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A Thousand Cuts: Digital Repression and Pro-Democracy Movements in Thailand

A Thousand Cuts: Digital Repression and Pro-Democracy Movements in Thailand

Sombatpoonsiri, Janjira

Hardcover

Series: New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies

Technology & EngineeringSocial MovementsSoutheast Asian History

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ISBN10: 0299359700
ISBN13: 9780299359706
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Pages: 250
Language: English

In response to the 2020-21 youth-led protests throughout Thailand, which were largely fueled by discourse on digital platforms, the government launched a sweeping program of technological suppression. Smear campaigns were orchestrated to discredit young activists, laws were weaponized to criminalize their activities, and surveillance technologies were deployed to keep tabs on them.

In A Thousand Cuts, Janjira Sombatpoonsiri traces the historical development of repression in Thailand, detailing how traditional methods of repression have been merged with digital tools to maintain the status quo since 2005, when mass mobilization started to move online. By examining the adverse effects of digital repression on individual activists--their mental health, private lives, and socioeconomic resources--Sombatpoonsiri also offers one of the first systematic analyses of the reception side of repression, shedding light on its detrimental consequences for activists and mass movements as a whole.

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