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Thongchai Winichakul is emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

内容简介

This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern conception of a nation. Siam Mapped challenges much that has been written on Thai history because it demonstrates convincingly that the physical and political definition of Thailand on which other works are based is anachronistic.


Thongchai Winichakul is emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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  • 小羊战
    最近读过的最舒服的一本书。现代民族国家框架内,人们对于国境、边界以及民族的地理性理解,居然如此晚近,如此“不自然”。对于泰国这样一个从来没有成为正式殖民地的国家,殖民主义状况还是个强有力的在场。Winichakul处理的问题其实很复杂,但是写得这么流畅。我读的时候就在想,对于地理疆域的绝对化的、科学化的理解,其实和资本主义的财产观念不谋而合,所谓前现代的relational的地理观其实不能催生人们对于土地以及资源的对象化和滥用,作为知识形态,地理学对于民族国家的符号想象以及资本主义的全球扩张是多么重要。11-17
  • 张泡沫小姐
    我们可耐的GCW教授的研究根据地哟!!爱死我们的GCW老师了,上课突然下跪求上帝放过boarderland的人们,每天都和上演话剧一样精彩!09-05
  • Fluidity
    The problem might be, the conflict between anti-colonial/decolonial movement and the sub-imperialism ever conducted by the small nations04-14
  • augustine
    A brilliant book--it is probably as significant as The Great Divergence or Imagined Community, but sadly stuck in "area studies." Wish more people will read it.12-30
  • 暮兮云
    90年代欧盟的兴起和苏联的解体,让对民族国家的讨论再次成为政治地理学的显学。本作与这一思潮同时出现,"a map created a nation" ,可谓Imagined Community的地图版。与此同时,Winichakul对话了更源远流长的本土问题:起源于西方的概念和技术(比如边界)如何定义了非西方国家的国家建设的议程和叙事;学习西方反抗殖民者的本土精英视角,如何让政治中心对边缘的镇压和统治从视野中隐去。后一点跟Duara的书共享了很多相通的见解,都是一剂对非批判性的“反东方主义”的后现代药方。问题是,在各种源流的“反东方主义”和“反-反东方主义”(比如Clark, 2020)一顿混战的二十年后,更有前景的进路在何方?12-04

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