Moments of silence : (Record no. 720)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780824882341 (pbk.)
International Standard Book Number 0824882342 (pbk.)
International Standard Book Number 9780824882334 (hbk.)
International Standard Book Number 0824882334 (hbk.)
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)1111378715
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number DS586
Item number .T479 2020
100 0# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Thongchai Winichakul.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Moments of silence :
Remainder of title the unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, massacre in Bangkok /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Thongchai Winichakul.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Honolulu :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. University of Hawaiʻi Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. [2020]
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xx, 297 p.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note The Unforgetting of October 6 -- The Massacre and Unanswered Questions -- The Beginning of Memories -- The Trial and the Beginning of Silence -- Disquieting Silence after 1978 -- The Commemoration in 1996 -- The Good Silence -- Sliding Memory -- Silence of the Wolf -- Praxis of Memory: The Octobrists
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "The massacre on October 6, 1976, in Bangkok was brutal and violent, its savagery unprecedented in modern Thai history. Four decades later there has been no investigation into the atrocity; information remains limited, the truth unknown. There has been no collective coming to terms with what happened or who is responsible. Thai society still refuses to confront this dark page in its history. Moments of Silence focuses on the silence that surrounds the October 6 massacre. Silence, the book argues, is not forgetting. Rather it signals an inability to forget or remember-or to articulate a socially meaningful memory. It is the "unforgetting," the liminal domain between remembering and forgetting. Historian Thongchai Winichakul, a participant in the events of that day, gives the silence both a voice and a history by highlighting the factors that contributed to the unforgetting amidst changing memories of the massacre over the decades that followed. They include shifting political conditions and context, the influence of Buddhism, the royal-nationalist narrative of history, the role played by the monarchy as moral authority and arbiter of justice, and a widespread perception that the truth might have devastating ramifications for Thai society. The unforgetting impacted both victims and perpetrators in different ways. It produced a collective false memory of an incident that never took place, but it also produced silence that is filled with hope and counter-history. Moments of Silence tells the story of a tragedy in Thailand-its victims and survivors-and how Thai people coped when closure was unavailable in the wake of atrocity. But it also illuminates the unforgetting as a phenomenon common to other times and places where authoritarian governments flourish, where atrocities go unexamined, and where censorship (imposed or self-directed) limits public discourse. The tensions inherent in the author's dual role offer a riveting story, as well as a rare and intriguing perspective. Most of all, this provocative book makes clear the need to provide a place for past wrongs in the public memory"--
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Thammasat University Massacre, Bangkok, Thailand, 1976.
Topical term or geographic name entry element Collective memory
Geographic subdivision Thailand.
Topical term or geographic name entry element Psychic trauma
Geographic subdivision Thailand.
Topical term or geographic name entry element Political activists
Geographic subdivision Thailand
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 20th century.
651 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Thailand
General subdivision Politics and government
Chronological subdivision 20th century.
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Koha item type Books
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