Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok's Margins

by Giuseppe Bolotta

Book Overview

What does childhood mean in contemporary Thailand? What constitutes childhood in a slum? How does childhood figure in the construction of national citizenships? Rich in ethnographic detail, this fascinating, engaging and illuminating study explores the daily lives, constraints, and social worlds of children born in the slums of Bangkok, and their ways of defining themselves in relation to a range of governing technologies, state and non-state actors,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8776943011
• ISBN13: 9788776943011
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
• Length: 252 Pages