×


 x 

Shopping cart
10%OFFDuncan McCargo - Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand - 9780801474996 - V9780801474996
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand

€ 32.99
€ 29.82
You save € 3.17!
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 13. BIC Classification: 1FMT; 3JMC; HBJF; HBLX; HBTV; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 5. Weight in Grams: 399.

Since January 2004, a violent separatist insurgency has raged in southern Thailand, resulting in more than three thousand deaths. Though largely unnoticed outside Southeast Asia, the rebellion in Pattani and neighboring provinces and the Thai government's harsh crackdown have resulted in a full-scale crisis. Tearing Apart the Land by Duncan McCargo, one of the world's leading scholars of contemporary Thai politics, is the first fieldwork-based book about this conflict. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of the region, hundreds of interviews conducted during a year's research in the troubled area, and unpublished Thai-language sources that range from anonymous leaflets to confessions ... Read more

Show Less

Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
398g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801474996
SKU
V9780801474996
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Duncan McCargo
Duncan McCargo is Professor of Southeast Asian Politics at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Chamlong Srimuang and the New Thai Politics, Politics and the Press in Thailand, Media and Politics in Pacific Asia, coauthor of The Thaksinization of Thailand, and editor of Rethinking Thailand's Southern Violence.

Reviews for Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand
In this introduction to a scandalously underreported conflict... McCargo rightly scorns the legions of post-9/11 armchair analysts who try to shoehorn every conflict with Islamic overtones into well-Googled theories of global jihad. No armchairs for this author: he researched the book by crisscrossing southern Thailand in a temperamental 1989 Mercedes, hastening back to the town of Pattani by nightfall to ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!