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Politics of Community-Based Research (CBR)

Politics of Community-Based Research (CBR). Chalita Bundhuwong Thai Social Movement Watch (TSMW) East-West Center Degree Fellow 2009-2012 PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa , USA. Red Shirt Movement. Ngan Vijai Tai Ban Pak Moon.

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Politics of Community-Based Research (CBR)

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  1. Politics of Community-Based Research (CBR) ChalitaBundhuwong Thai Social Movement Watch (TSMW) East-West Center Degree Fellow 2009-2012 PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA

  2. Red Shirt Movement

  3. Ngan Vijai Tai Ban Pak Moon

  4. The Thailand Research Fund (TRF)

  5. Nganvijai tai ban/chao ban vs. CBR Ngan vijai tai ban/chao ban CBR NOT criticizing state’s policies Collaboration with other organizations Only way to empower • criticizing state’s policies • A part of empowerment process

  6. CBR in Context of Thai Civil Society Thai Civil Society as the solution of “crises” caused by liberal democracy and liberal capitalism

  7. The success of Thai Civil Society • Thai Civil Society as main attribute of Thai people movement • Pushing some laws, regulations, and policies • Initiating the founding of governmental independent organizations • Being appointed in high rank positions

  8. Thai Civil Society as an adaptive apparatus of “Thai state”

  9. Participatory Democracy/ Deliberative Democracy

  10. Mass Killing by Thai State (April-May 2010) and Thai Civil Society

  11. The Attributes of CBR (1) • The traditional way to define and represent ‘community’. • ‘Community’ as being fixed, static, and homogenous

  12. The Attributes of CBR (2): CBR as a Blue Print palang lae poompunya thongthin (local strength and wisdom) would happen or could be revitalized only through CBR

  13. The Attributes of CBR (3): • The disguise of structural problems and political inequality • Kon Dee (good fellows)

  14. CBR for Whom? • The monopoly of CBR by Thai Civil Society elites • The rights of all groups of people to get access to and utilize CBR

  15. Thank You

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