ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how mass mobilization—by the pro-democracy Red and conservative Yellow factions—shaped both the contours of Thai politics and the exercise of state authority between 2008 and 2014. Through the lens of the emergency powers invoked in response, the chapter argues that both factions were ready to resort to institutional innovations introduced by the defunct 1997 constitution to resist repressive state authority. How, therefore, should political activism against state repression be understood in Thailand?
