Dystopia as Liberation: Disturbing Femininities in Contemporary Thailand

Abstract

Such forces serve to symbolically disturb and destabilise middle class constructions of a utopian vision of Thainess with Bangkok as its cultural core. This paper examines instances of how and why the counter-strategy of primitivism and monstrosity has developed, and the extent to which it translates "dystopian" expressions of female sexuality in new imaginaries of "dystopia" as a space of liberation from stultifying cultural and political norms.