Mien through sports and culture: Mobilizing minority identity in Thailand

The glocalization of time and space: Soccer and meaning in Chota valley, Ecuador

“…Hence, within the urban settings of developed countries, studying the globalization of culture is messy as one cannot easily determine what occurs as a result of specific global processes and what corresponds to historical trends or cultural similarities. The few works that do look at settings with weaker connections to the global core have shown that local actors have much more cultural agency than the overall literature suggests (Fair, 2004;Jonsson, 2003;Oduro-Frimpong, 2009). Following their example, I examine a rural setting in a developing country, paying attention to local agency.…”

Eternal friends and erstwhile enemies: The regional sporting community of the Southeast Asian Games

“…Brown 2008; Creak 2010). Over these decades, sports and sporting events became a major means of promoting imperial and national identification, as well as non-hegemonic identities such as those of ethnic minorities (Jonsson 2003; Emmanuel 2011). In addition to European sports, traditional physical practices were codified according to similar principles, creating the regional game of sepak takraw (kick-volleyball) and various ‘national sports’ such as muay thai (Thai boxing) and chinlone , a Burmese variety of sepak takraw (Aung-Thwin 2012; Pattana 2005).…”

Mien Sports and Heritage, Thailand 2001 by Hjorleifur Jonsson Mien Relations: Mountain People and State Control in Thailand by Hjorleifur Jonsson

“…Students should be advised to hold off viewing the video until after they have read either chapter 4 in Mien Relations or a variant presentation of the same material in Jonsson's 2003 Ethnos article. The viewer needs to be armed with context information before attacking the video, which is stingy with the same.…”