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@article{ART002521542},
author={Victor T. King and J. Rotheray},
title={Negotiations in Space and Time: Changing Gender Relations in Thai Tourist-oriented Encounters},
journal={SUVANNABHUMI},
issn={2092-738X},
year={2019},
volume={11},
number={2},
pages={25-57},
doi={10.22801/svn.2019.11.2.25}

TY - JOUR
AU - Victor T. King
AU - J. Rotheray
TI - Negotiations in Space and Time: Changing Gender Relations in Thai Tourist-oriented Encounters
JO - SUVANNABHUMI
PY - 2019
VL - 11
IS - 2
PB - Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies
SP - 25
EP - 57
SN - 2092-738X
AB - The paper addresses Erik Cohen’s pioneering work on tourism in Thailand, specifically his publications on the relations between Thai women and foreign (farang) men in tourist-oriented encounters. Of sociological-anthropological interest is his conceptualization of these relations as “open-ended prostitution as a skilful game of luck” based on his study of a Bangkok soi (lane) in 1981-1984, and his exploration of Thai culture in terms of ambiguity and contradiction. On the basis of recent ethnographic research in the northern Thai tourist hub of Chiang Mai and wide-ranging observations on tourism development in Thailand, we examine continuity and change in these male-female engagements since Cohen’s research, especially in the context of the increasing availability of such electronic agencies as social media, messaging, video chat, and internet dating. Whereas Cohen’s concept of ambiguity and illusion has tended to disappear from physical spaces, it seems to have resurfaced in virtual space. The complexities of host-guest relations, and particularly the interactions both within the variegated category of “guests” themselves and then between their “hostesses” are explored in terms of sites of tourism-oriented encounters in both physical and virtual space so as to deconstruct these oppositional categories which have been formative in studies of tourism.
KW - Hostesses;guests;ambiguity;negotiations;Thailand
DO - 10.22801/svn.2019.11.2.25
ER -

Victor T. King and J. Rotheray. (2019). Negotiations in Space and Time: Changing Gender Relations in Thai Tourist-oriented Encounters. SUVANNABHUMI, 11(2), 25-57.

Victor T. King and J. Rotheray. 2019, "Negotiations in Space and Time: Changing Gender Relations in Thai Tourist-oriented Encounters", SUVANNABHUMI, vol.11, no.2 pp.25-57. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2019.11.2.25

Victor T. King, J. Rotheray "Negotiations in Space and Time: Changing Gender Relations in Thai Tourist-oriented Encounters" SUVANNABHUMI 11.2 pp.25-57 (2019) : 25.

Victor T. King, J. Rotheray. Negotiations in Space and Time: Changing Gender Relations in Thai Tourist-oriented Encounters. 2019; 11(2), 25-57. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2019.11.2.25

Victor T. King and J. Rotheray. "Negotiations in Space and Time: Changing Gender Relations in Thai Tourist-oriented Encounters" SUVANNABHUMI 11, no.2 (2019) : 25-57.doi: 10.22801/svn.2019.11.2.25

Victor T. King; J. Rotheray. Negotiations in Space and Time: Changing Gender Relations in Thai Tourist-oriented Encounters. SUVANNABHUMI, 11(2), 25-57. doi: 10.22801/svn.2019.11.2.25

Victor T. King; J. Rotheray. Negotiations in Space and Time: Changing Gender Relations in Thai Tourist-oriented Encounters. SUVANNABHUMI. 2019; 11(2) 25-57. doi: 10.22801/svn.2019.11.2.25

Victor T. King, J. Rotheray. Negotiations in Space and Time: Changing Gender Relations in Thai Tourist-oriented Encounters. 2019; 11(2), 25-57. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2019.11.2.25

Victor T. King and J. Rotheray. "Negotiations in Space and Time: Changing Gender Relations in Thai Tourist-oriented Encounters" SUVANNABHUMI 11, no.2 (2019) : 25-57.doi: 10.22801/svn.2019.11.2.25