CHAPTER ONE
HISTORY AND ITS MARGINS
A few months into my dissertation research, in March 2004, I visited the
library at Ratchaphat Institute, the four-year college that had previously been the
Chiang Mai Teachers’ College. Teachers’ College students were very active in the
student and farmer movements between 1973 and 1976 and the radical writer
Samruam Singh was on the faculty during the same period.1
With this in mind, I hoped
that the library might hold the papers of the student organizations or periodicals from
the 1970s