Thousand Cuts

Janjira Sombatpoonsiri is a research fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies in Hamburg and an assistant professor at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

"An empirically rich and eye-opening exploration about the nature of repression and its consequences in the modern age. Sombatpoonsiri also turns the tables and asks activists how their lived experience of digital repression has impacted them." - Steven Feldstein, author of The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology Is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance

• List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. Thailand as a Middle-of-the-Road Case of Digital RepressionChapter 2. From the Cold War to the Digital Era: Historical Trajectory of Repression and Elite Threat PerceptionsChapter 3. The 2014–2019 Junta: A Holistic Ecosystem of Digital RepressionChapter 4. Youth-Led Protests in 2020–2021 as a Threat to the Political EstablishmentChapter 5. Smearing Dissent: Coordinated Online Attacks on 2020–2021 ActivistsChapter 6. Judicial Harassment of Dissidents and How Smear Campaigns Justify ItChapter 7. Digital Surveillance and Its Symbiotic Relationship with Smear Campaigns and Judicial HarassmentChapter 8. Death by a Thousand Cuts: Multifaceted Impacts of Digital Repression ConclusionAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Social Media AnalysisNotesBibliographyIndex