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Searching for a Better Life - Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,072

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Searching for a Better Life - Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok (Hardcover): Sorcha Mahony

Searching for a Better Life - Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok (Hardcover)

Sorcha Mahony

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Loot Price R3,072 Discovery Miles 30 720 | Repayment Terms: R288 pm x 12*

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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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Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2018
Authors:	Sorcha Mahony
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	206
ISBN-13:	978-1-78533-858-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities Promotions
LSN:	1-78533-858-7
Barcode:	9781785338588