denny Ethnic & National book

Just over a year ago, in the midst of the stand-off among Thai government forces, red-shirted members of the United Democratic Front Against Dictatorship (UDD), and other murky actors, Thai Studies scholars at ANU gathered for 'Thailand on the Verge' [See video here: www.youtube.com to talk about the unfolding crisis in the streets. One year later, Thailand is no longer on the verge. Instead, the country appears to be reaching a political, social, historic and economic limit.There is a growing war on the border with Cambodia, the PM Abhisit government and the UDD are locked into conflict with one another, possible elections are on the horizon, and competing versions of the truth of April-May 2010 are being offered by different factions. Long-term crises -- the rise in the use of terrorist tactics and the laws to address them, economic inequality, and the precarity of ethnic minorities and migrants -- remain unresolved. In this video scholars from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and the ANU College of Law discuss the political, economic, historic, and cultural limits of the present situation. Speakers: Dr Pongphisoot Busbarat, School of International, Political, and Strategic Studies Dr Nicholas Farrelly, School of Regulation, Justice, and Diplomacy Dr Jane Ferguson, School of Culture, History and Language Dr Mark Nolan, ANU College of Law Dr Craig Reynolds, School of Culture, History and Language Dr Andrew Walker, School of International, Political, and Strategic ...