Culture And Electoral Politics In Southern Thailand Marc Askew by Marc Askew 9789744492463, 9744492465 instant download after payment.

The King Prajadhipok’s Institute (KPI) is pleased to present the book Culture and Electoral Politics in Southern Thailand: Election campaigning, group formation and the symbolic construction of political allegiances in Songkhla province to all of those who take an interest in Thai politics and democracy. This book is based on KPI’s two-year field research project of the same name, undertaken by Dr. Marc Askew.

Dr. Askew is an associate professor at the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on the ethnographic and historical study of social space and cultural practice in Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand. He has researched in Thailand for over a decade, undertaking a variety of social research projects both individually and in connection with Chulalongkorn University, the Thai Development Research Institute and the UNDP LIFE program. We are extremely confident that the results of his hard work on our project have produced several useful findings about Thai politics, especially Thai political culture.

In this study, Dr. Askew presents a cultural analysis of political contests in Thailand, explored through a detailed account of national and local-level electoral politics in the regional setting of Songkhla. In addition, he is concerned with investigating the ways that people express their understandings of political contestation and evaluate candidates according to key values. He also explores the modes by which key political actors, their supporters and audiences articulate what is at stake in the electoral arena. As KPI’s a secretary general, I would like to thank Dr. Askew, who made our research project success by providing us with invaluable reports and comments. Readers are most welcome to give us feedback in the form of comments, criticism and suggestions.