distinction is necessar…
The 2006 anti-Thaksin movement in Thailand: An analysis
This article examines the mass protests against Thailand's billionaire Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006. Over a series of several months, hundreds of thousands of people took part in demonstrations that created a deep political crisis and forced Thaksin to call snap elections. This political crisis was partly a result of intra-elite conflict between the old power elite and Thaksin's "CEO-style" rule, which opened up space for a broader p…
The Thai-Burmese borderland: Mobilities, regimes, actors and changing political contexts
For decades people from Myanmar have fled or migrated to Thailand. Civil conflicts, political repression, poverty and a lack of work opportunities are just some of the reasons why people have left Myanmar. Through these movements and the way they have been governed, a borderland has been constituted. In recent decades especially, the border itself has been strategically manipulated by state authorities to preserve a border area used as an industr…
Alternative Development Concepts and Their Political Embedding: The Case of Sufficiency Economy in Thailand
Sufficiency Economy is a local Thai alternative development paradigm, which has been enshrined in the Thai constitutions since 2006 and plays a central role in Thai political discourse since the Asian Crisis in 1997. However, the conflict between different visions of development was drawn into an intra-elite struggle, in the course of which formerly emancipatory development alternatives were co-opted into a highly authoritarian project. Today, it…
Alternative Paradigms of Development in State Politics and Policy Making in the Global South: An Introduction
The global recognition of local/indigenous alternativesIn many parts of the Global South, locally rooted, indigenousor indigenisedcultural conceptualisations have become key denominators in state politics and policy-making processes.This is an interesting fact in itself, since many of these alternative concepts arising from grassroots social movements, indigenous activists and radical decolonization scholars articulate a fundamental criticism at …
State and Statehood in the Global South: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies
Process Geographies and a Fourth Wave of Area Studies
The aim of this paper is to bring together the concepts of process geographies (Appadurai, 1997) and topochrones (Houben, 2022)—innovative approaches that have emerged from the rich debates within New Area Studies. We argue that it is precisely these approaches in Area Studies that are needed to overcome the threat of a return to a polarised worldview in the context of today’s incipient Second Cold War (Schindler et al., 2023). The paper proceeds…
Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (3 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works) · Authoritarianism (2 works)