“Construction of National Artist”: Reflections on the Political Expressions of National Artists in the Field of Literature under the Thai Bureaucratic Polity

Abstract

This article aims to study the characteristics of building power relations between national artists in the field of literature and ideological state. This is a descriptive research study using documentary research methods. The conclusions for building power relations in 3 forms are: (1) the coherence of power relations between "characteristics of government" and "announcing honoring national artists in the field of literature" (2) building a relationship by building a model of a national artist in a conservative way (3) building a power relationship by the government brought artists into political positions or used as a mechanism to create benefits for the bureaucratic polity.

               National artists in the field of literature have been one of the processes in creating the ideological of the Thai state that adheres to conservative ideas with a government that has a form of government in the form of a Bureaucratic Polity is an important variable in the control of freedom and ideological. Even with the dynamic political dynamics as a result, the power of the people's sectors gradually weakened the power of the bureaucracy and giving an opportunity for artists with diverse ideologies to have the opportunity to become national artists but getting the role of an artist that was directed by the state power. Freedom of expression therefore became an important condition that artists had to pay for working under the ideological of the bureaucratic polity in which the state pays benefits in the form of salaries and welfare until becoming a complete government official.