Gestern Abend hatte ich nach meinem freien Tag noch soviel Energie, das ich gleich zwei Bücher ausgelesen habe. Zuerst mein normales Buch, das Buch über Nica Rothschild, ihr Leben und über Theonius Monk. Demnächst möchte ich mir eine passende CD dazu kaufen.
Dann habe ich noch ein "Langzeitprojekt" ausgelesen: in diesem Buch habe ich nur dann gelesen, wenn ich eben Abends ein anderes Buch ausgelesen habe und nichts Neues beginnen wollte.
Ausgelesen habe ich auch:
Peter BOXALL (Hrsg.)
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Deshalb geht es heute von Jazz und Büchern zur Politik in Thailand. Mal sehen, wie es mir gefallen wird.
Meine Lektüre:
Andrew WALKER
Thailand`s Political Peasants
Thailand`s Political Peasants
Power in the modern rural Economy
When a populist movement elected Thaksin Shinawatra as prime minister of Thailand in 2001, many of the country’s urban elite dismissed the outcome as just another symptom of rural corruption, a traditional patronage system dominated by local strongmen pressuring their neighbors through political bullying and vote-buying. In Thailand’s Political Peasants, however, Andrew Walker argues that the emergence of an entirely new socioeconomic dynamic has dramatically changed the relations of Thai peasants with the state, making them a political force to be reckoned with. Whereas their ancestors focused on subsistence, this generation of middle-income peasants seeks productive relationships with sources of state power, produces cash crops, and derives additional income through non-agricultural work. In the increasingly decentralized, disaggregated country, rural villagers and farmers have themselves become entrepreneurs and agents of the state at the local level, while the state has changed from an extractor of taxes to a supplier of subsidies and a patron of development projects.
Thailand’s Political Peasants provides an original, provocative analysis that encourages an ethnographic rethinking of rural politics in rapidly developing countries. Drawing on six years of fieldwork in Ban Tiam, a rural village in northern Thailand, Walker shows how analyses of peasant politics that focus primarily on rebellion, resistance, and evasion are becoming less useful for understanding emergent forms of political society.
Thailand’s Political Peasants provides an original, provocative analysis that encourages an ethnographic rethinking of rural politics in rapidly developing countries. Drawing on six years of fieldwork in Ban Tiam, a rural village in northern Thailand, Walker shows how analyses of peasant politics that focus primarily on rebellion, resistance, and evasion are becoming less useful for understanding emergent forms of political society.
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