Journal - Week 11

              According to the context, State defined as the political status of an organized people in an enclosed territorial unit or by historical appearance state is a specific entity of a people. The word political mostly uses in the negative way meanwhile it generally involves with state as same as state involve in politic.

           The phenomenon of the political can be explained through the term that we called friend and enemy grouping regardless of the aspects in morality, aesthetics, and economics. The distinction of friend and enemy represents the ultimate level of intensity of a union or separation, of an association and disassociation. In this sense, the enemy no need to be morally evil by itself but if it think in an opposite direction basically that is the enemy. Meanwhile, in liberalists' point of view, it transforms the way of thinking of enemy to competitor instead in the economic domain by competing with each other for the same goal. Generally, in our political world, states will negotiate for connection among one another and become alliance because of the state survival, or state interest or try to complete and balance power with more powerful state. When state has political conflict with other state will lead to tension and conflict later on. When nothing can be solve, the use of power and confrontation in military force will occur which create war. This can cause tremendous lost to human kind, environmental issue, lower in economic level of a certain state and etc.

Journal - Week 10

        The word 'Globalization' becomes popularize more and more during our century. Globalization makes our world simply connect with one another through the improvement in technology; communication and transportation which made we feel smaller and closer to each other. Since, the transportation simpler than in the past, the movement of people across border back and forth make a huge change to the society.

          In this context, it has mentioned about the the international finance and the association with globalization as the Canadian company named Bre-X. It is the company of Walsh who was gone bankrupt in the past but he has found a good opportunity for new investment while he visited in forest  of Kalimantan, Indian. He said he found gold so he boast that there is a high possibility to have gold mining in India. When the expectation reach the fevered pitch, there was nothing there, not showing any appearance of gold at all. Then reason that he did that is because relying on speculation make people belives that there was gold there, increase the demand of people invest, rise of stock market and make profit. As a result where there is nothing, the speculation failed. The reason why Tsing call the Bre-X saga a drama because he dramatize the  in order to to make situation as an appeal investment and lead this situation in franchise cronyism. Furthermore, because the existence of internet made the flow of information easily to people in different ares. Globalization facilitate people in many ways but on the hand it also caused many problems to our nations.

Journal - Week 9

       I have read the article “Siam Mapped; Chapter Two, The coming of a new geography”. According to King Mongkut’s interest toward Geography, he tried to modernize the idea of geography to become what we called ‘Modern geography’ through Western science way which has the successful accomplishment where he can prove that our globe is spherical instead of flat shaped and he got devoted to become the Father of Thai Science. Afterward, the way we understand map not only indicated where we are located on the globe but it also defined the term nation and boundary line as it stated in the article; ‘A nation can be imagined without a word or other symbol or color on the map, but this is impossible if boundary lines, the symbol which forms the entity of a map of a nation, are excluded. Boundary lines are indispensable for a map of a nation to exist or to put it in another way; a map of a nation presupposes the existence of boundary lines.’ Which can be related to the film ‘Avenge But One of My Two Eyes’ by Mograbi.

            This is my analysis from article with the film. The film was about the separation between two nations; Palestine and Israel. It also showed how the full armed Israel treat Palestinians unfairly which lead to the conflict among them even worst. Basically, the conflict caused from nationalism; the word nationalism can be defined in many terms but in this case, it refers to the attitude that the members of a nation have when they care about their identity as members of that nation. Both of nations; Palestine and Israel, feel secure under their own territory because of socio-cultural like common culture, network of relations with people in society; family or friends or etc., and the feel of sense of belonging. If either one of the people from each side across each other boundary line in this case is where the gate was located in the movie, they will not feel that they belong there as the example Massada which is the scene where teacher told the group of students to closed their eyes and asked if they were surrounded by the Romans what would they do either surrender, fight, pray or kill themselves. Majority of them said that they will fight and for those who said that they will commit suicide with pride to represented that they royal to Israel than the others. Additionally, if they surrender and live on enemies land, they would not feel that they belong there because the network of relation are not existed. Furthermore, Identity and nationality also part of nationalism, it cannot only classified through only paper document but a person will created their own identity from the place where they create the most of emotional attachment with certain society/nation. According to the article, King Mongkut also represented the proud identity of being Siam is not inferior from any other Western nation.