Market, Fictitious Commodities, and the Rebellions in Lanna under the Governance of Siam
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Following Karl Polanyi’s analysis in his The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, this paper argues that the Phaya Phap rebellion in 1889 and the Ngiao rebellion in 1902 were the consequences of the movement pushed by the Siamese government to establish the self-regulating markets in Lanna. During this period, Siam implemented various policies in order to expedite the commodification process in forest areas, labor, and money referred to by Polanyi as fictitious commodities. As a result, markets that had been embeded as a part of the society were compelled to be disembedded market. This great transformation destroyed the fabric of society which had bonded people with all subjects around them. Both rebellions hence occurred as countermovements aiming at preserving and restoring the eroding social relations.
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