Title：A Price to Pay? How autocratization in Thailand drives anti-establishment protests
Time： 12:30-14:00, Tue. Nov. 3, 2020
Venue： Room 108, College of Social Sciences, NTU
Speaker：Janjira Sombatpoonsiri (Assistant Professor, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University)
Discussant：Kai-Ping Huang (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, NTU)
Moderator：Ming-Shu Ho (Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, NTU)
Abstract：
Not only did Thailand belong to the 3rd wave of democratisation after the 1992 democratic openings, the country is also a part of an emerging trend of the 3rd wave autocratisation as it underwent two major episodes of democratic breakdown since 2006. Against the odds, Thailand’s pro-democracy movements are currently gathering forces to counter the entrenchment of autocratic elites and institutions. In this talk, I give an overview of how this process unravels, arguing that autocratisation paradoxically creates conditions that foster and sustain a democratic struggle.
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