caa a22 4500 467898669 CHVBK 20180406152811.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10708-006-9028-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10708-006-9028-x Hesse-Swain Catherine Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford St., 6050, Mt Lawley, WA, Australia aut Programming beauty and the absence of Na Lao [Elektronische Daten] popular Thai TV and identity formation among youth in Northeast Thailand [Catherine Hesse-Swain] People living in the northeast of Thailand interchangeably label themselves and are labelled by others as Isan, Thai Isan, Lao Isan, Thai or Lao, depending on the ethnic, political, social or familial nuances of any given situation. I use the term Lao Isan to refer specifically to Isan people of Lao origin or ethnicity. Lao Isan are subject to complex and often competing notions of Isan-ness, Lao-ness and Thai-ness by insiders and outsiders. Using data derived from an ethnographic study of popular Thai television and Lao Isan youth (aged 17-25) living in the city of Khon Kaen and the town of Mahasarakham in northeast Thailand in 2002, this paper explores contemporary and co-existing interpretations of Isan identity or Khwampenisan among Lao Isan youth in relation to self-image and connections with national understandings of physical beauty as they are perpetuated in Thai-produced television programs. Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2006 Isan nationallicence Lao nationallicence Identity nationallicence Thailand nationallicence Thai television nationallicence Culture nationallicence Politics nationallicence Discourse nationallicence Gender nationallicence Development nationallicence GeoJournal Springer Netherlands 66/3(2006-07-01), 257-272 0343-2521 66:3<257 2006 66 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-9028-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-9028-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hesse-Swain Catherine Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford St., 6050, Mt Lawley, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Springer Netherlands 66/3(2006-07-01), 257-272 0343-2521 66:3<257 2006 66 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer