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While the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies has officially ceased operations, the research published by NIAS Press will continue to be made available around the world through the new arrangements with NUS Press.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCustomers and bookshops in Mainland Southeast Asia may continue to place orders for NIAS Press titles from \u003ca title=\"Link to Silkworm's NIAS Press listings\" href=\"https:\/\/silkwormbooks.com\/collections\/nias-distribution\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSilkworm Books\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are working with the series editors to determine which of the NIAS Press book series will continue under the NUS Press imprint. Welcome to the NIAS Press list!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTitles which show as \"unavailable\" below are unavailable in Singapore, and should be available (or shortly will be available) in other territories. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-meeting-of-masks","title":"A Meeting of Masks: Status, Power and Hierarchy in Bangkok","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eby Sophorntavy Vorng\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fresh understanding of the ongoing Thai political conflict is offered by this highly accessible ethnographic study, which explores the connections between status, space, and social life in Bangkok. The author argues that the notion of the 'urban–rural divide' popularly used to describe the conflict obscures a more complex reality in which city and countryside are linked by reciprocal relations within both urban and national systems of status and class. This is clearly discernible in the nature of everyday interclass relations in Bangkok, which have been exacerbated by diminishment and marginalization of upcountry Thais by the urban middle classes. It is an incendiary dynamic that has been exploited to tremendous effect in the current political power struggle. The author further explores how middle-class culture and identity are drawn in large part from their understandings of status practices of elites. Structural constraints and the societal privileging of wealth and connections are constant challenges to middle-class aspirations for upward mobility. This disenchantment has been channelled into a churning politics of resentment with demonstrably explosive potential. 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