Duncan McCargo

Duncan McCargo

Duncan McCargo (* 1963, Great Britain ) is a professor of Southeast Asian Policy at the University of Leeds . He is considered a Thailand expert.

Life

McCargo studied Southeast Asian, Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and has taught at Queen's University Belfast and Kobe Gakuin University in Japan. He lived in Thailand and Singapore for a few years ; he also taught in Cambodia and Japan.

In addition to his main focus, the political situation in Thailand, McCargo also published on political aspects of Indonesia and Vietnam. McCargo was critical of the Thaksinization of Thailand , but also the overthrow of Thaksin Shinawatra . In his view, the escalation of the conflict between Malay Muslims and the Thai central government in southern Thailand was a reaction to Thaksin's violent and arbitrary policies. Ultimately, this was one of the reasons for his fall, supported by the Privy Council. McCargo has written for the Daily Telegraph , Financial Times , Guardian , New York Times and Time Magazine .

Awards

His book Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand (2008) won the 2009 Bernard Schwartz Book Prize of the Asia Society .

Publications (selection)

• Chamlong Srimuang and the New Thai Politics. Hurst & Co., London 1997, ISBN 1-85065-288-0 .
• Politics and the Press in Thailand. Media machinations. Routledge, London and New York 2000, ISBN 0-415-23376-3
• Contemporary Japan. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York 2000, ISBN 0-312-22742-6 . In the Contemporary States and Societies series
• Media and Politics in Pacific Asia. Routledge Shorton, London and New York 2003, ISBN 0-415-23374-7
• Rethinking Vietnam. Routledge Shorton, London and New York 2004, ISBN 0-415-31621-9 (as editor). In the Rethinking Southeast Asia series
• The Thaksinization of Thailand. NIAS Press, Copenhagen 2005 ISBN 87-91114-46-2 (with Ukrist Pathmanand).
• Rethinking Thailand's Southern Violence. NUS Press, Singapore 2007, ISBN 978-9971-69-362-6 (as editor).
• Tearing Apart the Land. Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand. Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY and London 2008, ISBN 978-0-8014-7499-6 .
• Naruemon Thabchumpon and Duncan McCargo: Urbanized Villagers in the 2010 Thai Redshirt Protests . In: Asian Survey . tape 51 , no. 6 (November / December). University of California Press, California December 2011, pp. 993-1018 , doi : 10.1525 / as.2011.51.6.993 (English, analysis of interviews with 400 demonstrators and 57 organizers during the riots in Bangkok 2010 ).

Web links

• Professor Duncan McCargo, Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds
• Video of Duncan McCargo's discussion of Tearing Apart the Land - Asia Society, New York 11/6/2009
• The Asia Society of December 1, 2009: Blood Flows in Thailand's Deep South
• Far Eastern Economic Review November 2, 2007: Rethinking Thailand's Southern Violence , Review
• Far Eastern Economic Review of November 7, 2008: Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand , Review
• The international artist database: McCargo, Duncan

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Duncan McCargo. Retrieved September 7, 2017 (American English).