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Pō̜mphet, Thīrawat Na. "A political history of Siam under the Prasatthong dynasty, 1629-1688." Online version, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.296262.
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Winichakul, Thongchai. "Siam mapped : a history of the geo-body of Siam." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1988. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26017.
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Nationhood or a nation is a powerful denomination for modern human beings. In the case of Siam, the hegemony over the interpretation of Thainess is also crucial for power relations in the society. This study aims at examining how an identification of nationhood was formulated, through various moments of confrontation and displacement of discourses. Even the most concrete identification of Siam, such as its territory and related values and practices, all of which I term the "geo-body", was discursively created in the nineteenth century.
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Chawchai, Sakonvan. "The Holocene climate history of Lake Kumphawapi, northeast Thailand." Licentiate thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för geologiska vetenskaper, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-75945.
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Srisantisuk, Somparat. "Pro-poor tourism policy in Thailand." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3146/.
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This study is an attempt to determine how tourism and tourism development policies, strategies and initiatives impact income generation and employment opportunities in a rural ethnic community. The research consisted of both qualitative and quantitative methods. In-depth interviews, focus group discussions and participatory observations from various stakeholders were used to obtain qualitative data. The quantitative data were gathered using a researcher-developed questionnaire to obtain data from 330 households in Had Bai Village, Chiang Rai Province, northern Thailand. The research findings demonstrate that the well-being of the poor and the impact of the Thai government‘s One Tambon One Product (OTOP) project in terms of livelihood improvement were distributed unequally across the village. The information from the qualitative and quantitative data revealed that the OTOP project improved slightly the livelihood outcomes of villagers in the group which fully participated in the scheme. By contrast, the villagers who were aware of OTOP but did not participate used their right to borrow funds to make independent investments and buy consumer goods. Members of this group were thus unable to repay their loans on time, had no return on their investment and had the highest amount of debt. Those villagers who were unaware of the OTOP scheme and did not participate were the poorest in the village. An analysis of this third group revealed that non-participation was largely due to a lack of access to information. Moreover, these families did not regard themselves as poor. They were happy with their simple life and did not perceive any benefit in participating in the pro-poor tourism project introduced by the Thai government. Pro-poor tourism may benefit the poor in many parts of the world; however, in the case of Thailand it works mainly as a catalyst to improve the overall livelihood outcome of the poor and cannot be expected to enhance the individual livelihoods of the poorest. This study contributes to the literature in various ways. First, it is the first of its kind to investigate thoroughly Thailand‘s pro-poor tourism development policy. Second, it has attempted to assess pro-poor tourism from many vantage points: international standards, livelihood impacts, and the assets and vulnerability of the poor. Third, the key success model developed from the outcome of the thesis can be used by Thailand and other developing countries in their efforts to develop more effective pro-poor tourism policies in the future.
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Ayuwathana, Suratath. "A Comparison of the Teaching of History in Teacher Colleges in the Metropolitan Region and Other Regions in Thailand." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331590/.
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The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze the teaching of history in teachers colleges in the Metropolitan region and other regions in Thailand. Variables examined in this study include the following: salary, teaching experience, degrees held, the number of graduate credit hours in history, the number of graduate credit hours in education, attendance at professional meetings, the number of publications, membership in professional organizations, the number of hours devoted to course preparations, teaching load, and teaching behaviors. The comparison is based on geographical location of the teachers colleges by region.
The survey instrument, after intensive review and validation by selected faculty both in Thailand and the United States, was distributed to the 180 history instructors in the teachers colleges in the six major regions of Thailand. The total number of responses was 138, or 76.7 per cent. The statistical procedures used in the analyses of data include frequency and percentage of responses, a chi square test of independence, t test, the Yates* correction for continuity, and Fisher's Exact Probability Test (2-tailed).
The data findings from this study indicate that there is a high degree of similarity between the respondents from the Metropolitan region and other regions' history instructors in Thai teachers colleges with respect to the majority of the criteria. Although some significant differences were found, it would be difficult to state that there is a difference between history instructors in the Metropolitan region and other regions groups. Recommendations are made for the history instruction programs in Thailand based on the responses from both groups and the information gathered from a review of the literature.
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King, Philip. "From periphery to centre shaping the history of the central peninsula /." Access electronically, 2006. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20070821.140808/index.html.
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Upton, David Robert. "A regional fission track study of Thailand : implications for thermal history and denudation." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325413.
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Hoshikawa, Keisuke. "History, Structure, Function and Topographical Control of Traditional Irrigation Systems in Northeast Thailand." Kyoto University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/147726.
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Kyoto University (京都大学)0048
新制・課程博士
博士(農学)
甲第10876号
農博第1382号
新制||農||887(附属図書館)
学位論文||H16||N3887(農学部図書室)
UT51-2004-G723
京都大学大学院農学研究科地域環境科学専攻
(主査)教授 小林 愼太郎, 教授 三野 徹, 教授 河地 利彦
学位規則第4条第1項該当
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Eklund, Chica. "The Art Subject in Thailand : A study about the role of the art subject in some schools in Thailand." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Education, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1463.
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Historically the art subject has never had a main role in the school education.
The main subjects in Sweden have been mathematics, Swedish and English, even if the other
subjects also have been important. Unfortunately the subject of art has been considered less
important. For a long time the art subject has been a subject that only teaches the students how to
paint in different ways, but lately it has been noticed that the art subject has more qualities, for
example concerning personal expressions. Now we can confirm that the art subject does have an
important role in the school world, but how big a role?
With the help from interviews and literature studies, this essay wants to show if this ideology
and knowledge already has been used in other countries, in this case Thailand. Through my
interviews and examinations I could confirm that the responders consider the art subject important
for the students’ creative thoughts and personal development. The question is: is this only an
opinion or is it something that has already been used? My practise in the Thai schools has therefore
been useful for me in this essay, since I could closely study the art subject, and see everything with
my own eyes.
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Luangaram, Pongsak. "Asset prices, leverage and financial crisis : the case of Thailand." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2497/.
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The first part of this thesis examines the role of highly-leveraged institution in creating vulnerability in the financial system. By applying the framework of Kiyotaki and Moore (1997), Chapter 2 shows that when an asset price bubble bursts which cuts the value of land being used as collateral, the sudden fall in collateral value can create the possibility that firms’ net worth is entirely wiped out and the whole financial system collapse. This is due to the powerful feedback effects where forced selling further depresses prices, setting in motion a downward spiral of asset prices and loan recalls. We then show how wholesale financial collapse can be avoided by co-ordinated loan roll-overs in the form of a general financial freeze; and how the breathing space gained in this way can be used to arrange for loan write-downs or capital injections. In Chapter 3, the degree of corporate leverage is analysed more explicitly by introducing margin requirements into the model and two types of adverse shocks are examined numerically, an asset bubble bursting and a sudden rise in real interest rates. We find that when the economy is highly leveraged, a small shock to real interest rates can have powerful impacts on asset prices and cause widespread bankruptcy of the credit-constrained sector. To shed light on the recent debate on the role of prudential regulatory policies in mitigating the impact of a bubble bursting, we show that relaxing margin requirements can be used as a form of ‘regulatory forbearance’ for avoiding and/or reducing the knock-on effects. The second part of the thesis is a case study of Thailand. Chapter 4 provides a detailed account of Thailand economic developments from 1988 to 1998; it is argued that the nature of Thai financial crisis lied in the profound boom and burst in real estate sector which played a central role in creating tensions in the financial system and ultimately causing severe contraction of the economic activity. Chapter 5 explores some key issues relating to systemic bankruptcy of the corporate sector in aftermath of the Thai crisis.
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Lerskullawat, Attasuda. "Financial development and monetary policy transmission : the case of Thailand." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4797/.
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This thesis aims to examine the channels of monetary policy transmission relating to the banking sector (mainly the bank lending channel, firm balance sheet channel and the interest rate channel), and also to investigate the effect of financial development on these channels in Thailand. We first examine the bank lending channel by introducing the micro-data based study (bank panel data) and using the panel data estimation (fix effect, 2SLS, and GMM estimation). Our result confirms the theoretical aspect of the bank lending channel and we also found that the higher the banks’ size, liquidity, and capitalization will weaken the bank lending channel. The second study will investigate the firm balance sheet channel by examining the effect of firms’ financial condition on firms’ investment and using the GMM estimation. We also found that the less financial constraint firms will have a weaker effect of monetary policy via the firm balance sheet channel than the more financial constraint ones. The third study will examine the interest rate channel by focusing on the interest rate pass-through and using the VECM cointegration technique. We found the pass-through in both long-run and short-run with a relatively high degree in long-run than short-run. For the effect of financial development, we found that banking sector development, capital market development, financial liberalization, financial innovation, and financial competition will cause a weaker effect of the policy interest rate via the bank lending channel and the firm balance sheet channel. However, all of these different aspects of financial development (except the banking sector development) shown a stronger effect on the interest rate pass-through and hence strengthen the interest channel.
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Chaowichitra, Jiravadee. "South-East Asia College: History, Development, Problems, and Issues Related to Achieving University Status." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277644/.
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The purpose of this study is to describe the history, development, problems, and issues related to achieving university status of South-East Asia College from 1974 to 1993. This historical research used records and documents from South-East Asia College and the Association of Private Higher Education Institutions of Thailand as primary sources. Also interviews with the president, faculty and staff of South-East Asia College were used. Secondary Sources were reports and publications from the Ministry of University Affairs in Thailand. The areas of emphasis in the study were government policies on private higher education, legislation that initiated the founding of the college, the founder, the college's goals, financial sources, curriculum, library, faculty, students, and buildings. It was found that the Thai government encourages the establishment of private higher education institutions. The Private Higher Educational Institution Act of 1979 was enacted to allow private universities to be equal to government universities. South-East Asia College was founded in 1974 by the Khunya Plak Muanpiew Foundation with the purpose of training Thai students for industrial technologies and business sectors. The college requested university status in April, 1987. The first attempt was turned down. Four areas not meeting the requirements were the library, faculty, students, and buildings. The college made a second request in December, 1991, and the change in status of South-East Asia College to South-East Asia University was approved in March, 1992. Suggestion for further study include: (a) the study is limited to one private university; a further investigation should be made of the other private institutions; and (b) a study should be conducted to identify factors which will contribute to the future development of South-East Asia University.
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Vongsinsirikul, Visanu. "Understanding the impact of gambling with special reference to Thailand." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/804/.
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This thesis mainly consists of three empirical chapters related to understanding the characteristics, economic impact and the demand for gambling in Thailand. Beginning with a review of the theoretical and empirical literature, this confirms that socio-economic and demographic data are important determinants of the level of gambling participation and gambling expenditure. A Logit model is then used to estimate the participation of gambling. The results suggest that the number games, such as the government lottery, the underground lottery, are popular among old gamblers whereas football betting is popular for adolescents. In the past, most casino customers were old gamblers, but at present the number of young gamblers who participate in casino has considerably increased. A Tobit model is employed to estimate the level of gambling frequency and gambling expenditure. The estimations reveal that there is a “supplementation effect” of casino on other gambling types and the effect also appears among the number games. The gambling expenditures on the number games are high in the group of gamblers who have undergraduate degree or lower while the expenditures on casino and football betting are high in the group of gamblers who have undergraduate degree. However, a higher education level leads to a lower level of gambling expenditures. The focus is then centred on the 2-3 digit lottery. The rational addiction model is tested for the case of the 2-3 digit lottery. In the addiction framework, the 2-3 digit lottery is found to be an addictive goods and the addiction is “myopic addiction”. This finding is confirmed by Instrumental Variable estimation.
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Niyomsilpa, Sakkarin. "Thailand's security relationship with China : implications and prospects." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110880.
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Threat perceptions or perceptions of national security are products of a
process involving various dimensions. This process involves a political and
bureaucratic process or a "structural dimension" through which foreign policy is
formulated. There are four main factors contributing to the formation of threat
perceptions and concepts of national security. First, decision-makers themselves
shape the concept of national security by influencing the formation of threat
perceptions. Second, geopolitical character differentiates threat perceptions
among states which have different geographical settings. For example,
archipelago states are likely to regard their neighbours' maritime activities as a
threat. A country like Thailand, which shares thousands of kilometres of
common borders with its neighbours cannot help but feel vulnerable to land-based
threats. Third, historical experience is another major dimension in the formation
process of threat perceptions. Fourth, the socio-cultural dimension which
comprises ethnic, religious and social values also influences threat perceptions.
Malaysian and Indonesian attitudes towards China are affected by the presence of
ethnic Chinese in their own countries, as well as by past experiences. These
variables will, to varying degrees, influence the conceptualisation of threat
perception and a state's view of its national security. Each state, like an
individual, will "perceive phenomena with varying degrees of fidelity and distortion". A state, henceforth, will react and behave according to its perception
of national security and will try to minimise those perceived threats.
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Tran, Jade D. "Charming the Image of the Buddha: A Brief Look at the Relationship Between Birthdays and the Amulet Collecting Tradition in Thailand." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1261422416.
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Cholachatpinyo, Anothai. "Towards a conceptual model for the apparel industry in Thailand focused on domestic fashion origination." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2004. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/5939/.
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This thesis has several strands relating to the future prospects of the Thai fashion industry, which has undergone recent instability in the context of the global fashion system. They presuppose a reorientation and/or development of the domestic economy and culture of consumption of Thailand to favour innovation, originality and personal identity. The thesis will present an argument based upon the creation of conceptual models derived in part from existing models and theories, from literature surveys and empirical studies. A new framework to conceptualise the fashion process in Thailand called, the Thai Fashion Process Model is presented. Through the process of the comparative studies, the fashion process in the West is set against that which exists in Thailand. The Western fashion process model integrates much previous research about the fashion process, fills important gaps that the symbolic interactionist theory of fashion omits, and makes a number of new predictions about the translation of social trends into specific lifestyles and individual differences within the commodification process. The model purposes two important fashion forces: the differentiating force and the socialising force. These operate at different levels (macro and micro) and through different fashion practitioners. The empirical studies gathered data tor analysis through interview and questionnaire surveys at the micro-level in both the UK and Thailand within the context of the conceptual framework. Additional data tor analysis was also gathered relative to the macro-level. The studies provide excellent support for the reconceptualisation and, in particular, suggest that individual psychological factors might be given a new prominence in the overall fashion process and the way in which new fashions emerge. The new Thai Fashion Process Model presents a different direction in the fashion change sequence, which implies a reorientation of the industry towards a high priority in domestic fashion origination and innovation. The socio-cultural economic changes require a refocusing towards individual or segmented consumers' motivation, needs, and desires as opposed to the conformity that exists in contemporary Thai society in its domestic consumption.
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Shusawat, Sonsak. "Ending the state of war between Thailand and the United Kingdom : international negotiations and Thai domestic politics, 1945-47." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325348.
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Taraga, Petchompoo. "Thailand, ASEAN and the Kampuchean problem from 1979 to 1986." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110698.
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The situation in Kampuchea has been an interesting issue in
international politics. The Kampuchean people have been battered and
exposed to foreign domination for the past five hundred years. After
such a long period, however, peace is still not at hand. Moreover,since
the 1970s the country has faced three major events: US bombings that
started in 1970 and culminated in 1973; the inhumane evacuation of
towns and mass executions under the Pol Pot regime (1975-1978); and the
war between the SRV and the. Kampuchean resistance groups since 1979.
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Panarut, Charn. "Sports in Pre-Modern and Early Modern Siam: Aggressive and Civilised Masculinities." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17747.
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This thesis is a contribution to two bodies of scholarship: first, the historical understanding of the modernisation process in Siam; second, one of the central bodies of scholarship used to analyse sport sociologically – Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning’s study. Previous studies of the emergence of a more civilised form of manner in modern Siam highlight the imitation of Western civilised conducts, overlooking the continued role of violence in this change in Siamese behaviour from the pre-modern to modern periods. According to evidence, from around the 1900s, Siamese elites engaged in deliberate projects to civilise prevalent non-elites’ aggressive conducts. This, in turn, has implications for the Eliasian understanding of sports and civilising process, which emphasises their unplanned development in Europe, at the expense of grasping the deliberate interventions of the Siamese elites. To fill this gap, I apply the concept of the “civilising offensive” to underline the planned process of civilisation. The thesis discusses how aggressive masculinity was expressed legitimately during the pre-modern age, and how this violent behaviour was transformed by the elites’ promotions of civilising plans and sports under contexts of colonisation and nation-state building processes. I examine how civilised self-images were produced from interactions between Siamese elites, non-elites and Westerners. I use autobiographies, government documents, newspapers, match reports, chronicles, poems, travel writings and so on to explore first-hand accounts of behaviours, identities and values related to the presence of violence in sports and politics. From the 1820s onward, Westerners used what they perceived to be their higher civilisation standards as an excuse to interfere in Asia. In response to the Westerners’ perceptions of the Siamese as barbarous, Siamese elites promoted civilised identities through sports and education. In the 1900s, to avoid being shamed, the non-elites learned to act in a civilised manner temporarily when interacting with elites and Westerners in sports fields. The civilising effect of interdependence between these actors showed that planned and unplanned processes of civilisation coexisted in Siam.
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Clarke, Wesley S. "Return to P'ong Tuk: Preliminary Reconnaissance of a Seminal Dvaravati Site in West-central Thailand." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1321396671.
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Banchuen, Woraphat. "A comparative study of product placement in movies in the United States and Thailand." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3265.
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The purpose of this research was to compare the presence of product placement in movies across two different cultures, namely the U.S. and Thailand. In particular, this research examined the frequency of product placement in movies, the position of product placement in movies, and the target audiences in the U.S. and Thailand.
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Semmahasak, Chutiwalanch. "Towards sustainable water management in North West Thailand : a governance and sociospatial relations approach." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4708/.
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This thesis focuses on local water institutions and practical management arrangements in North West Thailand through the lens of governance in order to begin to establish how the transition to more sustainable water management might be undertaken. Adaptive governance is advanced as a potent means of delivering more sustainable management by providing the flexibility and adaptability to respond to abrupt environmental change, while enhancing participatory and learning opportunities for stakeholders. Insights from the literature on socio-spatial relations are employed to compliment the use of governance concepts by providing insight into the territorial organization of water supply and delivery within the study area, specifically the all-important role of space and socio-spatial relations on day-to-day water management. Data collection methods comprised: (i) 192 face-to-face in-depth semi-structured interviews with key actors; (ii) 20 questionnaires distributed to actors from Joint Management Committee for Irrigation (JMC); (iii) four group discussions with actors from a state-led irrigation project; and (iv) 20 remote interviews with four administrator groups. The analysis identifies the importance of ‘middle ground’ organization as a strategic policy goal to encourage more sustainable water management, set against the pragmatic reality of escalating future demand for water from multiple users at different levels and scales.
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Shane, Jeffrey. "The Russian Revolution in the Eyes of a Thai Royal." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou150211893501528.
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Vogler, Pia Maria. "Translocal identities : an ethnographic account of the political economy of childhood transitions in northern Thailand." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:046dc27e-fa91-4f1d-9e1f-0ce057db6ebb.
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This thesis examines Karen childhood transitions in a context of expansion of the cash economy, formal education and modern institutions. Since the 1960s, Thai state development has had a significant impact on the organisation of work and learning among highland populations. Today, household economies largely depend on cash income and children aspire towards an adult life in which paid work is central. Formal education is highly valued as a means to reach this goal. Children often migrate for education to better-resourced locations and access scholarships provided by national and international institutions. On the basis of 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork undertaken between October 2007 and September 2009, the thesis seeks to understand the effects of globalisation on politically and economically marginalized children in northern Thailand through the lens of changing modes of production and learning. Findings indicate that children’s migration for education reflects broad political economic inequalities among Karen households as well as between them and mainstream Thai lowland populations. International dimensions of unequal relations are revealed in local peoples’ collective negotiations with Japanese and Catholic Christian NGOs. Although socio-cultural constructs like ‘gender’, ‘generation’, and ‘ethnicity’ shape Karen childhoods, this study found that their economic and political status are more fundamental in shaping all aspects of their social lives, including their socio-cultural identities. Childhood transitions emerge as multidimensional learning processes towards mastery of ‘translocal identities’, the skill to manage identities and relationships across multiple spaces and institutions. This is a culturally valued skill evidenced when minority children tactfully negotiate differing modes of compliance, resistance, and adaptation, especially in the domains of work and education. Thus, children participate in the moulding of local versions of the modern political economy of northern Thailand.
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Soon, Simon Sien Yong. "What is Left of Art? The Spatio‐Visual Practice of Political Art in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines, 1950s–1970s." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14186.
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What is Left of Art? begins with a simple question about the place of art during a period of great socio-political transformation. How did artists respond to the upheaval brought about by modern political changes? Where was art located in times of moral and political crises? In my research, I take the left-leaning political art movements in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines as case studies, looking at the period from 1950s – 1970s. This thesis makes an original contribution to the critical inquiry of left-leaning political art through a comparative study that posits discursive affinity of this form of art practice across four countries that have hitherto not been considered collectively. Instead of focusing on analysing the meaning behind the works of art or simply providing a descriptive historical account of these movements, I have identified three domains of political art for productive inquiry. These are the organisation, the text and the street. While these components, and the artistic strategies explored within them, were not exclusive to Southeast Asian modern art, as demonstrated by the social art histories in many other different contexts, the specific conditions of post-war Southeast Asia produce a common historical experience. It underlines the significance of historical structure in shaping the character of politicisation of art in Southeast Asia. My thesis explores how these domains of political art could be understood as strategies explored by the cultural left to rethink received discourses and institutions of modern art in order to engender a different aesthetic paradigm centered on the commitment towards the people. Often these include re-imagining how art constituted a spatio-visual practice that shaped or intervened in modern urban spaces. The street in this sense represents a significant trope and site of engagement with a broader public. Through this reading, I hope to demonstrate the terms of artistic production through which I am able to make visible an archaeology of political and ideological pressures that shape the artistic modernities of post-war Southeast Asia.
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Nilsson, Erik. "Waves of change : traditional religion among the Urak Lawoi, sea nomads of Ko Lanta, Thailand." Thesis, University of Gävle, Ämnesavdelningen för kultur- och religionsvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-6359.
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This essay is the result of a field study in Ko Lanta in Thailand, during October-December 2009. The purpose of the study was to document the traditional religion of Urak Lawoi and to analyze in what way their life and beliefs have changed during the last 20 years.
Urak Lawoi is the name of one of the sea nomadic ethnic groups who lives along the shores of Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia. They are spread on many of the islands in the Andaman Sea archipelago and Ko Lanta is the main settlement. Ural Lawoi is regarded as the indigenous people of the island and they live there as a minority with Muslims and Thai-Chinese.
The traditional religion of Urak Lawoi is built upon the animistic belief of their ancestors. The religious leader and link between the spirit world and the humans is the To Maw. The family bonds are strong in the Urak Lawoi community and the elders play an important role in life and after death, when they can keep on watching out for their offspring. For the living it is important to do the rituals and ceremonies in the right way to obtain good luck and avoid bad luck.
In the last 20 years Ko Lanta has experienced a tremendous process of change caused by the increasing tourism. The conditions of the Urak Lawoi and their way of life have dramatically changed. The modern society with money economy, new technical solutions and a rationalized large-scale fishing has rapidly changed their way of life. The tsunami catastrophe, and the following attention from help organizations and missionary activities, has escalated the process. The traditional religion and culture of the Urak Lawoi is still present on the island but it is declining and changing under the influence of the constant pressure from other interests.
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Roehrkasse, Eric. "United States Air Force Military Civic Action in Thailand, 1964-1976: Modernization, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Military Doctrine." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/201106.
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This thesis examines the relationship between foreign policy and military doctrine, specifically the problems that arise when military doctrine is politicized and the military is used as an instrument of diplomatic or economic power rather than military power. It contains original research on the conduct of military civic action (MCA) by the United States Air Force in Thailand from 1964 until 1976, based largely on archival material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency. MCA has been an element of counterinsurgency doctrine since President Kennedy directed it in 1961, a role often labeled "nation-building." Like Kennedy's foreign policy, MCA had its intellectual origins in the social scientific concept of modernization theory. MCA represents the politicization of military doctrine, a method of employing forces based on social scientific theory rather than military experience. As a result of this and the realities on the ground in Thailand, the objectives of MCA did not fit the context of the Thai situation, training did not provide necessary cultural awareness, and execution was haphazard. Ultimately, the USAF failed to achieve the policy goals of MCA in Thailand. Today the U.S. continues to employ military manpower in the diplomatic, economic, and information realms while only training service members in their core specialty. Policymakers and military leaders need to determine whether to sacrifice proficiency in core specialties to enhance cultural and diplomatic skills or to rely more on those agencies traditionally responsible for those instruments of national power.
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Brill, Dominik [Verfasser], Helmut [Akademischer Betreuer] Brückner, and Olaf [Akademischer Betreuer] Bubenzer. "The tsunami history of southwest Thailand - Recurrence, magnitude and impact of palaeotsunamis inferred from onshore deposits / Dominik Brill. Gutachter: Helmut Brückner ; Olaf Bubenzer." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1038267811/34.
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Nilsson, Erik. "Forces of change : A theoretical analysis of syncretism between Theravada Buddhism and animistic indigenous beliefs in Thailand." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för kultur-, religions- och utbildningsvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-8073.
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Urak Lawoi is the name of one of the sea nomadic tribes which lives along the shores of Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia. They are spread on many of the islands in the Andaman Sea archipelago and Ko Lanta is the main settlement. Urak Lawoi is regarded as the indigenous people of the island and they live there as a minority together with Muslims and Thai-Chinese. The traditional religion and culture of Urak Lawoi is built upon the animistic belief of their ancestors. In the last 20 years Ko Lanta has experienced a tremendous process of change caused by increasing tourism. The conditions of the Urak Lawoi and their way of life have dramatically changed. The fact that this process brings consequences for the traditional culture and religion is obvious, but in what direction is it developing? To be able to interpret and expound the material from my field studies among Urak Lawoi on Ko Lanta in October-December 2009, I have done a literature search to investigate the animistic traditions and the syncretistic nature of belief in Thailand. I have also tried to find theories about the process of religious change and the forces working behind them. In this essay I am trying to do a theoretical analysis of the field study material using theories and parallel examples I have found in the literature.
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Thaitakoo, Doosadee. "Balanced conservation in town centres of historic cities : the case of Ayutthaya, Thailand." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.427133.
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Chansiri, Noppamas. "The Historic Canal System in Bangkok, Thailand: Guidelines for Reestablishing Public Space Functions." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33089.
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This thesis proposes guidelines for reestablishing the historic canal system on Rattanakosin Island, Bangkok as a public space system and a connector of key public spaces. The study examines the historic value and cultural symbolism of the canals through evolutionary morphological analysis, establishing that the canals are primary structural elements in the city, since they have retained the integrity of their physical form over time, and have come to hold cultural meaning for the Thai people. The canals have also accommodated different functions over time, in response to a changing urban context. There is potential for them to accept new functions as recreational spaces, connectors of key public spaces, and as tourist destinations.
Typological analysis of structural characteristics of the canals yields seven canal types that have potential to accommodate public space functions. The study proposes guidelines for the seven canal types that will enhance these potentials and ensure the preservation of the canals' physical form.
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Chiraratn, Patarakitti. "A statement of significance for old Phuket Thai-Hua school, Thailand." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42183492.
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Rattanasengchanh, Phimmasone M. "Thai Hearts and Minds: The Public Diplomacy and Public Relations Programs of the United States Information Service and Thai Ministry of Interior." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1553159962832204.
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Kittayapong, Rungsaeng. "The origins of Thailand's modern Ministry of Justice and its early development." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/30d2a0db-bf16-4ed1-923c-ee972836768d.
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Itoh, Ayako. "The emergence of the bhikkhunī-saṅgha in Thailand : Contexts, Strategies and Challenges." Paris, EPHE, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013EPHE5015.
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On témoigne un nombre important de chercheurs thaïlandais et occidentaux qui ont débattu du caractère légitime ou non de l’émergence d’un bhikkhunī-saṅgha de tradition Theravāda, depuis l’Ordination Mineure (pabbajjā) de la Vénérable Dhammanandā en 2001. En revanche, on a porté peu d’attention à la vie, à la pratique, aux motivations et au discours tenu par un nombre croissant de ces femmes qui reçoivent l’Ordination Mineure et même l’Ordination Majeure (upasampadā), de même qu’on n’a peu porté attention au contexte dans lequel leur choix individuel s’est déterminé et réalisé au cours de la dernière décennie. L’interdiction de conférer une ordination monastique à des femmes pour qu’elles deviennent sāmaṇerī ou bhikkhunī, affirmée en 1928 par le Suprême Patriarche du saṅgha Thaï, est toujours en vigueur. Pourtant, il y aurait à ce jour 31 bhikkhunī et 37 sāmaṇerī en Thaïlande. En outre, entre 2008 et 2011, 250 femmes ont pris la robe de façon temporaire en tant que sāmaṇerī au Wat Songdhammakalyani – le monastère de Bhikkhunī Dhammanandā dans la province de Nakhon Pathom, à l'ouest de Bangkok – et 76 autres femmes ont étés ordonnées au Centre de Méditation de Nirotharam, à Chiang Mai, où l'auteur a conduit la plus grande partie de son travail de terrain. L’acceptation de l’Ordination Mineure et de l’Ordination Majeure, même si elles demeurent officieuses, conférées à des femmes par une fraction de la société, reflète l’existence de dissonances dans l’identité même de la tradition Theravāda Thaï, en même temps que l’extension réelle d’un phénomène qui concerne tous les acteurs du Bouddhisme Theravāda. La présente recherche ne prétend pas se prononcer sur la légitimité de l’émergence d’un bhikkhunī-saṅgha ni, au contraire, sur la déviance qu’elle représenterait du point de vue traditionnel du Bouddhisme Theravāda thaïlandais. Elle prend acte d’un phénomène existant qui constitue un objet d’étude, et essaye de comprendre qui sont ces femmes bouddhistes qui semblent prendre des sentiers subversifs consistant à devenir bhikkhunī. Elle examine comment un bhikkhunī-saṅgha a commencé d’exister de facto et à s'ancrer dans la société et quelle est, enfin, la base de son acceptation sociale. En découvrant l’histoire personnelle de ces femmes qui reçoivent l’ordination, leur vie quotidienne et les réseaux laïcs et monastiques qui les soutiennent, on comprendra que le contexte sur lequel se déploie ce phénomène ne peut en aucune façon se réduire aux discours féministes sur l'égalité des genres mais qu’il est plutôt le résultat d'un dialogue complexe et permanente entre la société Thaï et le Bouddhisme Theravāda dans un monde en constante globalisationAn important number of Thai as well as Western scholars have debated over the legitimacy, or lack thereof, of the emergence of the defacto bhikkhunī-saṅgha in the Theravāda tradition, especially since the taking of Lower ordination, or pabbajjā, of Bhikkhunī Dhammanandā in 2001. At the same time, little attention has been paid to the lives, practice, motives and discourses of the growing number of women who are actually taking pabbajjā and upasampadā, Higher ordination, and the contexts in which their individual choices have been made and carried out during the past decade. The interdiction to ordain women for sāmaṇerī or bhikkhunī as proclaimed in 1928 by the Supreme Patriarch of the Thai saṅgha is still theoretically in effect today. Yet, the latest numbers show that there are currently 31 bhikkhunī and 37 sāmaṇerī throughout Thailand. Moreover, from 2008-2011 250 women took temporary sāmaṇerī-hood in Watr Songdhammakalyani, the monastery of Bhikkhunī Dhammanandā in Nakhon Pathom province, west of Bangkok, and 76 women in the Nirotharam Meditation Center in Chiang Mai City, where the author conducted most of her fieldwork. However unofficial, the acceptance of females taking both Lower and Higher ordination by a certain segment of society reflects the existing dissonance over the identity of contemporary Thai Theravāda tradition, and the expansion of such phenomenon, which concerns all stakeholders of Theravāda Buddhism. This study does not aim to argue whether the emerging bhikkhunī-saṅgha is legitimate or deviant from the traditional viewpoint of Thai Theravāda. It takes the existing phenomenon as an object of study and tries to understand who these Buddhist women are who are seemingly on a subversive path, what it means for them to become bhikkhunī, how the defacto bhikkhunī-saṅgha started to take root, and what the grounds are for its social acceptance. Unveiling life histories of these women, their everyday life, and their lay and monastic networks lead us to have a grasp that feminist discourses on gender equality can hardly explain the full context behind this phenomenon, but is rather the result of a more complex and historical dialogue between Thai society and Theravāda Buddhism in an ever-globalizing world
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黃德怡 and Tak-yee Debbie Wong. "How to tell a good story: the interpretation and presentation of heritage houses in Bangkok, Macau and Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31464038.
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Vachon, Jean-Daniel. "Preparing for the unknown : the livelihood strategies of the displaced Karen from Burma in times of decreasing humanitairian aid in Thailand." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/37254.
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Tableau d’honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, 2019-2020.Prenant comme ancrage le contexte actuel de diminution de l'aide humanitaire amenée aux réfugiés installés du côté thaï de la frontière thaïe-birmane, cette recherche vise à documenter la (ré)organisation des stratégies de subsistance des réfugiés karen vivant dans cette région en réaction à la diminution de l'aide humanitaire qu'ils reçoivent. Le cadre théorique sousjacent cette recherche est l'approche des livelihood adaptée au contexte spécifique des réfugiés, auquel est ajouté l'espoir comme élément analytique permettant de considérer dans l'analyse l'imagination, les projets et les visions du futur des réfugiés. Les résultats montrent que les stratégies de subsistance des réfugiés karen sont profondément diversifiées et profondément influencées par l'état spécifique de vulnérabilité dans lequel ils se retrouvent lorsque cherchant refuge en Thaïlande. Les réfugiés, autant dans et hors des camps de réfugiés officiels, misent fortement sur la mobilité, l'éducation et les opportunités de travail pour acquérir ou améliorer leurs compétences et savoirs professionnels, leur permettant d'espérer un meilleur futur. Au final, cette recherche met en évidence l'agencéité, la résilience, et la soif d'autosuffisance des réfugiés, plaidant pour qu'ils soient considérés comme des acteurs actifs et des décideurs lorsqu'il est question de problématiques les concernant.
Taking as anchor the current context of decreasing humanitarian aid brought to refugees settled on the Thai side of the Thai-Burma border, this research aims to document the (re)organization of the livelihood strategies of the Karen refugees living in this region in reaction to the decreasing humanitarian aid they receive. The theoretical framework underlying this research is the livelihood approach adapted to the specific context of refugees, to which is added hope as an analytical element, allowing for the consideration of refugees' imagination, projects and visions of the future into the analysis. Results show that Karen refugees' livelihoods are deeply diversified and deeply influenced by the specific state of vulnerability they find themselves in when seeking refuge in Thailand. Refugees, both inside and outside of the official refugee camps, heavily bet on mobility, education and work opportunities to acquire or improve their professional skills and knowledge, allowing them to hope of a better future. In the end, this research highlights Karen refugees' agency, resilience and thirst for self-sufficiency, and advocates for them to be considered as active actors and decision makers when it comes to issues affecting them.
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Baron-gutty, Audrey. "Paradigme politique et évolution des institutions éducatives : Le cas d’une société non-occidentale : la Thaïlande." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LYO20109/document.
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Les systèmes éducatifs dans leur ensemble sont repensés à l’aune de logiques comptables et de notions de rendement. En parallèle de ces réformes, l’éducation, du primaire au supérieur, est également poussée à satisfaire des attentes politiques, économiques et sociales de plus en plus grandes. Cette vague de transformations entraîne des questionnements quant aux origines et à l’évolution de l’éducation moderne. Si la consolidation des Etats-Nations et la monopolisation scolaire de l’instruction semblent être allées de pair en Europe, comment expliquer que l’on trouve la même forme scolaire dans des territoires situés en dehors de cet Occident ? Et comment rendre compte de l’univocité des trajectoires éducatives des territoires jusqu’aux changements actuels des institutions éducatives ?Notre réflexion s’est attachée à montrer que les formes univoques prises par l’éducation à travers le monde ne résultent pas d’un développementalisme éducatif linéaire ou de la domination du colonisateur européen. Premièrement, le passé et les jeux politiques, religieux et économiques des sociétés non-occidentales jouèrent un rôle dans la construction de leur école moderne. Ensuite, l’influence d’un paradigme politique dominant en termes d’institutions éducatives a délimité le cadre du changement. Il en a fixé des fondamentaux et exclu d’autres possibles. Mais la société réceptrice a, à son tour, refaçonné le paradigme pour construire un système éducatif pluriel, mouvant et unique.Nous avons étayé notre réflexion en étudiant un cas empirique précis, celui de la Thaïlande, et en mêlant une étude socio-historique et politique à un travail de terrain approfondi. Ceci nous a permis de rendre compte de la trajectoire éducative et des changements de paradigmes politiques qui ont conduit ce territoire à passer des enseignements traditionnels à une éducation de l’Etat-Nation et aujourd’hui à celle de la mondialisationWorldwide, educational systems have been reshaped on the basis of accountability and efficiency criteria. Together with these reforms, education, from basic to higher levels, has also been summoned up to meet ever-increasing political, economic and social demands. These shifts lead to several questionings regarding the origins and evolutions of modern education: If the consolidation of nation-states and the monopolisation of instruction by schools seem to have occurred concomitantly in Europe, how can we explain that we have found the same school pattern in territories located outside this West? And how can we account for the univocity of trajectories until the current changes in educational institutions?Our study focused on demonstrating that these similar patterns taken by education around the world have not resulted from an educational, linear development or from the domination of the European settler. First, the past and political, religious and economic games in non-Western societies played a role in shaping modern schools. Then the impact of a dominant policy paradigm has been tremendous in delineating the framework of change, even until today. Policy paradigm indeed establishes fundamentals and excludes other possibilities. However the receiving society eventually reshapes this paradigm to build a moving, unique, plural educational system.We have backed up our thinking by focusing on a specific empirical case, Thailand, and by combining a socio-historical and political analysis to an in-depth fieldwork. The aim was to understand the educational trajectory and the shifts in policy paradigms that have led this territory from traditional teachings to a Nation-State education, and nowadays an education of globalisation
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Techaniyom, Chotika. "L'enseignement bouddhique et le rôle du roi en Thaïlande." Thesis, Paris, INALCO, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013INAL0013.
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L’étude des Jâtaka canoniques destinés au monarque et celle des Jâtaka apocryphes de Thaïlande montrent que le personnage-monarque qui commet des actions néfastes peut améliorer sa conduite grâce aux messages essentiels transmis par le maître. Le monarque-Bodhisatta pratique à la fois les dix-vertus du monarque - Dasa-râjâ-dhamma et les dix vertus transcendantes du futur Buddha - Pârami. Ces études dévoilent que le monarque bouddhiste doit suivre les deux principaux cadres de conduite : les dix-vertus du monarque et les devoirs du roi universel – Cakkavatti-vatta qui s’interpénètrent. Influencé par les enseignements bouddhiques, le roi Rama IX de Thaïlande prouve en les adoptant que ces codes de conduite sont applicables en les adaptant à sa charge afin d’améliorer la qualité de vie de son peuple. Ces enseignements conviennent à tous, du chef d’Etat à celui qui se gouverne lui-mêmeThe study of the canonical Jâtaka intended for the monarchy together with the apocryphal Jâtaka in Thailand demonstrates that the monarch who commits harmful actions can rectify his conduct thanks to the essential messages passed on by a Buddhist Master. The Bodhisatta-monarch employs the ten virtues of the monarch - Dasa-râjâ-dhamma - and the ten transcendental virtues of the future Buddha -Pârami. These studies reveal that the Buddhist monarch should follow the two main courses of conduct : the ten virtues of the monarch and the duties of a universal monarch - Cakkavatti-vatta – which interpenetrate. Influenced by the Buddhist teachings, King Rama IX of Thailand adopted these precepts in the execution of his kingly responsibilities and, by improving the quality of life of his subjects, proved their pertinence. The teachings are applicable to all, from Heads of State to the self-governing individual
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Barmé, Scot. "Towards a social history of Bangkok : gender, class and popular culture in the Siamese capital - 1905-1940." Phd thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/145985.
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Dilokvidhyarat, Tamthai. "State numeracy : a history of the recording of information in Siam 1890-1925." Phd thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151006.
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From the last decade of the nineteenth century, the Siamese government developed many kinds of systems for recording empirical information in order to support the modern state administration. During the 1890s, the government began to register households in order to count the number of people in each locality. With such information, the government could collect taxes directly from the people, maintain law and order within the country and take care of the people's life more closely. After the registration of households was applied throughout the kingdom, the government took another step. In the 1900s, the government began to conduct a census. In 1904, the first census was taken, but its study area was limited to only twelve out of nineteen administrative provinces. It was only in 1909 that the first census was conducted for the whole country. The information received from the census not only provided the government with the number of people that could be used for conscription, more importantly, it was also very useful for the merchants who wanted to do business in the country. While preparing for the first census in Siam, the government also worked on another system for recording information: vital statistics. Such information helped the government improve public health conditions in Bangkok and other provinces which had worsened after Siam merged into the network of international trade. Although information collected by this recording instrument was far from accurate, vital statistics helped the state take care of its people in a way that the government in previous eras could not. Finally, after spending twenty years developing the system for recording information, the government decided to establish a department responsible for collecting empirical information. In 1915, the Department of Commerce and Statistics was founded. Its primary task was to collect every kind of empirical data that the government needed for developing the country to meet the higher level of development. The reform of the systems for recording information might be considered by some historians as a minor part of the administrative reforms, but it was very crucial in the political history of Siam. Firstly, development of the system for recording information allowed the central government to rule from a distance and enabled the state to extend its power to every part of its territory in order to develop itself into a modern nation-state. Secondly, the modern system for recording information provided the state with information that the state needed to perform its functions effectively. Lastly, the modern system for recording information objectified a "fact" about Thai society by providing a new vocabulary and a new way of thinking about politics and governing.
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Pornpibul, Kridsanah. "Differing views on the study of art history in Thailand." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148153.
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Hodges, Ian. "Time and the heavens in Thai historiography : astrology and the rise of dynastic historical writing in Siam." Master's thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144329.
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Vilaithong, Villa. "A cultural history of hygiene advertising in Thailand, 1940s - early 1980s." Phd thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148045.
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Swan, William L. "Japanese economic relations with Siam : aspects of their historical development 1884 to 1942." Phd thesis, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/128298.
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This study traces the course of Japanese economic relations with Siam from the
late 19th century, when Japanese began going to Siam for economic purposes follow -
ing the end of the Tokugawa Bakufu, to the beginning of the Pacific war, when Japan
was at the apex of its power in Southeast Asia and had formulated a new economic
policy towards Siam, one which dealt with Siam as a member of the Greater East Asia
Co-Prosperity Sphere. During the decades before the Pacific war, Japanese capital
investment in Siam remained negligible and trade was the most important feature of
economic relations between the two countries. This trade fell roughly into three phases:
ihe first and longest lasted until the onset of the Depression and was a period of gradual
trade growth, when Japanese products began to establish themselves in the Siamese
market; the second phase ran from around 1932 until 1937 during which Japan's
exports to Siam experienced an extraordinary expansion, a result of the Depression
which reduced Siamese purchasing power making low-priced Japanese products very
attractive and which made Japan Siam's preeminent trading partner; the third phase
started with the outbreak of the "China Incident" in mid 1937 and continued until the
outbreak of the Pacific war in December 1941, a period when political and military
factors began to affect Siam-Japan economic relations until by 1941 these factors, most
importantly the growing Japanese confrontation with Britain and the United States, were
able to completely reorient Japan's trade relations with Southeast Asia. This reorientation
took Siam from the position of an unimportant Southeast Asian trading partner with
Japan to one of the most if not the most important by 1941. The events of the months
surrounding the outbreak of the Pacific war are dealt with at some length as these make
up a period of great significance in Siam-Japan relations, culminating as it did in Siam's
alliance with Japan and finally its declaration of war on Britain and the United States.
Strong evidence is set forth from contemporary Siamese, Japanese and English
sources showing that the Siamese were not the reluctant Japanese ally as has come to
be commonly accepted since the war. In chapters nine through twelve, which discuss
this important period in Siam-Japan relations, a critique is made of the now accepted
postwar interpretation of Siam's relations with Japan at the time the Pacific war began.
It is argued that important postwar Siamese memoirs and reminiscences have not been
forthright in their rendering of events with Japan at the beginning of the war, and that the
Siamese government, especially Phibun, was ready to commit Siam totally to the
Japanese side by the second day of the war. This study ends with an investigation of
aspects of Japan's wartime economic relations with Siam. One was the introduction of a
wartime Japanese money system into Southeast Asia; a second was the negotiations
that took place during much of 1942 over the lending of baht to the Japanese to pay for
their expenditures in Siam during the war, both show that Japan recognized Siam as an
independent nation and an ally and accorded it distinctly different treatment from that
given to its occupied areas. Another aspect of wartime relations looked at is the intro -
duction of a new Japanese economic policy for Siam which was to pave the way for that
country's economic integration into the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The
approach taken in formulating this policy and its thrust followed the pattern that the
Japanese had employed from the time they began building their colonial empire in
Taiwan and Korea. For this reason it provides an indication of Japanese intentions for
Siam-Japan economic relations had the war gone in Japan's favour.
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Sweet, Kathryn. "Reinserting "Maem", a fragment of Thai history : white women in Siam 1860-1920." Master's thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/145932.
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"從"孤軍"到華人族群: 泰國北部原國民黨軍隊、眷屬及其後裔族群認同的民族誌研究." 2004. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896148.
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段穎."2004年7月".
論文(哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2004.
參考文獻 (leaves 198-206).
附中英文摘要.
"2004 nian 7 yue".
Duan Ying.
Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2004.
Can kao wen xian (leaves 198-206).
Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao.
Chapter 第一章 --- 導論 --- p.1
Chapter 一、 --- 引論 --- p.1
Chapter 二、 --- 東南亞華人研究文獻回顧：以泰國華人為專題 --- p.4
Chapter 三、 --- 研究問題與理論框架 --- p.13
Chapter 四、 --- 田野點的選擇及研究方法 --- p.22
Chapter 五、 --- 論文的敍述結構 --- p.27
Chapter 第二章 --- 第一代：逃離與生存 --- p.31
Chapter 一、 --- 中國解放，退入緬甸 --- p.32
Chapter 二、 --- 緬甸控訴，被迫撤臺 --- p.37
Chapter 三、 --- 武裝販毒，建村自治 --- p.41
Chapter 四、 --- 清剿泰共，解甲歸田 --- p.43
Chapter 五、 --- 去國還ˇёإ，安享晚年 --- p.48
Chapter 六、 --- 小結 --- p.52
Chapter 第三章 --- 第二代：定居與發展 --- p.56
Chapter 一、 --- 奔波泰緬，借土養命 --- p.58
Chapter 二、 --- 救總援助，發展農業 --- p.62
Chapter 三、 --- 土產加工，多種經營 --- p.67
Chapter 四、 --- 外出就業，赴臺求學 --- p.73
Chapter 五、 --- 歷史困擾，毒品問題 --- p.78
Chapter 六、 --- 小結 --- p.80
Chapter 第四章 --- 第三代：留守與出走 --- p.86
Chapter 一、 --- 生長於斯，泰華教育 --- p.87
Chapter 二、 --- 大陸/臺灣，想像家園 --- p.94
Chapter 三、 --- 泰中翻譯，市場需求 --- p.100
Chapter 四、 --- 城鄉差別，人口遷移 --- p.108
Chapter 五、 --- 小結 --- p.112
Chapter 第五章 --- 自治會與村委會：社會衝突與認同轉變 --- p.117
Chapter 一、 --- 軍隊傳統，威權統治 --- p.117
Chapter 二、 --- 村長-會長權益衝突 --- p.122
Chapter 三、 --- 國家介入，社會轉型 --- p.126
Chapter 四、 --- 小結 --- p.130
Chapter 第六章 --- 生命禮儀：婚喪、歲時中的族群認同 --- p.134
Chapter 一、 --- 中式婚禮：傳統與現代的交織 --- p.134
Chapter 二、 --- 傳統葬禮：以孝爲本，重義輕利 --- p.139
Chapter 三、 --- 中泰結合之葬禮：超度亡靈，造福子孫 --- p.144
Chapter 四、 --- 歲時與節氣：文化傳統，代代相傳 --- p.147
Chapter 五、 --- 觀音會：吃齋祈福，保佑平安 --- p.152
Chapter 六、 --- 關帝誕辰暨火把節：村寨清吉，招財進寳 --- p.154
Chapter 七、 --- 中元節：迎亡送亡，祖靈庇佑 --- p.158
Chapter 八、 --- 泰皇后華誕：入郷隨俗，普天同慶 --- p.160
Chapter 九、 --- 小結 --- p.162
Chapter 第七章 --- 華文學校：象徵與希望 --- p.169
Chapter 一、 --- 軍隊辦學，堅持不懈 --- p.169
Chapter 二、 --- 學校運作，師資經費 --- p.173
Chapter 三、 --- 教學困境，力求改革 --- p.177
Chapter 四、 --- 小結 --- p.180
Chapter 第八章 --- 結論 --- p.183
參考文獻 --- p.197
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Hill, Deborah Bonita. "Marking the skin tattooing the soul : the art, history and spirituality of traditional tattooing in Thailand." Phd thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/149983.
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Marking the Skin, Tattooing the Soul is a study of the traditional tattoo imagery in Thailand, a practice that involves the use of non-mechanical styli to puncture and insert ink under the skin. This study examines a range of popular motifs -figurative, diagrammatical and textual. It identifies historical and contemporary differences in style, placement, form and meaning across northern and central Thailand. For the tattooed Thai, the imagery and design have specific meaning and purpose and are the result of a ritualised process performed by a tattoo master. Through a close examination of historical and contemporary sources, combined with field research in Thailand in 2004 I develop a framework for understanding the meaning and variation in Thai tradition tattoo motifs. Key to this study is the identification of three kinds of tattoo practitioner. The variations in their practice and the tattoo imagery they create are found to be directly related to the cultural and particularly the religious backgrounds of the tattooists. This is explored in the extensive analysis of three types of tattooist -northern Shan shaman, central Thai Buddhist monk and the Brahmanic urban lay tattooist of Bangkok. This examination of the spiritual and cultural practice of different tattoo masters against a close visual analysis of the tattoo imagery they create allows me to develop an innovative and valuable framework for understanding Thai traditional tattooing imagery and practice historically and as it is practised in Thailand today.
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Peleggi, Maurizio. "The making of the Siamese monarchy's modern public image." Phd thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/145670.
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Tsukamoto, Takashi. "Encountering the other within : Thai national identity and the Malay-Muslims of the deep south." Phd thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/149900.
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This thesis contributes to the understanding of the role of the "Other within" in national identity formulation. It empirically explores the formulation of {u00E9}lite versions of Thai national identity with reference to the Malay-Muslims of the deep South from the turn of the twentieth century. The intent of the research is to illustrate how Malay-Muslims have necessarily been part of Thai national identity. This thesis aims to utilise the empirical data collected from specific periods of Thai history (the end of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries; the 1930s and the 1940s; the 1960s; the 1980s and the beginning of this century) so as to conceptualise national identity construction. It is based on the analyses of the language that national leaders, especially prime ministers, have used when discussing the South, and what this language reflects about the changing nature of Thai nationalism and official versions of Thai nationhood. Firstly, this thesis examines the emergence of the Thai nation at the end of the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, arguing that its emergence occurred at the moment when Thai national {u00E9}lites recognised the Malay-Muslims as being un-Thai and when they started attempting to transform them into Thais. Secondly, it examines the period of national "unification" and "harmonisation", which various Thai {u00E9}lites attempted to achieve from the end of the 1950s to the 1980s. In the 1950s and the 1960s, the ruling {u00E9}lites tried to eliminate all undesirable traces of un-Thainess in the population in the South. But in the 1980s, they tried to promote understanding of local cultures and traditions by state officials and to provide Muslims in the deep South with equal citizenship. Thirdly, it focuses on Thaksin Shinawatra's repressive policy toward the deep South. He trivialised the problems there at the heart of the unrest by saying that they were simply normal crimes, and refused to acknowledge the possibility of Malay-Muslim serious grievances which could be linked to their ethno-cultural and religious identity. As a result, Thaksin failed to recognise the reality of ethno-cultural difference in the Thai nation. Finally, this thesis shifts its focus from the views of national ruling {u00E9}lites to those held by public intellectuals, journalists and religious leaders at the local and the national levels. Some intellectuals and religious leaders have attempted to reformulate the idea of Thainess, which had been invented and developed by the central government, so it accords with liberal principles of freedom and equality. Their efforts were to transform the idea of Thai citizenship into a multicultural concept. Overall, this thesis argues that the Malay-Muslims who have, in the eyes of the Thai ruling {u00E9}lites, been un-Thai Others, have necessarily and intrinsically been parts of Thai national identity, and that national {u00E9}lites and intellectuals formulated their idea of Thai national identity through interacting with Malay-Muslims, and their cultures and traditions.