Searching for a Better Life

Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Urban, Anthropology
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Author: Sorcha Mahony ISBN: 9781785338595
Publisher: Berghahn Books Publication: May 22, 2018
Imprint: Berghahn Books Language: English
Author: Sorcha Mahony
ISBN: 9781785338595
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication: May 22, 2018
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Language: English

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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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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