1st Edition
Thailand’s Buddhist Kingship in the 20th and 21st Centuries Power, Influence and Rites
Part I: Notions of ‘Kingship’ and ‘Monarchy’
1. The Setbacks and Misfortunes of Kingship
2. About Kingship in a Tai Context
Part II: Chakri Kingship: In Between Tradition, Nation and Constitution
3. The Modernisation of Siamese Kingship and Its Ups And Downs, 1826-1945
4. Kingship Restoration in The Wake of Urbanisation (1946-1988)
5. The Tentative Merging of Kingship and Democracy (1988-2006)
6. Institutional Melt-Down (2006-2020)
Part III: The Crown as Stabilizer?
7. The Privy Council: Its Articulation with Power
8. Royal Finances and Parami
9. Royal Symbolism and Popular Acknowledgement
Part IV: Eschatological Anguish, Institutional Unravelling and Royal Advent
10. Mounting Frustration
11. From Eschatological Anguish at The End of the 9th Reign to Chaos
12. Implosion of Consensus
Conclusion
Appendix A: Lexicon of the Main Siamese, Sanskrit, and Pali Terms
Appendix B: Thematic Bibliography
Biography
Marie-Sybille de Vienne is Professor of Southeast Asian Politics at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, France, member of the French Academy for Overseas Science and the author of Brunei, From the Age of Commerce to the 21st Century.
