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Searching for a Better Life : Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok / Sorcha Mahony.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785338588
  • 9781785338595
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • GC305.23
LOC classification:
  • HQ799.T52 B35 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781785338595

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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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