Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand

出版日期：2017
作者：Ross King
頁數：334 pages
開數：229mm x 152mm
ISBN：9789814722278
出版社：NUS Press

▍內容簡介：
Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand explores the intersections of memory, place, power and tourism in the production of Thai heritage and identity. The author shows that underlying officially promulgated ideas is a much deeper, richer and sometimes darker substratum of memories and practices that both undermine and enrich conventional ideas of Thailand as a Kingdom, a nation and a culture.

The book views Thai culture and its heritage from a variety of perspectives that are derived from the work of Thai scholars but refracted through a more Western epistemology and its attendant critical theory. Through a juxtaposition of Thai and Western critical scholarship, it highlights key elements of Thai identity or, more accurately, the diversity of Thai identities. In the process, the book raises questions about both Thai and Western thinking about knowledge and its production.

▍作者簡介：
Ross King is a professorial fellow and formerly Dean in the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is currently engaged in research and graduate supervision in various Southeast Asian universities.