Beyond the leader: an ideational-political logics approach to redshirt movement populism in Thailand

Connors, Michael Kelly

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%T Beyond the leader: an ideational-political logics approach to redshirt movement populism in Thailand
%A Connors, Michael Kelly
%J Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
%N 3
%P 333-358
%V 41
%D 2022
%K Verhältnis Gesellschaft - Staat; Thai politics; Thaksin Shinawatra; Redshirt movement; friend/enemy
%@ 1868-4882
%~ GIGA
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/18681034221127041
%X By twinning the ideational and political logic approaches to populism, this article offers an original interpretation of the Redshirt movement in Thailand. The article extensively uses pro-Thaksin media sources and booklets to demonstrate how the Redshirt movement in Thailand appropriated the formerly authoritarian Thaksin as an empty signifier. This article fills a significant gap by exploring how ideational elements of the Redshirt movement fostered the emergence of a populist subject that struggled for a liberal constitutional re-foundation of Thai politics.
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%G en
%9 Zeitschriftenartikel
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