Under and beyond the Law: Monarchy, Violence, and History in Thailand*

IF 4.1 2区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politics & Society Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.1177/00323292211033073

T. Haberkorn

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Since the end of the absolute monarchy in Thailand on June 24, 1932, the rulers and the ruled have been locked into struggle, often violent, over what form the polity and the people’s participation in it should take. This essay examines this struggle, the imagination of justice, and the inability to consolidate democracy, or even a stable government, through the lens of the monarchy, which has remained beyond accountability. Violence committed to preserve the monarchy forecloses democracy and fosters a form of what can be called modern absolutist monarchy, when some lives are visibly placed beyond the law’s protection from violence and others are made dispensable by being made subject to repressive enforcement of the law. The emergence in 2020 of a daring challenge to the position of the monarchy beyond the law refracts both the dangers it poses to democracy and the urgency of imagining a new Thai polity.

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法律之下与法律之外：泰国的君主政体、暴力与历史*

自1932年6月24日泰国君主专制制度结束以来，统治者和被统治者就政体的形式和人民的参与问题陷入了斗争，往往是暴力的。本文从君主政体的角度考察了这场斗争、对正义的想象，以及巩固民主乃至稳定政府的无能。君主政体至今仍不受问责。为维护君主制而实施的暴力阻碍了民主，并催生了一种可以被称为现代专制君主制的形式，在这种情况下，一些人的生命显然被置于法律保护之外，不受暴力侵害，而另一些人则被置于法律强制执行的压迫之下，变得可有可无。2020年出现的一场超越法律的对君主制地位的大胆挑战，既反映了它对民主构成的危险，也反映了想象一个新的泰国政体的紧迫性。

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Politics & Society Multiple-

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5.00

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4.20%

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