Marxism in Thai Historical Studies

Reynolds, Craig J.; Lysa, Hong

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“…He does his best to assess the extent of coercion and violence in the treatment of slaves, and he gives the reader his judgement on whether or not a distinctive socio-economic class of slaves existed in Thai society. He pays his respect to the British Marxist historian, Perry Anderson, and he is familiar with Jit Poumisak, one of the two most astute Marxist historians of Thailand, who wrote 'The Real Face of Thai Feudalism Today' (Reynolds & Hong 1983). At the time Turton was writing, Marxist vocabulary and frameworks of analysis were second nature to many academic authors, similar to the way the vocabulary and frameworks of analysis of Michel Foucault have inflected academic discourse today.…”

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Tracks and Traces: Thailand and the Work of Andrew Turton

Casas

2013

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

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A final aspect of tracing the legacy of critical scholarship is to examine how it set the intellectual and political agenda for subsequent debates, and to examine its heuristic significance for the present. The discussion in the chapters that follow on participation, on power, ideology and hegemony suggests a persistence and contemporary relevance of Turton's ideas, notwithstanding a continuing awkwardness in the present-day application of intellectual categories and seemingly naive political optimism that marked the earlier era. And yet, with the reference to Thaksin's Thailand in so many of these essays (Keyes, Cohen, Tapp, Glassman, Jamaree), with discussion of power in a country as divided nowalbeit along different linesas it was during the 1970s, and where scholarship and politics continue to shape each other, where historiographies collide and debates over allowable discourse rage as never before, the salience of Andrew Turton's work remains much more than merely apparent.

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Section: Turton's 'Thai Institutions Of Slavery'mentioning

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Tracks and Traces: Thailand and the Work of Andrew Turton

Casas

2013

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

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“…Indeed, it often seems that the value of Thai culture, itself, is being held up to scrutiny and evaluated in comparison to western traditions. And if one goes a step further and considers the radical newspapers which have circulated among Thai students overseasindividuals who should in the future form an important sector of the Thai elitethen it seems that the consensual nature of official Thai culture is in some danger (see Anderson 1978, Reynolds and Hong 1983, Turton 1984.…”

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‘False Consciousness’ and the Problem of Merit and Power in Thailand

Basham

2009

Mankind

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The idea that those with wealth and power in Thailand are believed by their compatriots to owe their position to accumulated merit (bun) recurs in the anthropological literature. This paper argues that these notions are not held in any literal sense, but are qualified by pragmatic and rational considerations, and are countered by common scepticism concerning the personas adopted by those of prominence.

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“…13. Thai Marxist interpretations have further emphasised the serfdom of the phrai class by such dynastic elites in the form of a feudal sakdina aristocracy with an Asiatic mode of production which prevented an indigenous capitalist middle-class emerging as a source of the Siamese nation-state, see Srisuwan (1950), Phumisak (1957), Samudavanija (1976), Nartsupha et al (1981), Praparpun (1976), Sakkriangkrai (1980); for an overview, see Reynolds and Hong (1983); Winichakul 1995).…”

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Accounting for the nation‐state in mid nineteenth‐century Thailand

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Kuasirikun

2007

Accounting, Auditing &Amp; Accountability Journal

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between accounting and the early roots of the nation-state in mid nineteenth-century Siam/Thailand. Design/methodology/approach -First, the paper examines the theoretical inter-relationship between accounting and nationalism. Second, it relates this theoretical understanding to a study of the changing concepts, methods and structures of indigenous Siamese accounting at a time of transition when foreign mercantile influence was beginning to have an impact on the mid nineteenthcentury Siamese economy. Third, the paper analyses how these accounting structures and practices came to constitute a socio-political instrument, which contributed to the administrative development of a Siamese dynastic state by the mid nineteenth-century. Finally, the paper studies the ways in which this dynastic state began to promote national characteristics through the use of its accounts to create a sense of Siamese cultural identity. Findings -The findings emphasise the important role of accounting in the construction of political and national identity. Originality/value -This inter-disciplinary paper highlights a general neglect in the accounting literature of the instrumental role of accounting in nation-state formation as well as offering a re-interpretation of Thai historiography from an accounting viewpoint. Moreover as an example of alternative accounting practice, this paper provides an analysis of indigenous accounting methods and structures in mid nineteenth-century Siam/Thailand at the point when they were becoming increasingly influenced by foreign mercantilism.

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Marxism in Thai Historical Studies

Cited by 32 publications

References 11 publications

Tracks and Traces: Thailand and the Work of Andrew Turton

Tracks and Traces: Thailand and the Work of Andrew Turton

‘False Consciousness’ and the Problem of Merit and Power in Thailand

Accounting for the nation‐state in mid nineteenth‐century Thailand

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