Truth on trial in Thailand : defamation, treason, and lese-majeste /
David Streckfuss
- New York : Routledge, 2010
- xvii, 488 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Rethinking Southeast Asia .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [434]-462) and index
The truth recently discovered -- Regimes of truth, regimes of defamation -- Truth and treason in old Siam -- Chronology of Thai defamation-based laws -- Normalizing'abnormal times' and the endless state of exception -- Intent and import -- The insulted and defamed (the individual to the nation) -- The insulted and defamed (monarchy and lese-majeste) -- The people -- Culture and traitor -- Thai-ification and colonisation -- Defamation and truth