Burning red desires: Isan migrants and the politics of desire in contemporary Thailand

South East Asia Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 361-379

  Sopranzetti, Claudio ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capitalist desire; Political movement; Red Shirts; Sufficiency Economy; Thaksin Shinawatra

Indexed keywords

ADVOCACY; CAPITALISM; POLITICAL CONFLICT; SELF SUFFICIENCY; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL MOVEMENT;

THAILAND;

EID: 84867548876     PISSN: 0967828X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/sear.2012.0112     Document Type: Article

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