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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Mahony, Sorcha,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785338595; 9783110998115
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785338595?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sorcha Mahony.

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.