The Intimate Life of Dissent Ánthropological Perspectives

Amarasuriya, Harini; Kelly, Tobias; Maunaguru, Sidharthan; Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Galina; Spencer, Jonathan

doi:10.14324/111.9781787357778

2020

DOI: 10.14324/111.9781787357778

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The Intimate Life of Dissent Ánthropological Perspectives

Harini Amarasuriya

Tobias Kelly

Sidharthan Maunaguru

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Abstract: Northeastern University. Her past research on student movements in Indonesia has largely focused on the relationship between radical youth politics and historical consciousness. Her current work investigates the production of debt and precarity in urban Indonesia.

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Siblings, comrades, friends: Kin(g)ship, hierarchy, and equality in Thailand’s youth struggle for democracy

Bolotta

2024

Mod. Asian Stud.

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This article provides an innovative anthropological analysis of youth activism in contemporary Thailand by examining its past and current manifestations through an unusual theoretical nexus—that between (cosmological) politics and kinship tropes. Against the backdrop of the Buddhist kingdom’s long-standing cult of the ‘Father-King’, the article focuses on the 2020 Thai democracy movement in relation to student demonstrations in the 1970s. It aims to explore the ambiguous permutations in the meanings of kinship that have marked Thai young people’s democratic engagement in a range of social fields—including friendship, siblinghood, and comradeship. Drawing upon archival material, oral histories of student revolts, and extended ethnography with today’s youth activists in a number of political sites—anti-government rallies, universities, and private homes—the article reveals how kin relationships, hierarchies, and affects are entangled in diverse political formations of youth dissent. Through a detailed reading of these complex entanglements, it shows how relationships of ‘equal friendship’ and ‘hierarchical siblinghood’ substantiate the symbolic grounds of Thai youth activism, as conflicting instantiations of ‘filial insubordination’ to monarchical parenthood. While youth activists advocate for an egalitarian, ‘friendship-based’ polity, explicitly questioning the democratic viability of Thailand’s Buddhist kin(g)ship, they are simultaneously caught up in (seemingly inescapable) hierarchical sibling relationships that validate the latter’s ontological legitimacy in practice, generating subtle tensions. It is argued that attention given to the varied cultural shapes of these tensions can make it possible to unearth the deep, kinship-based core of Thai social conflict that is concealed beneath public forms and straightforward political stances.

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Siblings, comrades, friends: Kin(g)ship, hierarchy, and equality in Thailand’s youth struggle for democracy

Bolotta

2024

Mod. Asian Stud.

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The intimate politics of insurgency

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Understanding Non-Participation in Armed Groups during the Sri Lankan Civil War

Meier

2023

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This article addresses the question of why individuals do not join armed groups during civil wars. Based on conflict history interviews with non-combatants and former members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), it singles out the most relevant mechanisms that inform respondents’ non-participation choices: lack of opportunity, embeddedness in disapproving networks, resource activation, resilience, and determination. These mechanisms operate at different levels of analysis and therefore highlight the fundamental importance and interplay of (changing) political contexts, (adjusting) quotidian systems of social ties and individual dispositions in shaping non-participation dynamics and in generating spatio-temporal variation in non-involvement patterns. By analyzing non-participation in armed groups, the article contributes to the growing scholarly interest in the multiple choices and roles individuals take and adopt (beyond engaging in militancy) and elucidates the complex relationship between endogenous conflict dynamics and pre-war structures and dispositions underlying micro-mobilization processes.

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The Intimate Life of Dissent Ánthropological Perspectives

Abstract: Northeastern University. Her past research on student movements in Indonesia has largely focused on the relationship between radical youth politics and historical consciousness. Her current work investigates the production of debt and precarity in urban Indonesia.

Cited by 4 publications

References 56 publications

Siblings, comrades, friends: Kin(g)ship, hierarchy, and equality in Thailand’s youth struggle for democracy

Siblings, comrades, friends: Kin(g)ship, hierarchy, and equality in Thailand’s youth struggle for democracy

The intimate politics of insurgency

Understanding Non-Participation in Armed Groups during the Sri Lankan Civil War

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