Communities of Potential

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This book provides fresh ways of looking at community movements and social actors in Thailand, Cambodia, and Myanmar. The chapters cover a wide range of movements, from personal and social development based on Buddhist principles to community movements centered on other religious, spiritual, and traditional practices. Community movements differ markedly in their practices and o...(展開全部) This book provides fresh ways of looking at community movements and social actors in Thailand, Cambodia, and Myanmar. The chapters cover a wide range of movements, from personal and social development based on Buddhist principles to community movements centered on other religious, spiritual, and traditional practices. Community movements differ markedly in their practices and organization from the classic social movements of the early twentieth century or the subsequent “new social movements.” Anthropologist Shigeharu Tanabe and several Thai and Japanese colleagues explain that a key feature of these community movements is “assemblage”—disparate and multiple individuals or groups coming together in alliances or networks that enable them to actualize their potential and achieve their goals. Building on theoretical foundations developed by philosopher Gilles Deleuze, psychotherapist Félix Guattari, and others, this book is an important reference on the workings of community movements in Southeast Asia. Shigeharu Tanabe is professor emeritus at the National Museum of Ethnology in Japan and currently teaches social anthropology at the Center for Ethnic Studies and Development and the Japanese Studies Center, Chiang Mai University.

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