Uneasy Military Encounters : : The Imperial Politics of Counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand / / Ruth Streicher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Streicher, Ruth,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (186 p.) :; 9 b&w halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; List of Abbreviations --; Note on Transliteration and Referencing --; Introduction: Policing the Imperial Formation --; Chapter 1 Policing History: A Military Handbook on the Southern Provinces --; Chapter 2 Checkpoints: Racialized Practices of Suspicion --; Chapter 3 The New Path to Peace: Disciplining Religious Subjects --; Chapter 4 Guarding the Daughter: Patriarchal Compromise and Military Sisterhood --; Conclusion: Happiness and Military Rule --; Glossary --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501751356; 9783110690460; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704594; 9783110704723
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501751356?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ruth Streicher.

Uneasy Military Encounters 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." 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."Through a genealogical approach, Uneasy Military Encounters 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.