Please see the new working paper on "Ambivlalent about rights" regarding Thailand at the Southeast Asian Research Centre's working paper series
http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/searc/doc.aspx
The paper explores the conditions that give rise to human rights abuses in Thailand.
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“I hate it when they say “grassroots, it has to come from the grass roots”, it makes me feel like I am being trampled on.” A Thai Villager......................... A blog that is partly an exploration of democrasubjection - the subjection of people to democratic forms of rule.
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September 2010 Interview with Newsline Go to story "Thai Tension"
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Pressure on Thai PM - from Australia Network's Asia Pacific Focus
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September 2008 Interview with Newsline Go to story "Thai Protestors Dig In"
2006 ABC Striking a Patriotic Chord. The Politics of Anthems
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September 2010 Interview with Newsline Go to story "Thai Tension"
May 2010 Interview with Newsline Go to story "Bangkok Compensation
Pressure on Thai PM - from Australia Network's Asia Pacific Focus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3boqN2bOPU
September 2008 Interview with Newsline Go to story "Thai Protestors Dig In"
2006 ABC Striking a Patriotic Chord. The Politics of Anthems
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Human Rights in Thailand
Italian translation of Ambivalent ABout Rights: Accidental Killings Machines, Democracy and Coups D'etat
An Introduction to Thai Politics
Thinking about Thaksin's social base
"Country Needs Change, so Thaksin wants to Make History" Bangkok Post
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Thai NGO Movement
Another Country: The Malay Muslim South
Featured publications
ON THE POLITICS OF THE 1997 CONSTITUTION "Framing the People's Constitution" in McCargo, D Reforming Thai Politics, Copenhangen, NIAS Press, 2002.
A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING THE STALEMATE IN THAI POLITICS:
Connors MK. (2009) 'Liberalism, Authoritarianism and the Politics of Decisionism in Thailand" Pacific Review, 22, 3, pp. 355-373.
ON A BROADBRUSH ACCOUNT OF THE THAI CRISIS: Connors, MK. (2008) 'Four elections and a coup' Australian Journal of International Affairs, 62:4, pp. 478-496.
ON THE POLITICS OF PAD (2006) and liberal understandings of the monarchy click below:Connors, MK. (2008) 'Article of Faith: the Failure of Royal Liberalism in Thailand', Journal of Contemporary Asia, 38, 1, pp.143-165
A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING THE STALEMATE IN THAI POLITICS:
Connors MK. (2009) 'Liberalism, Authoritarianism and the Politics of Decisionism in Thailand" Pacific Review, 22, 3, pp. 355-373.
ON A BROADBRUSH ACCOUNT OF THE THAI CRISIS: Connors, MK. (2008) 'Four elections and a coup' Australian Journal of International Affairs, 62:4, pp. 478-496.
ON THE POLITICS OF PAD (2006) and liberal understandings of the monarchy click below:Connors, MK. (2008) 'Article of Faith: the Failure of Royal Liberalism in Thailand', Journal of Contemporary Asia, 38, 1, pp.143-165
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- I teach politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne. For the moment this blog is fairly inactive, but I will keep existing posts available. Views expressed here are my own. The site aims to avoid blogatry - indigent analysis based on casual bile. Sometimes, it fails.
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Papers on Thai politics
Connors MK. (2009) 'Liberalism, Authoritarianism and the Politics of Decisionism in Thailand" Pacific Review, 22, 3, pp. 355-373.
Connors, MK. (2008) 'Article of Faith: the Failure of Royal Liberalism in Thailand', Journal of Contemporary Asia, 38, 1, pp.143-165.
Connors, MK. (2006) "Thailand and the United States of America: Beyond Hegemony?" paper presented to a symposium on ‘Bush and Asia: America’s Evolving Relations in East Asia’, held at the University of Queensland, Friday, November 26, 2004.
Connors MK. (2006) 'War on Error and the Southern Fire: How Terrorism Experts Get it Wrong', Critical Asian Studies, 38, 151-175.
Connors, MK. (2005) 'Ministering Culture', Critical Asian
Studies, 37, 4, pp.523-551.
Connors, MK. (2005) 'Thailand: The Facts and F(r)ictions of Ruling', Southeast Asian Affairs, pp.365-284.
Connors, M. (2003) 'The Reforming State: Security, Development and Culture in Democratic Times', Working Paper Number 42, Southeast Asian Research Centre, City University, Hong Kong, September.
Connors, M. (2001) 'Ideological Aspects of Democratization: the Mainstreaming of Localism', Working Paper Number 12, Southeast Asian Research Centre, City University, Hong Kong, October.
Connors, MK. (1999) 'Political Reform and the State in Thailand', Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.29, No.2, pp.202-226.
Book Chapters
Connors M.K. (2009) "Another Country: Reflections on the Politics of Culture" in Funston J. (ed.) Divided Over Thaksin: Thailand's Coup and Problematic Transition, Singapore: ISEAS.
Connors, MK. (2008) 'Article of Faith: the Failure of Royal Liberalism in Thailand', Journal of Contemporary Asia, 38, 1, pp.143-165.
Connors, MK. (2006) "Thailand and the United States of America: Beyond Hegemony?" paper presented to a symposium on ‘Bush and Asia: America’s Evolving Relations in East Asia’, held at the University of Queensland, Friday, November 26, 2004.
Connors MK. (2006) 'War on Error and the Southern Fire: How Terrorism Experts Get it Wrong', Critical Asian Studies, 38, 151-175.
Connors, MK. (2005) 'Ministering Culture', Critical Asian
Studies, 37, 4, pp.523-551.
Connors, MK. (2005) 'Thailand: The Facts and F(r)ictions of Ruling', Southeast Asian Affairs, pp.365-284.
Connors, M. (2003) 'The Reforming State: Security, Development and Culture in Democratic Times', Working Paper Number 42, Southeast Asian Research Centre, City University, Hong Kong, September.
Connors, M. (2001) 'Ideological Aspects of Democratization: the Mainstreaming of Localism', Working Paper Number 12, Southeast Asian Research Centre, City University, Hong Kong, October.
Connors, MK. (1999) 'Political Reform and the State in Thailand', Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.29, No.2, pp.202-226.
Book Chapters
Connors M.K. (2009) "Another Country: Reflections on the Politics of Culture" in Funston J. (ed.) Divided Over Thaksin: Thailand's Coup and Problematic Transition, Singapore: ISEAS.
Connors, MK. (2006) 'Thailand and the United States: beyond hegemony?', in Mark Beeson (ed.) Bush and Asia: The US's Evolving Relationships with East Asia, London: Routledge, pp.128-144.
Connors, MK. (2006) 'Thaksin’s Thailand - to have and to hold', in Cavan Hogue (ed.) Thailand's Economic Recovery. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore and the National Thai Studies Centre, ANU, Canberra, pp.26-45.
Connors, MK. (2006) 'Democracy and the Mainstreaming of Localism in Thailand', in Joakim Öjendal and Francis Loh (eds) Southeast Asian Responses to Globalization:NIAS Press, Copenhagen
Connors, MK. (2002) 'Framing the People’s Constitution', in Duncan McCargo (ed.) Reforming Thai Politics, NIAS Press, pp.37-56.
Connors, M. (2001) 'Thailand', in Patrick Heenan and Monique Lamontagne (eds) The Southeast Asia Handbook, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London and Chicago, pp.41-55.
Connors (2000) 'When the Dogs Howl: Democratization in Thailand', in P. Darby (ed.) At the Edge of International Relations: Postcolonialism, Gender and Dependency, Continuum, London and New York (orig, 1997), pp.125-147.
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Papers on other topics
Connors, M. (1995) 'Missing Gender and the Fetishism of Sex: Gay Responses to the Sexuality Debates', Thamyris - An International Feminist Journal of Inquiry, Vol.2, No.2, Autumn, Amsterdam, pp.207-230.
Connors, M. (1997) 'Prefacing Research on the Global Gay', Melbourne Journal of Politics, Vol.24, pp.44-48.
Connors, M. (1996) 'The Eclipse of Consociationalism in South Africa's Democratic Transition', Democratization, Vol.3, No.4, London, pp.420-435.
Connors, M. (1996) 'No Getting Past the Post: International Relations and Heterotopia', Melbourne Journal of Politics, Vol.23, pp.44-71.
Connors, M. (1997) 'Prefacing Research on the Global Gay', Melbourne Journal of Politics, Vol.24, pp.44-48.
Connors, M. (1996) 'The Eclipse of Consociationalism in South Africa's Democratic Transition', Democratization, Vol.3, No.4, London, pp.420-435.
Connors, M. (1996) 'No Getting Past the Post: International Relations and Heterotopia', Melbourne Journal of Politics, Vol.23, pp.44-71.
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