Peasants and the redshirt movement in Thailand: some dissenting voices

Nishizaki, Yoshinori

doi:10.1080/03066150.2013.873409

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“…It is important not to forget that, historically, rural social classes and groups have a checkered record in terms of supporting right wing, even fascist political projects. The contemporary rural support for Trump in the United States (Ulrich-Schad & Duncan, 2018), Putin in Russia (Mamonova, 2016(Mamonova, , 2018(Mamonova, , forthcoming 2019, Le Pen in France, Erdogan in Turkey (Adaman, Arsel & Akbulut, forthcoming 2019;Gurel et al, forthcoming 2019), Modi in India, the Red Shirt movement in Thailand supporting Thaksin (Nishizaki, 2014), and the Greenshirts of 1920s and 1930s French led by Henry Dorgeres (Paxton, 1997) all remind us of past and present rural support to right-wing political ideas and initiatives. Bello (2018) offers a critical reflection on the relationship between the rise of fascism, the peasantry, and the middle class in Chile, Indonesia, Italy, the Philippines, and Thailand, seen from the contemporary context.…”

Section: The Fundamental Differences Between Right-wing Populism Anmentioning

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Agrarian social movements: The absurdly difficult but not impossible agenda of defeating right‐wing populism and exploring a socialist future

Borras

2019

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Parallels, resemblances, and interconnections between contemporary right‐wing populism and the populism of agrarian movements are examined in this essay. The two are partly linked through their social base in the countryside. This paper explores an agenda for political conversation and research on possible contributions to the twin efforts of splitting the ranks of right‐wing populists while expanding the united front of democratic challengers. The challenge is how to transform the identified interconnections into a left‐wing political project that can erode right‐wing populism. This requires a reclaiming of populism. In exploring this agenda, the paper revisits the ideas and practices of right‐wing populism and agrarian populism and the awkward overlaps and fundamental differences between them. It concludes with a discussion on the challenge of forging a reformulated class‐conscious left‐wing populism as a countercurrent to right‐wing populism, and as a possible political force against capitalism and towards a socialist future.

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Section: The Fundamental Differences Between Right-wing Populism Anmentioning

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Agrarian social movements: The absurdly difficult but not impossible agenda of defeating right‐wing populism and exploring a socialist future

Borras

2019

Journal of Agrarian Change

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136

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“…Weak democratic institutions and decades of military and quasi-military control have all contributed to Thailand's current state of democracy, which is marked by low human rights and limited press freedom. Deep division in the Thai society represented by different colored political groups has remained under the shallow cover put the current military-backed regime may explode any time ( Nishizaki, 2014 ; The Economist, 2019 ).…”

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Pandemic in the land of the smile: the case of COVID-19 outbreak in Thailand in 2020

Ahmad

Saqib²

2022

Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience

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“…These Shirts (Nishizaki, 2014), many did, and thousands traveled to Bangkok to join in the protests.…”

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“…This class identity has become an important part of political mobilization, although Nishizaki (2014) argues not all farmers ascribe to this class consciousness. Keyes (2014) demonstrates that through Thaksin Shinawatra's premiership (2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006), rural Thais felt their voices, which had long been excluded from political discourse, were finally being heard, leaving a lasting impact on their identification with Thaksin's TRT party.…”

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Becoming citizens: Policy feedback and the transformation of the Thai rice farmer

Ricks

Laiprakobsup

2021

Journal of Rural Studies

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Over the past twenty years, Thailand's rice farmers have become one of the country's most important and active political constituencies, a sharp contrast from the previous decades wherein they were treated with neglect or even derision by the Thai political elite. These "political peasants" now actively advocate for and successfully receive extensive subsidies from both authoritarian and democratic governments. What has driven this change? In this essay, we draw on theories of the policy feedback loop wherein policies yield both material and cognitive benefits, which change the political behavior of populations. We argue that the Thaksin Shinawatra government's (2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006) paddy pledging policy altered the mindset of Thai rice farmers, creating a new form of social contract between the rural poor and the state. We demonstrate this by tracing the process through which farmers' political behavior changed, drawing on a variety of evidence, including electoral data, secondary sources, an original survey, focus groups, and interviews with Thai farmers. The paper provides additional understanding regarding the mechanisms through which Thai politics has changed since 2001. On a broader scale, these findings suggest the potential of public policy to create enduring political communities among rural populations.

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Peasants and the redshirt movement in Thailand: some dissenting voices

Cited by 12 publications

References 14 publications

Agrarian social movements: The absurdly difficult but not impossible agenda of defeating right‐wing populism and exploring a socialist future

Agrarian social movements: The absurdly difficult but not impossible agenda of defeating right‐wing populism and exploring a socialist future

Pandemic in the land of the smile: the case of COVID-19 outbreak in Thailand in 2020

Becoming citizens: Policy feedback and the transformation of the Thai rice farmer

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