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| Re-Centreing the City: Spirits, Local Wisdom, and Urban Design at the Three Kings Monument of Chiang Mai | ||
| 作者 | Johnson, Andrew |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of Southeast Asian Studies |
| 卷期 | v.42 n.3 |
| 出版日期 | 2011.10 |
| 頁次 | 511 - 531 |
| 出版者 | Department of History, National University of Singapore |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/hist/publications/publications2_1.htm |
| 出版地 | Arts Link, Singapore |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | Recent political events, such as the coup of 2006 or the ‘Red Shirt’ uprisings of 2010 underlined the divisions in Thai society between the provinces and the capital. As one of the world's most primate cities, Bangkok exerts a tremendous political, economic and cultural force upon the rest of Thailand. But how is such pressure interpreted, internalised and/or subverted? In this article, I look at Thailand's second-largest city, Chiang Mai, in Thailand's North, and the struggle to cure an increasing sense of urban crisis and thereby assert the former independent capital's symbolic authority vis-à-vis Bangkok. I examine this by looking at two specific discourses: that of architecture and spirit mediumship. Northern Thai architects attempt to cure Chiang Mai's ills through recourse to the ‘cultural heritage’ of the city's urban space, while spirit mediums call upon the sacred power of that space in order to restore Chiang Mai's ‘lost’ prosperity. The focal point for each effort lies at the city's centre: the Three Kings Monument and its surrounding plaza (khuang). Here, each group casts themselves as those most able to put Chiang Mai's past in physical form and thereby ensure Chiang Mai's future. In this article, I examine how ideas of cultural heritage become entwined with magico-religious concepts of power (sak). In each, there is a search for efficacious power in the face of political and cultural domination from Bangkok. |
| 目次 | Introduction 511 Monumentalism and heritage 512 The Three Kings Monument 513 Centre and periphery 516 Supernatural efficacy 517 Possessed by the past 518 Magical benefit to the city 520 Changing roles of spirits and spirit cults 520 Mediumship and anxiety 522 Planning the past 524 Resurrecting urban space 526 The absent centre 530 |
| ISSN | 00224634 (P); 14740680 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0022463411000385 |
| 點閱次數 | 94 |
| 建檔日期 | 2017.06.01 |
| 更新日期 | 2019.12.19 |
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