Branding Dissent:<i>Nitirat</i>, Thailand’s Enlightened Jurists

McCargo, Duncan; Tanruangporn, Peeradej

doi:10.1080/00472336.2015.1020563

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“…Another key figure was Future Forward's secretary-general Piyabutr Saengkanokkul, a leading member of Nitirat (in English, the “Enlightened Jurists”), a group of progressive Thammasat University law lecturers who pushed the envelope on politically sensitive legal matters, notably the controversial lèse-majesté law—Article 112 of the Criminal Code (McCargo and Peeradej Tanruangporn 2015). Fa Diao Kan and Nitirat were ideologically connected, and in the wake of the 2006 military coup, both were indirectly allied to the redshirt movement.…”

Section: Move Forward Party: Successor To the Future Forward Party?mentioning

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Thailand's Movement Party: The Evolution of the Move Forward Party

Laohabut,

McCargo

2024

J. East Asian Stud.

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The existing literature on the relationship between political parties and social movements draws mainly from European cases, and has rarely captured the kinds of relationships that may exist in other parts of the world. This article addresses the gap by shedding light on the dynamics of party–movement relationships in Thailand. We examine the connections between two Thai political parties and a variety of protest movements. Our analysis demonstrates that Thailand's Move Forward Party and its predecessor the Future Forward Party can be classified as movement parties, but that they operated differently. While Future Forward was a clandestine movement party, concealing its origins in grassroots activism, Move Forward later revealed its activist roots and underwent a transformation from a clandestine to a fully fledged movement party. This change was triggered by two emerging conditions: the rise of student-led mass movements and collective demands for radical change that had been ignored by other political parties.

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Section: Move Forward Party: Successor To the Future Forward Party?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Thailand's Movement Party: The Evolution of the Move Forward Party

Laohabut,

McCargo

2024

J. East Asian Stud.

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“…57 Reynolds (1993). 58 For instance by critical law professors; see McCargo and Peeradej (2015). 59 Dabphet (2009), pp.…”

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A Constitutional Ethnography of Monarchy: Buddhist Kingship, “Granted Constitutionalism,” and Royal State Ceremonies in Thailand

Mérieau

2022

AsianJLS

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This paper defines constitutional ethnography as the cultural study of constitutionalism through its symbolic representations. By focusing on the materiality of constitutionalism as embodied in various state ceremonies such as ceremonies of “royal octroy” (constitution-granting ceremonies) as well as in state monuments honouring the Constitution, it strives to offer an ethnography of a polity’s constitutional identity. In this paper, I argue that in Thailand, Westernized Hindu-Buddhist state ceremonies and monuments using Westernized Hindu-Buddhist symbolism represent the Thai monarch as the ultimate law-giver holding permanent “constituent power” and therefore yielding extra-constitutional customary powers pre-existing the Constitution. This representation, in turn, informs Thai constitutional identity as defined incrementally by courts and jurists since the early twentieth century, which in turn informs present Thai constitutional interpretation. Therefore, this paper argues that the study of state ceremonies can be a useful entry point into the analysis of a “constitutional culture” shaping modes of constitutional interpretation.

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“…The Future Forward Party (FFP) was launched in March 2018 by the scion of Thailand's largest auto-parts manufacturer, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, a billionaire who had long been a participant in activities dealing with causes of social and political reform. The co-founder was Piyabutr Saengkanokkul, a well-known young critical lawlecturer at Thammasat University, and a key member of the progressive Nitirat group ('Enlightened Jurists') at the university's Faculty of Law (McCargo and Peeradej, 2015). Piyabutr had long campaigned for reforming the country's harsh lese majesty law, without, for political reasons, pursuing this issue further in the new party.…”

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Thailand's Flawed 2019 Election Confirms the Country's Deep Political Divide

Nelson¹

2020

Global Studies

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These numerous delays occurred despite the cost of aborting a newly drafted constitution in September 2015. Clearly, the military dictators wanted to spend more time in power. However, it would be a fundamental misperception to consider this election a return to democracy, or the coup as the beginning and the election as the end of a clearly demarcated period of Thai politics. Rather, both events represent elements of an era that began in earnest with the election of telecom-tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra, chairperson (in fact, owner would be a better description) of the Thai Rak Thai (Thais Love Thai) party on 6 January 2001. At that time, Thaksin was threatened with disqualification from politics altogether having submitted wrong asset declarations when serving as a minister in a previous government. While all other similar cases did indeed see the disqualification of the accused by the Constitutional Court, in Thaksin's case, the court voted 8:7 in his favour in, what one newspaper called, a 'murky verdict' (The Nation, 4 August 2001). Obviously, a very high-ranking member of the Thai traditional elite had intervened with the judges as the upper echelons of Thai society still hoped Thaksin would bring a better political-economic future. Moreover, he had outclassed all his competitors in the elections, and was generally seen as a new-generation, visionary political leader. However, these hopes were rapidly overtaken by a very different perspective. As early as October 2001, another high-ranking member of that elite, former two-times prime minister Anand Panyarachun, ominously warned, "Danger caused by people with dictatorial inclinations has not disappeared from Thailand" (Matichon, 8 October 2001). This 1 In the headline of my chapter, I am relatively polite by using the adjective 'flawed'. The Economist, not known for mincing its words, came up with a headline that captured the situation more accurately: "After an ineptly rigged election, Thailand's junta will cling to power" (Anon, 2019c).

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Branding Dissent:Nitirat, Thailand’s Enlightened Jurists

Cited by 10 publications

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Thailand's Movement Party: The Evolution of the Move Forward Party

Thailand's Movement Party: The Evolution of the Move Forward Party

A Constitutional Ethnography of Monarchy: Buddhist Kingship, “Granted Constitutionalism,” and Royal State Ceremonies in Thailand

Thailand's Flawed 2019 Election Confirms the Country's Deep Political Divide

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