Abstract

This paper concerns spatial divisions, lines of power, imagination and resistance around dominant cultural constructions of the centre polity located in Bangkok, which I refer to here as a city-nation in the context of state. This paper concerns the dominance of power and mediations that are working to redefine the relationship between the centre and the periphery, which is exacerbated in the temporary appropriation of city-space by protesting subaltern, mostly peasant, Red Shirts over the past four years. I use Tim Ingold’s recent thinking about lines or “ways of life enmeshed in a networked world of lines and connectors” to explore new social trajectories of change in Thailand.