Title: The fragility of power: the unstable politics of Thailand. Speaker: Dr. Claudio Sopranzetti Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford University, CSEAS Visiting Research Scholar Date: Thursday, February 23, 2017, 16:00- Venue: Large-sized Meeting Room (No. 333) 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Building, Kyoto University Abstract: This talk explores the unstable politics of Thailand in the last decade. It does so in three acts. In Act 1, I go back to my previous work on motorcycle taxi drivers and show how, during the 2010 protest, they revealed cracks in the state apparatus and its inability to control its own territory and subjects. In Act 2, I zoom out from the drivers and explore [ Read More ]