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Sep 27, 2024
Mark Tamthai: Remembering Chaiwat Satha-Anand
In Conversation with Duncan McCargo
Summary
Why was the late Ajarn Chaiwat Satha-Anand so passionate about bringing peace to Thailand’s deep south? How did he try to speak nonviolence to Thai power elites? In this episode of Talking Thai Politics, Ajarn Mark Tamthai of Payap University talks about his memories of working with Chaiwat, especially their efforts to end the ongoing violent conflict in the Malay-Muslim-majority region that includes Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat.
Chaiwat Satha-Anand (1955-2024) was a professor of political science at Thammasat University and one of Thailand’s most eminent social scientists. A political philosopher among whose core interests were Islam and non-violence, his numerous books included The Life of this World: negotiated Muslim lives in Thai society (2005) and Imagined Land: the state and southern violence in Thailand (2009).
The article by Chaiwat mentioned in the episode is ‘The Silence of the Bullet Monument’, Critical Asian Studies 38, 1, 2006, at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14672710600556411
The English version of the 2006 National Reconciliation Commission Report (for which Chaiwat was the lead author) may be found here https://thaipolitics.leeds.ac.uk/projects/southern-thai-insurgency-2/southern-thai-insurgency/
Mark Tamthai is a former head of the Department of Philosophy at Chulalongkorn University and former director of the Institute of Religion, Culture and Peace at Payap University.
Duncan McCargo is President’s Chair in Global Affairs at Nanyang Technological University.
Talking Thai Politics brings crafted conversations about the politics of Thailand to a global audience. Created by the Generation Thailand project at Nanyang Technological University, the podcast is co-hosted by Duncan McCargo and Chayata Sripanich. Our production assistant is Li Xinruo.
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Duncan McCargo is an eclectic, internationalist political scientist, and literature buff: his day job is teaching Southeast Asian politics at NTU in Singapore.
