Through analyzing conflict narratives regarding Khao Phra Wihan, a territorial conflict important for nationalists in Thailand, this article aims to detangle how nationalization is experienced and performed on an individual level. In this article, the concept “affective self‐nationalization” is proposed to analyze the emotional and embodied practices through which individuals fashion themselves into nationalized subjects. In Thailand, self‐nationalization is instigated by the governing agency through repeated, regular, mandatory, public performances of loyalty through which individuals create the nation collectively. These performances create automatic feelings to the nation, establishes national others as fearsome, and rule through the basic human need of belonging. At the same time, individuals’ emotions shape the society through how they decide to perform nationalization. The concept of “affective self‐nationalization” captures the connections between the official nationalizing program of “outside” society in a form of nationalist emotional socialization with individual experience of nationalizing.
Royalist-Nationalist-Imaginary-through-Infrapolitical-Everyday-Resistance-Online Article 4: 'Everyday Nationalizing in the Asoke Movement. Constructing Nationalism around Territorial Loss, Corruption, Western Influence, and Everyday Routine in Thailand', under review at Nations and Nationalism v unlimited kindness, for every meal, for everything you are doing for our family. Dad, pappa, isi for supporting this project even though doubting the necessity of any parts of it. Thank you for building our home and for fixing everything broken. Dad and Ting for your patience with active kids in small cars on long travels to dear Isaan and everything around that. Thank you mother, mamma, äiti for taking care of our kids when Alexander and I visited conferences in London, Baltimore, Budapest, Washington, Edinburgh. For the writing retreat in Gotland. For always believing in me. Thank you dearest sisters Elina and Eve, for being my rocks and laughter. Thank you Rania, Rio and Ruben for all arriving earth side during this thesis writing. I am so proud of you. Thank you for coming to us. Alexander. For carrying our kids to the top of dusty mountains in tropical heat to look at ruins. For putting up with all the shit. I am sorry. For all the love. Thank you. You made this dissertation possible.
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