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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/recrafting-citizenship-cards-c
 olors-and-politic-identification-thailand/
SUMMARY:(Re)crafting Citizenship: Cards\, Colors\, and the Politic of Ident
 ification in Thailand
DESCRIPTION:\n	Pinkaew Laungaramsri (Assistant Professor\, Department of So
 ciology and Anthropology\, Chiang Mai University\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n
 	Chair/Discussant: Michael Herzfeld (Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Soc
 ial Sciences\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University)\n\n	Co-spo
 nsored with the Harvard University Asia Center\n\n\n	This talk focuses on 
 the shifting and conflicting constructions of citizenship and its complex 
 apparatus of identification card system in Thailand. Central to the resear
 ch question is how the chaotic card system in Thailand has been historical
 ly invented and utilized by state agencies in different periods of time an
 d how such inventions have contributed to the crafting of differential cit
 izenship in Thailand. The talk will also investigate the way in which the 
 state graphic artifact of ID cards has been actively learned and re-interp
 reted into the local understanding of citizenship at the margins. It conte
 nds that the culture of identification in Thailand is characterized by ten
 sion and contradiction\, the product of the interplay between shifting off
 icial forms of domination and control and minorities’ experimentation an
 d everyday practice. While state differentiation between Thai national and
  alien others has long been integral to the process of nation-building\, s
 uch attempts have often been contested. Informal politic thus plays a cruc
 ial role in shaping citizenship discourse among the Thai as well as among 
 non-Thai immigrants. Cards and colors\, as a powerful technique of statecr
 aft deployed to control mobility and fix the identity of border-crossing p
 eople\, have often been employed by non-Thai subjects as assets for circul
 ation and tools for negotiation. Pragmatic citizenship constitutes therefo
 re a reworking of national identification as something alive and practical
 --involving a multiplicity of actors struggling in an enlarged political s
 phere extending beyond the constriction of legality. It is in this realm t
 hat the non-Thai other is allowed the possibility of being both subjectifi
 ed and subject-making in the unstable state-ethnic relationship of modern 
 Thai society. \n\n	 
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