Ruth Streicher
Biographic Data
| ID | 5531112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Streicher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Streicher |
| SIGNATURE | STREICHER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9079-7257 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Imperialism, Buddhism and Islam in Siam
This article argues for understanding the reform of the Buddhist tradition in nineteenth-century Siam as a shift towards a secular conceptual grammar, and positions this shift within the dual imperial context of Siam. The binary conceptual structure that can be traced in the Nangsue Sadaeng Kitchanukit (Elaboration on major and minor matters, 1867) also included an opposition between Buddhism and Islam, documenting not only the epistemic marks of…
Introduction
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Research as a military mascot
The term ‘political ethnography’ has been used to describe a recent trend whereby political scientists, including scholars of security studies and international relations, increasingly deploy fieldwork to explore a variety of political arenas. This article challenges a one-dimensional understanding of political ethnography that sidelines the politics activated in an ethnographic research process and instead calls for political ethnographers to se…
The ‘New Path’ to Peace
This chapter explores the cultivation of masculinities in southern Thai counter-insurgency by example of a military-led re-education camp. The camp, literally titled the New Path camp, involves a seven-day training for young males from Thailand’s insurgent ‘Malay-Muslim’ provinces, including lessons on self-discipline, the correct practice of Islam and proper self-conduct. Here counter-insurgency takes the form of a pedagogic mission aimed at edu…
Fashioning the Gentlemanly State
Undergirded by the notion of the manly state, feminist works on military masculinities have tended to focus on prerogative practices of soldiering. Yet the significance of the military uniform can only be grasped if read against a performative concept of the gentlemanly state, emphasizing that the abstraction from violence is constitutive to military masculinities. Thus the powerful function of soldierly costume can be understood as one of demarc…
Fashioning the Gentlemanly State
Undergirded by the notion of the manly state, feminist works on military masculinities have tended to focus on prerogative practices of soldiering. Yet the significance of the military uniform can only be grasped if read against a performative concept of the gentlemanly state, emphasizing that the abstraction from violence is constitutive to military masculinities. Thus the powerful function of soldierly costume can be understood as one of demarc…
Imperialism, Buddhism and Islam in Siam
This article argues for understanding the reform of the Buddhist tradition in nineteenth-century Siam as a shift towards a secular conceptual grammar, and positions this shift within the dual imperial context of Siam. The binary conceptual structure that can be traced in the Nangsue Sadaeng Kitchanukit (Elaboration on major and minor matters, 1867) also included an opposition between Buddhism and Islam, documenting not only the epistemic marks of…
Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Fashioning the Gentlemanly State
Undergirded by the notion of the manly state, feminist works on military masculinities have tended to focus on prerogative practices of soldiering. Yet the significance of the military uniform can only be grasped if read against a performative concept of the gentlemanly state, emphasizing that the abstraction from violence is constitutive to military masculinities. Thus the powerful function of soldierly costume can be understood as one of demarc…
The ‘New Path’ to Peace
This chapter explores the cultivation of masculinities in southern Thai counter-insurgency by example of a military-led re-education camp. The camp, literally titled the New Path camp, involves a seven-day training for young males from Thailand’s insurgent ‘Malay-Muslim’ provinces, including lessons on self-discipline, the correct practice of Islam and proper self-conduct. Here counter-insurgency takes the form of a pedagogic mission aimed at edu…
Research as a military mascot
The term ‘political ethnography’ has been used to describe a recent trend whereby political scientists, including scholars of security studies and international relations, increasingly deploy fieldwork to explore a variety of political arenas. This article challenges a one-dimensional understanding of political ethnography that sidelines the politics activated in an ethnographic research process and instead calls for political ethnographers to se…
Imperialism, Buddhism and Islam in Siam
This article argues for understanding the reform of the Buddhist tradition in nineteenth-century Siam as a shift towards a secular conceptual grammar, and positions this shift within the dual imperial context of Siam. The binary conceptual structure that can be traced in the Nangsue Sadaeng Kitchanukit (Elaboration on major and minor matters, 1867) also included an opposition between Buddhism and Islam, documenting not only the epistemic marks of…
Introduction
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Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Buddhism (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)