A sovereign atmosphere

IF 1.9 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

American Ethnologist Pub Date : 2025-04-15 DOI:10.1111/amet.13414

Malavika Reddy

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Abstract

In 2018 and 2019, the Bureau of the Royal Household sponsored a festival in Bangkok called Love and Warmth at Winter's End. Framed as a gift to the Thai people from the then uncrowned King Vajiralongkorn, the free event immersed visitors in vintage imagery and experiences sympathetic to royal absolutism, recruiting visitors to experience as pleasant a past era in which the Thai king's power was absolute. Through an analysis of what visitors described as the festival's fun, Thai atmosphere, I develop a political theory of atmospheres, wherein sovereignty can be understood as a claim to constituting the social through a seemingly immaterial (“fun,” “Thai,” in this case) atmosphere enveloping its members.

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至高无上的气氛

2018年和2019年，王室事务局在曼谷赞助了一个名为“冬末的爱与温暖”的节日。作为当时未加冕的国王哇集拉隆功（Vajiralongkorn）送给泰国人民的礼物，这一免费活动让游客沉浸在对王室专制主义的同情中，让游客愉快地体验泰国国王权力绝对的过去时代。通过对游客所描述的节日的乐趣和泰国氛围的分析，我发展了一种气氛的政治理论，其中主权可以被理解为通过包围其成员的看似非物质的（在这种情况下是“乐趣”和“泰国”）氛围来构建社会的主张。

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American Ethnologist ANTHROPOLOGY-

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2.40

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8.70%

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期刊介绍： American Ethnologist is a quarterly journal concerned with ethnology in the broadest sense of the term. Articles published in the American Ethnologist elucidate the connections between ethnographic specificity and theoretical originality, and convey the ongoing relevance of the ethnographic imagination to the contemporary world.