Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Thongchai Winichakul  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Moments of silence [Texte imprimé] : the unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, massacre in Bangkok / Thongchai Winichakul

Publication : Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, copyright [2020]

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xx, 297 pages) : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references p. 271-283 and index
"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"

Sujet(s) : Massacres -- Mémoire collective -- Bangkok (Thaïlande) -- 1970-....  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Traumatisme psychique -- Thaïlande -- 1970-....  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Militants politiques -- Thaïlande -- 1970-....  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Thammasat university (Bangkok) -- 1970-....  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780824882334. - ISBN 0824882334. - ISBN 9780824882341. - ISBN 0824882342. - ISBN 9780824882860 (erroné). - ISBN 9780824882877 (erroné). - ISBN 9780824882853 (erroné)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb47302530r

Notice n° :  FRBNF47302530 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : 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