Of (the Feminist) Bureaucrats’ Writing on the ‘Other’ ThaiWomen: A Reading through Postcolonial Feminist Lens

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Abstract

Based on the assumption that the bureaucracy not only administers but also ‘produces knowledge’ through its policies , this study will examine the 1st Thai government’s plan entitled, The Five Year Plan on Woman and Development (1982-1987), and its effects on ( women’s lives, inparticular) Pornpet Meuansri, a farmer who fought her landrights. This plan will be read alongside Mohanty’s essay, “Under Western Eyes” (1984). Structurally, this study is divided into three parts: (From) “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and ColonialDiscourses”(to) Thai Bureaucrats and the Construction and Representation of (Rural)Thai Women in the National Development Plan, and (and) Its Critique,

Presenter

• Sinith Sittirak, Thammasat University