Multiculturalism from Below: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Recognition in Thailand

Morton, Micah F.

doi:10.1086/723074

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“…It is the placement of the digital code on top of a disembodied, simplified map of Thailand that locates individuals within national borders while simultaneously obscuring their physical (and political) place in the nation. While analyzes focused primarily on identification regimes (e.g., Flaim, 2017) have overlooked this sleight of hand, highlanders themselves have long been aware of its effect: Indeed, they have courageously called for state recognition of their citizenship and land claims since the consolidation of a pan-highlander movement at the turn of the millennium (Prasit, 2019;Morton, 2023).…”

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Identity digitalization as dispossession and entrenched displacement: digitalization at the nexus of migration “management” and climate change in Thailand and Türkiye

Flaim,

Nawyn

2024

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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Digitalizing technologies are increasingly heralded by a range of powerful actors and some human rights organizations as appropriate and necessary tools for ‘managing migration’ and mitigating climate change. Yet, just as exclusionary and marginalizing discourses of “migration problems” serve to justify the digital surveillance of vulnerable and precariously statused people, the context of climate change, accelerating contestation over land and water, and discourses of catastrophe prove fertile ground for entrenching these practices and technologies in multiple ways. Researchers are identifying the dispossessive power of digitalization in the arena of personal identification and in relation to resource and land mapping, yet these dynamics are rarely interrogated in connection. In this comparative analysis, we draw from sustained ethnographic engagement and insights in critical digitalization studies and political economy to analyze the consequences of state efforts to digitalize identity and resources in Thailand and Türkiye in the age of the Anthropocene. Our research points to a need for greater attention to the ways that state efforts to digitalize identification and registration of immigrant, refugee, and stateless people link with, and can facilitate, more efficient dispossessions and displacements of precariously statused communities from vital and contested lands.

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Identity digitalization as dispossession and entrenched displacement: digitalization at the nexus of migration “management” and climate change in Thailand and Türkiye

Flaim,

Nawyn

2024

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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Expanding Protected Areas Globally Post-2020: A Critical Perspective from Thailand, with Implications for Community Forestry

Herse,

Tantipisanuh,

Chutipong

et al. 2024

Critical Asian Studies

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Border Tensions for Rethinking Communication and Development: A Case of Building History in Ticoya Resguardo

Herrera-Huérfano,

Ochoa-Almanza,

Fayad Sanz

2024

Social Sciences

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This article proposes rethinking communication, development, and social change from a decolonial perspective through the case study of the Ticoya resguardo. It examines how the oral traditions of Indigenous elders construct a history of the territory, positioning orality as a practice of communicative and cognitive justice that transcends the dominant structures of the nation-state. Border tensions are explored both as a physical reality between Colombia and Peru and as a metaphor for identity conflicts. The theoretical framework incorporates debates on post-development, pluriverse, and southern epistemologies, challenging social inequalities. A qualitative methodology based on the praxeological method was implemented in four stages in collaboration with the resguardo’s communications committee. Producing a radio series narrated by participants was crucial for gathering the elders’ narratives through conversations, social mapping, and storytelling. The findings emphasize the break with linear temporality in narratives, the sense of territory beyond state borders, and the identity tensions of river dwellers. The conclusion underscores the necessity of a decolonial perspective, recognizing the impact of monocultures in obscuring diverse forms of life. The Ticoya resguardo case illustrates how communicative justice can highlight the local and everyday, considering the territory essential in the pluriverse, aligning with Escobar’s and Santos’ proposals on transitions toward a pluriversal world.

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Multiculturalism from Below: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Recognition in Thailand

Cited by 3 publications

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Identity digitalization as dispossession and entrenched displacement: digitalization at the nexus of migration “management” and climate change in Thailand and Türkiye

Identity digitalization as dispossession and entrenched displacement: digitalization at the nexus of migration “management” and climate change in Thailand and Türkiye

Expanding Protected Areas Globally Post-2020: A Critical Perspective from Thailand, with Implications for Community Forestry

Border Tensions for Rethinking Communication and Development: A Case of Building History in Ticoya Resguardo

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