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Session Submission Type: Organized Panel
This two-part panel explores an underrepresented dimension of changing political economies: that of emotions (See Gammerl 2012, Reddy 2008). By taking this approach, we move away from essentialized approaches in which an “emotional style” is permanently linked to a “culture”. The papers in this double panel cover work from all three countries of the Thailand/Laos/Cambodia group as well as Tai groups in Vietnam. The goal of the panel is to deconstruct fixed notions of emotions and explore variations in emotional practices based on political-economic circumstances that differ either over time (historically) or between social groups (such as dominant and subordinate groups). The panel includes both senior and junior scholars and graduate students from different institutions (U.S., Germany, Australia, Canada, Thailand) as well as different fields such as anthropology and political science.
Part One takes up the culturally and regionally salient concept of intersubjectivity and emotions, and how it is affected by political, economic and historical contexts. Tooker looks at the intersubjective dimensions of emotions among the Akha of Northern Thailand and how, with market-oriented changes, a ‘collective desire’ develops as opposed to that of individual subjectivity. Johnson looks at uncertain intimacy among migrant Thai women who have partners and family both at home and abroad. DeAngelo looks at how intersubjectivity is emphasized over the autonomous individual in the construction of intimate enemies in Cambodia. Amporn looks at how exaggerated emotion in Thai soap operas are popular in Cambodia, relating that to Cambodian notions of morality and the relationship to others.
Collective Desire and Moral-Spiritual Resistance to Individual Emotional Interiority in the Rising Market Economy among the Akha - Deborah Ellen Tooker, Le Moyne College
Deferral and Intimacy: Long-Distance Romance and Thai Migrants Abroad - Andrew A. Johnson, Princeton University
Cross-Cultural Emotional Effects of Thai Television Dramas among Cambodian Audiences - Amporn Jirattikorn, Chiang Mai University
Metta Means I’m Sorry You’re Sorry: Conflating Subject-Object Perspectives to Reconcile Intimate Enemies in Cambodia - Darcie DeAngelo, Mc Gill University