In Plain Sight

Tyrell Haberkorn is a fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change in the School of International, Political and Strategic Studies at Australian National University. She is the author of Revolution Interrupted: Farmers, Students, Law, and Violence in Northern Thailand.

Powerfully uncovers and documents many episodes of state intimidation and violence in postwar Thailand. Haberkorn deftly probes the nature and domestic actions of the Thai state and holds it accountable for its own history."" - Ben Kiernan, author of The Pol Pot Regime and Vit Nam""This stunning new book goes far beyond Thailand's heartrending experience of serial dictatorship without accountability and state formation grounded on impunity for crime. Haberkorn also compellingly engages Thailand's place in the rise of human rights movements. Her documentation of an 'injustice cascade' reorients the study of global history and politics."" - Samuel Moyn, author of Human Rights and the Uses of History""Required reading for anyone who wants to understand modern Thailand. Haberkorn reveals a state where political violence is normalized as it has established and maintained a narrow royalist and elitist regime."" - Kevin Hewison,editor of Political Change in Thailand

• Preface  Abbreviations Note on Language, Translation, and Dates Introduction: Impunity as State Formation1 The Repetition of Arbitrary Detention  2 The Birth of Human Rights and the Rise of Authoritarianism  3 The Burning of People and Villages  4 The Hidden Transcript of Amnesty5 Accounting for Human Rights at the End of the Cold War 6 Disappearance and the Jurisprudence of Impunity 7 Who Can Be Killed with Impunity and Who Cannot Be ImpugnedConclusion: History in a Time of Dictatorship  Appendix: A New, Partial Chronology of Thai History   Notes  Bibliography  Index