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Eli Elinoff, "Citizen Designs: City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)

New Books in Anthropology

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The Importance of Disagreement in Democracy

In the face of creeping and expanding authoritarianism, the indelible sense of our capacities to disagree is kind of a fundamental part of whatever our political futures are. I'm not sure if that's a sense of hope or hope or if that’s a hopeful conclusion. It's not my, it's not certainly not my intention to be rosy with it, but it does offer, i think, a sense of possibility even when things seem to be quite foreclosed.

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