From SEZs to Thailand 4.0: Geopolitics of borderlands in the Thai state’s vision
This article uses the case of Thailand’s two economic policies –the border Special Economic Zones and the Thailand 4.0 model, to explore geopolitics of the Thai-Burmese borderland. It also discuss a theoretical gap in accounting the ways in which the state engages with transnational flows of capital...
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| description | This article uses the case of Thailand’s two economic policies –the border Special Economic Zones and the Thailand 4.0 model, to explore geopolitics of the Thai-Burmese borderland. It also discuss a theoretical gap in accounting the ways in which the state engages with transnational flows of capital and peoples, and proposes to use the concept of ‘border partial citizenship’ to bridge this gap. It argues that the shift in Thailand’s economic policy portrayed the different ways in which the Thai state envisaged its geographical territory in relations to capital and human mobility. In the border SEZ project, the Thai borderland is a site where the state loosened its relationship with its non-subjects. However, while the border regions seem increasingly opening for migrant mobility, the inner core of the Thai geo-body, a geographical territory that embodies nationhood, is proportionately hyper-sanitized by patriotic discourses of the national advancement in knowledge-based economy and the harsh policy toward undocumented migrant population |
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| spelling | doaj.art-604d8e34043547acb6ecf78ac48df48a2022-12-21T23:43:29ZengHasanuddin UniversityForest and Society2549-47242549-43332018-04-0121657810.24259/fs.v2i1.3600From SEZs to Thailand 4.0: Geopolitics of borderlands in the Thai state’s visionPhianphachong Intarat0niversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa This article uses the case of Thailand’s two economic policies –the border Special Economic Zones and the Thailand 4.0 model, to explore geopolitics of the Thai-Burmese borderland. It also discuss a theoretical gap in accounting the ways in which the state engages with transnational flows of capital and peoples, and proposes to use the concept of ‘border partial citizenship’ to bridge this gap. It argues that the shift in Thailand’s economic policy portrayed the different ways in which the Thai state envisaged its geographical territory in relations to capital and human mobility. In the border SEZ project, the Thai borderland is a site where the state loosened its relationship with its non-subjects. However, while the border regions seem increasingly opening for migrant mobility, the inner core of the Thai geo-body, a geographical territory that embodies nationhood, is proportionately hyper-sanitized by patriotic discourses of the national advancement in knowledge-based economy and the harsh policy toward undocumented migrant populationhttp://journal.unhas.ac.id/index.php/fs/article/view/3600/pdfspecial economic zone (SEZ)border partial citizenshiplabor migration policyThailandgeopolitics |
| spellingShingle | Phianphachong Intarat From SEZs to Thailand 4.0: Geopolitics of borderlands in the Thai state’s vision Forest and Society special economic zone (SEZ) border partial citizenship labor migration policy Thailand geopolitics |
| title | From SEZs to Thailand 4.0: Geopolitics of borderlands in the Thai state’s vision |
| title_full | From SEZs to Thailand 4.0: Geopolitics of borderlands in the Thai state’s vision |
| title_fullStr | From SEZs to Thailand 4.0: Geopolitics of borderlands in the Thai state’s vision |
| title_full_unstemmed | From SEZs to Thailand 4.0: Geopolitics of borderlands in the Thai state’s vision |
| title_short | From SEZs to Thailand 4.0: Geopolitics of borderlands in the Thai state’s vision |
| title_sort | from sezs to thailand 4 0 geopolitics of borderlands in the thai state s vision |
| topic | special economic zone (SEZ) border partial citizenship labor migration policy Thailand geopolitics |
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