Understanding Isan Political Villagers: Motivations, group identity, electoral linkage, and livelihoods


Date: 17 November 2018, 14:00-17:30
Venue: Middle-sized meeting room, 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Building, Kyoto University

Program:
14:00-14:10
Introduction

14:10-14:40
Prasongchai Setthasuravich (The University of Tokyo/Maha Sarakham Univ.)
The Relations between Thaksin Shinawatra’s Policies and Red-shirt Movement: Looking the Red-shirt Movement in Mahasarakham through Cognitive Mapping

14:50-15:30
Wataru Fujita (CSEAS/Osaka Prefecture Univ.)
The reason they became red-shirts: comparison of two villages in Ubon Ratchathani

15:40-16:10
Saowanee T. Alexander (Ubon Ratchathani Univ.)
Yingluck Shinawatra’s self-exile and ordinary Redshirt activists’ sentiments about injustice in Thai politics

16:20-16:50
Viengrat Nethipo (Chulakongkorn University)
Citizenship in politicians’ narrative: electoral linkage in the Northeastern Thailand

17:00-17:30
General discussion

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Inquiry: Wataru Fujita, Osaka Prefecture University
watarufujita[at]gmail.com