Red Journeys: Inside the Thai red-shirt movement Rights politics Yos Santasombat is Professor of

Yos Santasombat is Professor of Anthropology at Chiang Mai University

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Case studies are provided of three groups of actors—the student movement

“This book on contemporary Thai foreign policy plugs a gaping hole in Thai studies and its overwhelming focus on politics and political economy

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Red Journeys: Inside the Thai red-shirt movement Rights politics Yos Santasombat is Professor ofRed Journeys is a firsthand account of the emergence and expansion of the redshirt protests in Bangkok that took place in 2010. It traces the origins of the protest, focusing on the unique voices, stories, and motives of those who participated in the movement. Sopranzetti vividly depicts daily life in the heart of the movement and when the peaceful occupation descended into violence and neared its tragic end, he describes the final moments of the