Regional Identities in Southeast Asia: Contemporary Challenges, Historical Fractures Moral Order and roles in Thai society

and roles in Thai society of Buddhist nuns (mae chii)

“Rights To Culture explores one of the most important and conceptually difficult topics in current heritage studies through case studies located in a nation of significant ethnic diversity and political complexity

femininity

or more precisely the space they offered to gay people at a particular period in time

and practitioners of cultural heritage in Thailand and Southeast Asia

Regional Identities in Southeast Asia: Contemporary Challenges, Historical Fractures Moral Order and roles in Thai societyEdited by Jayeel Cornelio and Volker Grabowsky Southeast Asia, as a regional configuration of nation states called ASEAN, is a community of multiple identities. Over time, its citizens loyalties were formed around national and transnational frameworks involving ethnic, religious, and ideological affinities. In the post independence period, they were impacted by the processes of decolonization, nation building, the Cold War, globalization, and the rise