{"product_id":"uneasy-military-encounters-the-imperial-politics-of-counterinsurgency-in-southern-thailand-hardback-9781501751325","title":"Uneasy Military Encounters; The Imperial Politics of Counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand (Hardback) 9781501751325","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUneasy Military Encounters\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Imperial Politics of Counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRuth Streicher (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501751325\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 October 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e186 pages, 9 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 9 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 1.9 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eStreicher's [\u003ci\u003eUneasy Military Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e] provides a significant contribution to our knowledge of the military's counterinsurgency operations in southern Thailand.\u003c\/p\u003e (Journal of Contemporary Asia)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUneasy Military Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e presents a historically and theoretically grounded political ethnography of the Thai military's counterinsurgency practices in the southern borderland, home to the greater part of the Malay-Muslim minority.\u003c\/b\u003e Ruth Streicher argues that counterinsurgency practices mark the southern population as the racialized, religious, and gendered other of the Thai, which contributes to producing Thailand as an imperial formation: a state formation based on essentialized difference between the Thai and their others. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough a genealogical approach, \u003ci\u003eUneasy Military Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e addresses broad conceptual questions of imperial politics in a non-Western context: How can we understand imperial policing in a country that was never colonized? How is \"Islam\" constructed in a state that is officially secular and promotes Buddhist tolerance? What are the (historical) dynamics of imperial patriarchy in a context internationally known for its gender pluralism? The resulting ethnography excavates the imperial politics of concrete encounters between the military and the southern population in the ongoing conflict in southern Thailand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Policing the Imperial Formation\u003cbr\u003e 1. Policing History: A Military Handbook on the Southern Provinces\u003cbr\u003e 2. Checkpoints: Racialized Practices of Suspicion\u003cbr\u003e 3. The New Path to Peace: Disciplining Religious Subjects\u003cbr\u003e 4. Guarding the Daughter: Patriarchal Compromise and Military Sisterhood\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Happiness and Military Rule\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Southeast Asia Program Publications","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607799787800,"sku":"9781501751325","price":85.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/uneasy-military-encounters-the-imperial-politics-of-counterinsurgency-in-southern-thailand-hardback-9781501751325","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}