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Punks, Monks and Politics - Authenticity in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia (Paperback)
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Punks, Monks and Politics - Authenticity in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia (Paperback)
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Authenticity is much sought after; being described as inauthentic
is an insult or an embarrassment. Being authentic suggests that a
given behaviour or performance is reflective of a 'trueness' or
'genuineness' to one's identity. From a social science perspective
there is sometimes scepticism expressed about the historical
faithfulness of purported behaviours - such as when something is
referred to as an 'invented' tradition. However, what can be
overlooked in such criticisms is an array of sociological and
existential dynamics that are at play when authenticity is striven
for. Likewise able to be overlooked is where the location of that
authenticity is ostensibly founded; sometimes the trueness of the
behaviour is located in local traditions that reach back into time
immemorial, sometimes in a universal human and shared sameness, and
sometimes with regard to a global phenomenon. Punks, Monks and
Politics explores the idea of authenticity as enacted in Thailand,
Indonesia and Malaysia. The collective contributions reveal the
sometimes contradictory ways in which the dynamics of authenticity
- its pursuit, its deployment, its politics - play out in very
different contexts. Whether authenticity inheres in the local or
the global, amongst the majority or within a subculture, on the
outside of or within people, or in the past or the present,
authenticity is nevertheless valued.
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