Search for dissertations about: "The Thai State"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words The Thai State.

  2. 1. Control and Rent-Seeking: The Role of the State in the Thai Cassava Industry

    Author : Somboon Siriprachai; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic history; Cassava; The Thai State; Transaction Costs; Rent-Seeking; New Institutional Economics; Ekonomisk och social historia;

    Abstract : What we can conclude from this study is that the state and the market are not perfect substitutes in allocating resources and sustaining economic development separately. The case of the Thai cassava industry seems to suggest that the Thai state is not benevolent, but predatory in nature. READ MORE

  4. 2. Forests, farmers and the state : environmentalism and resistance in northeastern Thailand

    Author : Amare Tegbaru; Hans-Dieter Evers; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social anthropology ethnography; Socialantrolopologi etnografi; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

    Abstract : The Isan farmers in Ubonratchatani province of Northeast Thailand employ Buddhist as well as modernist environmental arguments to resist the spread of commercial eucalyptus plantations carried out by the state. Villagers affected by the consequences of commercial forestry have made a metaphorical link between eucalyptus, destructive exploitation and coercive power. READ MORE

  5. 3. Negotiating Thainess : Religious and National Identities in Thailand's Southern Conflict

    Author : Marte Nilsen; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The southern Thai conflict; Thai nation-building; Thainess; Patani Pattani; ethnicity; nation; religion; legitimacy; multiple identities; Malay Muslims; Thai Buddhists; interethnic relations.;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate how people express religious and national identities in the conflict-ridden Patani region of southern Thailand. In a historical framework of disputes over territory and political legitimacy, where identities have developed in response to an emerging Thai nation, it is of relevance to understand the dynamics of these identities and to disclose how local people perceive themselves, their communities and society at large. READ MORE

  6. 4. Making fields of merit: Buddhist nuns challenge gendered orders in Thailand

    Author : Monica Lindberg Falk; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; Thailand; sex; gender; Buddhism; nuns; rituals; gifts; education;

    Abstract : This anthropological study addresses the interaction and interconncectedness between religion and gender relations in Thailand, analysing this through the lens of the Buddhist nuns' (mae chiis') lives, actions and role in Thai society. The mae chiis have a long hstory in Thailand. READ MORE