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Selby, Don.

The emergence of human rights in Thai politics.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The emergence of human rights in Thai politics.
Author:	Selby, Don.
Description:	242 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-05, Section: A, page: 1695.
Notes:	Adviser: Veena Das.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-05A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3407752
ISBN:	9781109779103

The emergence of human rights in Thai politics.
Selby, Don.

The emergence of human rights in Thai politics. - 242 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-05, Section: A, page: 1695.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 2010.

This dissertation charts how, in the early 2000s, the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand and human rights NGOs sought to articulate human rights with and through Buddhist morality and Thailand's history of democratic struggle, as they worked to settle on the meanings and practices human rights would bear in Thailand. The dissertation shows how the struggle to define and make use of human rights within the specific political, religious, moral and social ethos of contemporary Thai society not only definitively (if impermanently), shaped human rights, but also provided opportunities to pursue or revive political agendas and religious arguments in new and unexpected ways. The experimentation with human rights by NHRC and NGO members lent globalized human rights discourses a Thai character though interventions in local debates on Buddhism and politics, and on democratic struggles and justice. As human rights circulated in practice, however, they also drew social and political force from a range of other sources deeply embedded in Thai forms of sociality. By evoking social conventions around face-saving, rank, status and patron-client relations, human rights lawyers simultaneously provided human rights with leverage familiar to Thai authorities, and refashioned these conventions to redirect their flow of power from powerful figures to highly vulnerable groups within Thailand, like those trafficked into labor.

ISBN: 9781109779103Subjects--Topical Terms:

212460
Anthropology, Cultural.

The emergence of human rights in Thai politics.
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