Thailand's Far South by Kee Howe Yong - 9781487556129

Thailand's Far SouthEngaging the Difficult Realities in a Recurring Conflict\nAuthor(s): Kee Howe Yong\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487556129, 978-1487556129\nSynopsis\nIn Thailands Far South, Kee Howe Yong sheds light on the Malay Muslims in Thailands 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.\n\n 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, Yon.