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By Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu · Posted
As Fraser frames it, the question between exploitation and expropriation is of vulnerability, and the controls over that vulnerability. She positions the State as essential arbitrator of vulnerability status. In the case of Muay Thai's traditional power dynamics, fighters are "dependents" (sometimes literally positioned as de facto children of a kaimuay household, adoptively so), yet are not exposed as "defenseless" before the market, at least in the sense that it is the (imagined) moral character and obligation of Houses to care for their fighters, and to protect them from external predation (though, clearly they do not always fulfill this obligation). Fighters are "protected" in the social form, but also locked into social hierarchies (which many will view as unjust...or, alternately romanticize as formal "respect"). -
By Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu · Posted
A bit from the rough draft of my piece on the Capitalism Resistant nature of Thailand's Muay Thai: -
By Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu · Posted
When Fraser approaches the question of Capitalism and Racism she cuts a dividing line at the perspective of Capitalism in terms of exchange and optimization (occluding, she argues, the constitutive social and institutional elements which support it). It strikes me that something of this leveling of Exchange also occurs in my own perspective of the ritualistic origins of Siam/Thai Muay Thai, the ring providing the exchange where a hierarchy rite is performed (through the production of the "loser" - sacrificed victim), and a formal method of folding in the Other, through the production of loss. This mirrors the Exchange logic view of Capitalism, in that the two fighters when fighting are engaging a kind of equivalency (which in the West is expressed in terms of regulated Fairness - less so in Thailand). In Exchange, there are Winners and Losers. But, in Siam/Thai Muay Thai all of the embodied layers of social investment are actually activated by the fighters, and symbolized by the fighters, finding their regulative/generative effect in the present gambling market, which shapes the fight.
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By Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu · Posted
I'm sorry I don't really know. Sylvie is in touch with a collector and this person is where she buys hers, but there are not multiple copies available. Maybe someone else would know of a larger source. -
Where can I find some physical old Muay Thai magazines? I am located in Bangkok. Thanks -
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