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Owners of the Map - Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility, and Politics in Bangkok (Hardcover)
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Owners of the Map - Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility, and Politics in Bangkok (Hardcover)
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On May 19, 2010, the Royal Thai Army deployed tanks, snipers, and
war weapons to disperse the thousands of Red Shirts protesters who
had taken over the commercial center of Bangkok to demand
democratic elections and an end to inequality. Key to this
mobilization were motorcycle taxi drivers, who slowed down,
filtered, and severed mobility in the area, claiming a prominent
role in national politics and ownership over the city and
challenging state hegemony. Four years later, on May 20, 2014, the
same army general who directed the dispersal staged a military
coup, unopposed by protesters. How could state power have been so
fragile and open to challenge in 2010 and yet so seemingly sturdy
only four years later? How could protesters who had once fearlessly
resisted military attacks now remain silent? Owners of the Map
provides answers to these questions-central to contemporary
political mobilizations around the globe-through an ethnographic
study of motorcycle taxi drivers in Bangkok. Claudio Sopranzetti
explores the unresolved tensions in the drivers' everyday lives,
their migration trajectories, consumer desires, and political
demands amidst the restructuring of Thai capitalism after the 1997
economic crisis. Reconstructing the entanglements between their
everyday mobility and political mobilization, Sopranzetti reveals
mobility not just as a strength of contemporary capitalism but also
as one of its fragile spots, always prone to disruption by the
people who sustain its channels but remain excluded from their
benefits. In so doing, Owners of the Map advances an analysis of
power that focuses not on the sturdiness of hegemony or the
ubiquity of everyday resistance but on its potential fragility as
well as the work needed for its maintenance.
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