DinDeng Analysand

Welcome to mythbusters, where we're busting myths. Sugarcane, rice, slash and burn, crossborder smoke. B-b-b-busted.



Hotspot readings: 22/04/2024

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All music we used can be found in this playlist.

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Every year, for 2-3 months the entire Northern region of Thailand, as well as large areas of Laos and Burma, suffocate under smoke.



This annual climate apocalypse is a relatively new phenomenon, beginning around 20 years ago and rapidly increasing in intensity. The cause, in our opinion, is a conspiracy. This conspiracy is a product of a decades-long interplay between state and capital, the birthing of mass agribusiness, monopolisation of markets, of coups, of massacres in the streets and of networks of dark finance and patronage.


We hope to answer a couple of key questions that I’m often asked. Such as, how and why does this happen? And why can’t anyone seem to do anything about it?


https://dindeng.com/power-for-peasants-en/

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All music we used can be found in this playlist.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6imAcIOd2AjxZ3wgE1AA?si=61945fc24c124820

War is over. Let us usher in the golden age of Thai capitalism and bring our series to a close as we explore counterinsurgency in peacetime, finally answering the questions we asked at the beginning of the series and contending with what counterinsurgency programs look like today.



https://dindeng.com/power-for-peasants-en/

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All music we used can be found in this playlist.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6imAcIOd2AjxZ3wgE1AA?si=61945fc24c124820

We’re going way back, to the first episode on critiquing colonial forestry practices, and witnessing how they were adapted to serve as a release valve for the socio-economic tensions building up in the Thai state, as a means of counterinsurgency. Or, we could even say enclosure as a means of counterinsurgency.

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All music we used can be found in this playlist. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6imAcIOd2AjxZ3wgE1AA?si=3f0ce435ee4f4e77

For this episode we're going to do something a little different. The past few have been very heavy on the critical history, with little in the way of anecdotes or personal experience. So, we thought talking about our time with the Maniq could act as a little break, while also intersecting with many of the currents we’ve been following throughout the series. That is to say, the life of illegally squatting forest dwellers, land reform, and of course, the more explicit militaristic aspects of counterinsurgency.




All music we used can be found in this playlist.



https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6imAcIOd2AjxZ3wgE1AA?si=3f0ce435ee4f4e77

In the last episode, we focused on the brutality of the Thai para-political, and para-military apparatuses, generally speaking, we can call that the stick. Today we will also be looking more deeply into the carrot of counterinsurgency. That is to say, the social services, state welfare and rural development infrastructure programs that were written by western academics to be dangled in one hand, while the barbarity of the stick was to be wielded in the other. 

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All music we used can be found in this playlist. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6imAcIOd2AjxZ3wgE1AA?si=3f0ce435ee4f4e77