Quinn, Rapin2009-06-012011-01-042009-06-012011-01-04b19874777http://hdl.handle.net/1885/48019This study examines people-centred Thai NGOs trying to help peasants empower themselves in order to compete better in conflicts over land, water, forest, and capital, during the 1970s to 1990s. The study investigates how the NGOs contested asymmetric power relations among government officials, private entrepreneurs and ordinary people while helping raise the people’s confidence in their own power to negotiate their demands with other actors.¶ The thesis argues that the NGOs are able to play an interventionist role when a number of key factors coexist. ...enThe Australian National UniversityNGOs, everyday politics, peasants, transformation, intervention, Thailand, rural Thai society, social movement, Alaine Touraine, actor-agency relations, social meaning and action synthesis, time-space correspondence, cultural geography, community culture199710.25911/5d7a2b61d8961