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Truth on Trial in Thailand : Defamation, Treason, and Lse-Majest.
Explores the basics of the defamation law as it applies to private-sphere defamation and looks at the peculiar permutations created by the use of public-sphere defamation laws in Thailand, particularly in terms of creating and protecting a nationalist identity.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Colección: | Rethinking Southeast Asia
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The defamation dilemma of Thailand; 1 The truth recently discovered; Part I: Defamation and truth-producing forms in Thailand; 2 Regimes of truth, regimes of defamation; 3 Truth and treason in old Siam; Part II: Genealogies of defamation and abnormal times; 4 Chronology of Thai defamation-based laws; 5 Normalizing "abnormal times" and the "endless state of exception"; Part III: Components of defamation: intent, target, receiver; 6 Intent and import.
- 7 The insulted and defamed I: From the individual to the nation8 The insulted and defamed II: Monarchy and lse-majest; 9 The people; Part IV: Thai enemy, Thainess, and Thai truth; 10 Culture and traitor; 11 Thai-ification and colonization; 12 Defamation and truth; 13 Conclusion; Notes; Appendix I: Thai laws on defamation (slander and libel); Appendix II: Five versions of the Thai law on sedition; Appendix III: Four versions of the Thai lse majest law and two proposed amendme.