Civil Society And Democratization
Social Movements in Northeast Thailand
Somchai Phatharathananunth

ISBN-13 978-87-91114-85-4
January 2006, 263 pp., 140x215 mm
Baht 695

• First major work on the SSFAI and related organizations.
• Demonstrates how civil society organizations in the form of social movements contribute to the democratization process.
• A ‘sophisticated, well-researched and extremely important contribution to Thai political studies’ (external reviewer).

This book is for anyone wondering whatever happened to Thailand’s vanished Marxist insurgents or interested in understanding the forces behind the mass demonstrations of peasants that periodically descend on Bangkok. By investigating the struggle of an important social movement in Thailand, the Small Scale Farmers’ Assembly of Isan (SSFAI), the book demonstrates how civil society organizations in the form of social movements contribute to the democratization process in the key areas of citizenship rights. The book also addresses two important themes in social movements research: the impacts of strategies and tactics on the outcomes of social movements, and the effect of organizational structure on movements’ goals and activities.