TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mahony,Sorcha
TI  - Searching for a Better Life: Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok 
SN  - 9781785338588
AV  - HQ799.T52 B35 2018
U1  - GC305.23 
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Poor
KW  - Thailand
KW  - Bangkok
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Slums
KW  - Youth
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - antidote to neoliberal ideas
KW  - bangkok
KW  - break through structures of constraint
KW  - ethnographic account
KW  - fulfill ones dreams
KW  - growing up in bangkok slums
KW  - personal responsibility
KW  - rapidly developing and globalizing economy
KW  - reflects on issue of agency
KW  - young people
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Part I --; 1 Setting the Scene --; 2 What Do We Know about Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok? --; 3 Fieldwork --; Part II --; 4 Living the Teenage Life --; 5 Doing the Right Thing --; 6 Forging the Future --; Part III --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Life in Bangkok for young people is marked by profound, interlocking changes and transitions. This book offers an ethnographic account of growing up in the city’s slums, struggling to get by in a rapidly developing and globalizing economy and trying to fulfil one’s dreams. At the same time, it reflects on the issue of agency, exploring its negative potential when exercised by young people living under severe structural constraint. It offers an antidote to neoliberal ideas around personal responsibility, and the assumed potential for individuals to break through structures of constraint in any sustained way
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785338595?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785338595
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785338595/original
ER  -