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| A Constitutional Ethnography of Monarchy: Buddhist Kingship, “Granted Constitutionalism,” and Royal State Ceremonies in Thailand | ||
| 作者 | Mérieau, Eugénie (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Asian Journal of Law and Society |
| 卷期 | v.9 n.3 |
| 出版日期 | 2022.10 |
| 頁次 | 363 - 381 |
| 出版者 | Cambridge University Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.cambridge.org/ |
| 出版地 | Cambridge, UK [劍橋, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Affiliation: Faculty of Law, University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris. |
| 關鍵詞 | Thailand; monarchy; Buddhist kingship; state ceremonies; constitutional ethnography; constitutional culture |
| 摘要 | This paper defines constitutional ethnography as the cultural study of constitutionalism through its symbolic representations. By focusing on the materiality of constitutionalism as embodied in various state ceremonies such as ceremonies of “royal octroy” (constitution-granting ceremonies) as well as in state monuments honouring the Constitution, it strives to offer an ethnography of a polity’s constitutional identity. In this paper, I argue that in Thailand, Westernized Hindu-Buddhist state ceremonies and monuments using Westernized Hindu-Buddhist symbolism represent the Thai monarch as the ultimate law-giver holding permanent “constituent power” and therefore yielding extra-constitutional customary powers pre-existing the Constitution. This representation, in turn, informs Thai constitutional identity as defined incrementally by courts and jurists since the early twentieth century, which in turn informs present Thai constitutional interpretation. Therefore, this paper argues that the study of state ceremonies can be a useful entry point into the analysis of a “constitutional culture” shaping modes of constitutional interpretation. |
| 目次 | Abstract 363 Keywords 363 1. Introduction 363 2. Constitutional ethnography: deciphering constitutional culture 365 2.1 What is “constitutional culture” and how to study it? 366 2.2 Cultural understandings of law and sovereignty in Thailand: Buddhist kingship 368 3. “Democracy with the King as Head of State”: the puzzle of Thailand’s constitutional identity 369 3.1 “90 Years of DKHS”: a state official narrative 370 3.2 DKHS as enforced by the Constitutional Court 371 4. Interpreting DKHS through constitutional symbolism: state ceremonies and monuments 373 4.1 Royal coronation ceremonies 373 4.2 Constitution-granting ceremonies 375 4.3 A tale of two monuments: Democracy Monument and Safeguarding the Democracy Monument 377 5. Concluding remarks 379 References 379 |
| ISSN | 20529015 (P); 20529023 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1017/als.2022.30 |
| 點閱次數 | 2 |
| 建檔日期 | 2024.09.10 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.09.10 |
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