Imagining Siam
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Imagining Siam
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Author : Caron Eastgate Dann
language : en
Publisher: Monash Asia Institute
Release Date : 2008
Imagining Siam written by Caron Eastgate Dann and has been published by Monash Asia Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Thailand has been systematically transformed into a classic neocolonial object of Western desire - an easily penetrated erotic zone that caters to the appetites of Western interlopers. In the first comprehensive critical study of Western literature about Thailand, Imagining Siam provides a thorough analysis - using Edward Said's concepts - of English language travelogues and travel literature. It offers a broad view, covering literary attempts to describe Siam in the 13th century, through the formative phase of Western engagement in the 16th century and the various competing European imperialisms in the 19th century, to today's era of mass tourism and the global reach of economically and culturally powerful 'First World' populations. Imagining Siam will appeal to those interested in Thailand, critiques of travel writing, and the Anna Leonowens' legacy (Anna of Anna and the King of Siam).
Historical Dictionary Of Thailand
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Author : Gerald W. Fry
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2024-11-19
Historical Dictionary Of Thailand written by Gerald W. Fry and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-19 with History categories.
Throughout its history Siam and then later Thailand has shown remarkable resiliency, adaptability, and creativity in responding to serious threats and crises. This augurs well for Thailand’s capacity to deal with the serious problems described above and to flourish in the areas in which it has great potential and comparative advantage, such as food exports (“kitchen of the world”); diverse genres of tourism; health and wellness management; creative design; alternative energy sources (great potential of solar energy and e-vehicles); regional transportation hub (both rail and air); export growth and diversification; an attractive site for MICE; and as an international education hub. Thailand clearly has the potential to become one of the most distinct, vibrant, creative, and diverse societies of the dynamic Asia-Pacific region. Historical Dictionary of Thailand, Fourth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Thailand.
Greater India And The Indian Expansionist Imagination C 1885 1965
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Author : Jolita Zabarskaitė
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-11-07
Greater India And The Indian Expansionist Imagination C 1885 1965 written by Jolita Zabarskaitė and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-07 with Social Science categories.
This book is the first systematic study of the genealogy, discursive structures, and political implications of the concept of ‘Greater India’, implying a Hindu colonization of Southeast Asia, and used by extension to argue for a past Indian greatness as a colonial power, reproducible in the present and future. From the 1880s to the 1960s, protagonists of the Greater India theme attempted to make a case for the importance of an expansionist Indian civilisation in civilizing Southeast Asia. The argument was extended to include Central Asia, Africa, North and South America, and other regions where Indian migrants were to be found. The advocates of this Indocentric and Hindu revivalist approach, with Hindu and Indian often taken to be synonymous, were involved in a quintessentially parochial project, despite its apparently international dimensions: to justify an Indian expansionist imagination that viewed India’s past as a colonizer and civilizer of other lands as a model for the restoration of that past greatness in the future. Zabarskaite shows that the crucial ideologues and elements used for the formation of the construct of Greater India can be traced to the svadeśī movement of the turn of the century, and that Greater India moved easily between the domains of the scholarly and the popular as it sought to establish itself as a form of nationalist self-assertion.
Through Your Eyes Religious Alterity And The Early Modern Western Imagination
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-09-20
Through Your Eyes Religious Alterity And The Early Modern Western Imagination written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-20 with Religion categories.
The focus of Through Your Eyes: Religious Alterity and the Early Modern Western Imagination is the (mostly Western) understanding, representation and self-critical appropriation of the "religious other" between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Mutually constitutive processes of selfing/othering are observed through the lenses of creedal Jews, a bhakti Brahmin, a widely translated Morisco historian, a collector of Western and Eastern singularia, Christian missionaries in Asia, critical converts, toleration theorists, and freethinkers: in other words, people dwelling in an 'in-between' space which undermines any binary conception of the Self and the Other. The genesis of the volume was in exchanges between eight international scholars and the two editors, intellectual historian Giovanni Tarantino and anthropologist Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, who share an interest in comparatism, debates over toleration, and history of emotions. Contributors are: Daniel Barbu, Vincent Carretta, Ananya Chakravarti, Talya Fishman, Rolando Minuti, Fernando Rodríguez Mediano, Paul Rule, Knut Martin Stünkel, Giovanni Tarantino, and Paola von Wyss-Giacosa.
Imagining Communities In Thailand
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Author : Shigeharu Tanabe
language : en
Publisher: Silkworm Books
Release Date : 2008
Imagining Communities In Thailand written by Shigeharu Tanabe and has been published by Silkworm Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
This book explores newly emerging communities and the new practices, knowledge, and power relations that can no longer be explained adequately by the conventional conception of community. In the early 1980s, Benedict Anderson coined the term "imagined communities" to examine the creation and global spread of the nation-state as a collective fiction constructed in the homogeneous and empty time of modernity. Set against this conceptual background, the present volume focuses on the processes of "imaging communities" to explore how people imagine and create their own sense of knowledge, power, and identity. The essays in this volume consider the communal relations and properties of newly emerging or transforming communities, associations, and networks: the "imagined family" in shaping the modern Thai nation-state, the Asoke community of a new Buddhist movement, a Karen millenarian Buddhist community on the Thai-Myanmar border, networks of producers and sellers in the Night Bazaar of Chiang Mai, female factory workers in Lamphun, and HIV/AIDS self-help groups of northern Thailand. Taken together, these case studies demonstrate the possibilities of new communities in Thailand and provide a key reference for both students and scholars concerned with a critical approach to sociology, history, development studies, Southeast Asian studies, and anthropology.
The Kingdom Of Siam
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Author : Simon de La Loubère
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Kingdom Of Siam written by Simon de La Loubère and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Thailand categories.
Imagining Singapore
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Author : Kah Choon Ban
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Academic
Release Date : 2004
Imagining Singapore written by Kah Choon Ban and has been published by Marshall Cavendish Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
This book explores the unique Singapore experience: its internal landscape, how the landscape came about, was conceived of and conceptualised, and how the imagination played and continues to play an important role in such conceptions. the collected essays, cover a wide range of topics relating to Singapore society. These include historiography, resource and recreational planning, bilingualism and population management, religion and politics, and gender. A common thread tying together these essays is the mental construction of reality from which thinking proceeds. This new edition features two new essays ("Imagining Freedom" and "Imagining the Singapore Economy in the Next Lap"), revisions and updates to the original essays, and a new preface by the editors.
Imagination In Dreams And Their Study
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Author : Frederick Greenwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Imagination In Dreams And Their Study written by Frederick Greenwood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Dreams categories.
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Author : 季嘯風
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
written by 季嘯風 and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with China categories.
Environment And Planning
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Environment And Planning written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Electronic journals categories.
International interdisciplinary journal discussing the relations between Society and Space. Space is broadly conceived: from landscapes of the body to global geographies; from cyberspace to old growth forests; as metaphorical and material; as theoretical construct and empirical fact. Covers both practical politics and the abstractions of social theory.