Viewing Rural-Urban Blurring through Political Conflict and the Biomedia Body of the Thai People

Abstract

Thai rural dwellers has closed traditional gaps in socioeco-nomic and political participation for change between urban and rural life. Rural and urban space blurring faces challenging questions on rural concepts within rural studies, including how rural concept provide useful conceptual instruments for studies in the Thai context. This paper presents different ways of studying, comprising social structure, social context, interaction, and social movement for methods about rural space. Tuning in to rurality means focusing on the body within the concept of biomedia body, in which the body is constructed by discourse. This amounts to an analytical discourse of the sufficiency economy. Rural and urban linkages have sufficiency outlined a discourse in the aesthetic body, distributing functions to the Thai people’s corpus that theelite have assigned. Thai rurality consists of materials and development progress still classified solely as urban as it retain social inequality by preserving bodily genres.