Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand Literary Criticism infrastructure

infrastructure

in the late 1990s many of the Palaung in Thailand found themselves involved in a new conflict over land use in northern Thailand's environmentally degraded highlands

pressed on through the current amidst the rising clamour of the rain and strom

Buddhism | Laos | spirit worship | Lao Buddhism | spirits of place | religious culture

National Central University

Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand Literary Criticism infrastructureUnlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as Thailand was called until 1939) shared a great deal in common with both colonized states and imperial powers: its sovereignty was qualified by imperial nations while domestically its leaders pursued European colonial strategies of juridical control in the Muslim south. The creation of family law and courts in that region and in Siam proper most