Thailand's Far South

Engaging the Difficult Realities in a Recurring Conflict

Kee Howe Yong

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University of Toronto Press
03 January 2025

Social & cultural history; Ethnic studies; Black & Asian studies; Social & cultural anthropology; Warfare & defence

In Thailand's Far South, Kee Howe Yong sheds light on the Malay Muslims in Thailand's far south. The book focuses on the relationship between the construction of minorities

and thus majority

and issues of engaging with the difficulties of their realities: loss, violence, history, memory, livelihood, fear and paranoia, and political formations.

The book explores the ways in which regimes of fear affect the way minorities relate to one another and to those in authority. It reveals how Muslim identities in southern Thailand are produced

under what constraints and structures, and by what technologies and force. Drawing on methodologies of narrative theory, performative aspects of language, and questions of history and memory, Yong demonstrates the ways the conflict was and is differently engaged by Malay Muslim interlocutors. The book addresses the generally ignored topic of the varied positions of the Malay Muslims at the borderland of Thailand's far south and the implications of these positions in understanding the meaning of the current insurgency for the heterogeneous Malay Muslim population. In doing so, Thailand's Far South provides an invaluable contribution to the southern Thai conflict, fieldwork in conflict zones, and the literature on violence, political science, history, security studies, and philosophies of violence.

By: Kee Howe Yong
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781487556129
ISBN 10: 1487556128
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 03 January 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introduction: A Recurring Conflict 1. The Historical Debris of the Sultanate of Patani 2. Forms of Life 3. The Mak Pasar 4. Households and Marital Unions, the Subject of Insecure Existence 5. Hiding the Clouds with the Palm of Your Hands 6. On Muslimness 7. War on Terror 8. Development and Cultural Spectacles Bibliography Index

Kee Howe Yong is an associate professor of anthropology at McMaster University.

Reviews for Thailand's Far South: Engaging the Difficult Realities in a Recurring Conflict

""Thailand's Far South is a vividly embedded ethnography and empathic navigation of a minoritized frontier and political periphery, constituted in part by agonistic executive powers and in part by the hauntology of the recursive temporalities and murk of a violence anticipated as a memory-to-come.""--Allen Feldman, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University ""Thailand's Far South offers a breakthrough exploration into the complexities of violence encountered by Malay Muslims amid recurring shadow insurgencies. Kee Howe Yong delves into the realities of the lives and livelihoods of ordinary civilians in the conflict zone through narratives in their vernacular language. Yong's ethnographic prowess and sensitivity shed light on violence as a daily experience at the interface between the national territory of Buddhist Thailand and the maritime Malay world.""--Noboru Ishikawa, Professor of Anthropology at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University