DinDeng

The Kongsi - Chinese Secret Societies and The Kongsi Republics of Western Borneo. We're joined by Yvonne Tan of Jentayu to talk about them. Pretty cool no?

https://pusatsejarahrakyat.org/events/psr-webinar-narrating-the-chinese-kongsi-unraveling-the-moral-economy-in-overseas-chinese-communities-during-colonial-expansion/

We met Thaksin. For real. We bring out friend Ton on to talk about it, also Ton went to jail recently so we chatted about that too.

This one is for the real Thai deep politics pilled heads only to be honest. If you're not that, maybe give it a skip sorry. We talk about the Thai left and the Thai Left. I know right.

https://www.samudra.dindeng.com/the-big-left/

He's back. We're back. He's been busy, we've been busy. We talk about village medicine.

https://www.samudra.dindeng.com/post-colonial-medicine/

Forest fires, the call of the mountain, more flak and the future.

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

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

Hotspot readings: 22/04/2024

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jee2Qqb_gB09U0D87jf-HhU0JCUMjNwJ/view?usp=sharing

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

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All music we used can be found in this playlist.

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.

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

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All music we used can be found in this playlist.

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.

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