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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781785338595
  • 1785338595
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Searching for a better life.DDC classification:
  • 305.23509593 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ799.T52
Online resources:
Contents:
Setting the scene -- What do we know about growing up in urban poverty in Thailand? -- Fieldwork -- Living the teenage life -- Doing the right thing -- Forging the future.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Setting the scene -- What do we know about growing up in urban poverty in Thailand? -- Fieldwork -- Living the teenage life -- Doing the right thing -- Forging the future.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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