{"id":4374,"date":"2019-02-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2019-03-14T23:24:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T14:24:53","slug":"fy2018i-2fujita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/en\/fy2018i-2fujita\/","title":{"rendered":"I-2. &#8220;Transformation of Living Environments and Political Changes among Peasants in a Semi-developed Country: A Case Study of Northeast Thailand&#8221; (H29-30 FY2017-2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"box-member\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Project Leader<\/strong> : Fujita Wataru (Osaka Prefecture University, School of Sustainable System Sciences)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Collaborators<\/strong> : Viengrat Nethipo (Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Political Science)<\/li>\n<li class=\"name-indent-en\"> : Saowanee T. Alexander (Ubon Ratchathani University Faculty of Liberal Arts)<\/li>\n<li class=\"name-indent-en\"> : Prasongchai Setthasuravich (Mahasarakham University, College of Politics and Governance)<\/li>\n<li class=\"name-indent-en\"> : Okamoto Masaaki (Kyoto University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h4 class=\"base_h4\">Outline of Research<\/h4>\n<p>This research analyzes the changes in farmers\u2019 political awareness and behavior in rural areas of Northeast Thailand in relation to livelihood, lifestyle, and ecological environments. The members will conduct statistical analysis and qualitative case studies in the research sites regarding the transformation of livelihood economy, agriculture, lifestyle, conditions of natural environments and resources, as well as farmers\u2019 non-traditional political behavior and organizations. The results will be intensively discussed and theoretically examined in a series of meetings held at the Bangkok Liaison Office of CSEAS, Kyoto University. External experts will be invited to the meetings in order to share information and deepen theoretical arguments.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"base_h5\">Description<\/h5>\n<p>The rural areas of Northeast Thailand, or Isan, have long been thought of as the poorest area of the country. However, recent price rises in rubber and cassava have accelerated the \u2018urbanization\u2019 of farmers\u2019 lifestyles and upgraded their socio-economic status. They are no longer \u2018poor.\u2019 This research investigates the relationship between socio-economic changes in rural society and the consequent degradation of natural resources, disconnection from ecological environments, and increased dependence on the globalized market economy, as well as with the political awareness and behavior of rural populations. Special attention is given to active commitments to the so-called \u2018red shirt\u2019 movement demanding democracy and electoral politics, with strong support to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.<\/p>\n<p>The members plan to conduct statistical analyses of the relationship between the distribution of communities that were actively committed to the \u2018red shirt\u2019 movement and various socio-economic and environmental factors. They will also conduct in-depth case studies of both \u2018red shirt\u2019 active communities and non-active communities, and other particular cases witnessing changes in rural social organization or farmers\u2019 consciousness from a traditional patron-client orientation to more industry, policy, and rights-based orientations.<\/p>\n<p>Previous studies have examined the rise in rural consciousness of democracy. However, the socio-economic and ecological contexts of this rise have not yet been investigated. In this study, the interrelationship between the changing lifestyles in rural areas and the increasing awareness of democracy and its accompanying sense of rights among farmers is examined in detail both by statistical and qualitative research as described above.<\/p>\n<p>The statistical and field-based studies are carried out principally by other budgetary sources, including a KAKENHI grant from the Ministry of Education. In this IPCR project, the members will hold a series of meetings to intensively discuss the results of the above research, analyze data from the various theoretical viewpoints of members\u2019 academic backgrounds, including political science, social linguistics, and environmental sociology and anthropology. Non-member experts, particularly those staying in Thailand, will also be invited in order to widen the scope of arguments. By doing so, we will elucidate the political-ecological situation of rural areas in \u2018semi-developed\u2019 or \u2018middle income\u2019 countries.<\/p>\n<table class=\"table-caption\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fy2018i-2-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fy2018i-2-1.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nInterview with a village headman<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fy2018i-2-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fy2018i-2-2.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDense discussion about research findings with members and prominent academics in Bangkok<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Leader : Fujita Wataru (Osaka Prefecture University, School of Sustainable System Sciences) Collaborat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"3616","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[21],"class_list":{"0":"post-4374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-type-i","7":"tag-thailand","8":"en-US","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oDLW-18y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5329,"href":"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions\/5329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}