Searching for a better life : growing up in the slums of Bangkok /

"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 fulfill one's dreams. At the sa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mahony, Sorcha (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Temas:
Youth > Thailand > Bangkok > Social conditions.
Poor > Thailand > Bangkok > Social conditions.
Slums > Thailand > Bangkok.
Jeunesse > Thaïlande > Bangkok > Conditions sociales.
Pauvres > Thaïlande > Bangkok > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Poor > Social conditions
Slums
Youth > Social conditions
Thailand > Bangkok
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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 fulfill 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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781785338595
1785338595

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