Post-Development

Klapeer, Christine M.

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“…Amidst fierce claims for preservation of the commons, social equality and global justice, catchwords such as community, localism and culture are often used by proponents of anti-globalisation to identify reactionary, discriminating right-wing ideologies (cf. Klapeer, 2016;Ziai, 2015). In Thailand, the Sufficiency Economy (SE) development programme combines a rejection of Western modernity by promoting a Buddhist perspective on economics with perverted claims of rural social movements in the region.…”

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Strategic Alliances or What Alternative? TheBia Kud Chumand Community Culture in Thailand

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2018

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The article gives a basic insight into the different currents that are part of an alternative development paradigm in Thailand. While a global trend of alternatives as reflected in the post-development critique gained momentum in the 1990s, its agents in Thailand have a much longer history. Taking up the critique of post-development approaches as remaining at a discursive level, rather than actually effecting progressive material social change, this article traces the strategic alliances, junctures and disjunctures among alternative development proponents in the north-eastern province of Yasothon. Only a couple of months after the historic financial crisis hit Thailand, and just after the 'Sufficiency Economy Philosophy' -an alternative development paradigm framed by the King -was roughly outlined in December 1997, a small rural community of five villages in the north-eastern district of Kud Chum, with a history of political dissent, started to implement a community currency network. This article suggests that the reactions and dynamics, which the implementation triggered, as well as preceding and subsequent processes of co-optation and collaboration, are very telling in terms of the overall workings of Sufficiency Economy as a political programme. The events tell a story of top-down co-optation, bottom-up strategic alliances, as well as a plethora of other interests and aims on the ground.

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confidence: 99%

Strategic Alliances or What Alternative? TheBia Kud Chumand Community Culture in Thailand

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2018

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Post-Development

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Strategic Alliances or What Alternative? TheBia Kud Chumand Community Culture in Thailand

Strategic Alliances or What Alternative? TheBia Kud Chumand Community Culture in Thailand

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