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"The massacre on October 6, 1976, in Bangkok was brutal and violent, its savagery unprecedented in modern Thai history. Four decades later there has been no investigation into the atrocity; information remains limited, the truth unknown. There has been no collective coming to te…
Cosmopolitan Bangkok blends evocative street markets with glitzy modern malls, Buddhist philosophy with animism, and traditional reserve with lashings of fun. This guide is a fully-overhauled edition by our resident expert author. Stunning photography that brings this effervesce…
"What happens when three hundred alleged squatters go head-to-head with an enormous city government looking to develop the place where they live? As anthropologist Michael Herzfeld shows in this book, the answer can be surprising. He tells the story of Pom Mahakan, a tiny enclav…
"An ethnography of the community of Pom Mahakan in Bangkok who faces eviction in the name of urban renewal"--Publisher info
This book analyses the roles of the market and media -- especially cinema and the Internet -- in these transformations, and considers the ambiguous consequences that the growing commodification and mediatisation of queer lives have had for LGBT rights in Thailand. A key finding …
The first years of the 21st century have marked a transition moment for all of Thailand's LGBT cultures. This book analyses the roles of the market and media in these transformations, and considers the ambiguous consequences that the growing commodification of queer lives have h…
"In the 1920s and 1930s, the port cities of Southeast Asia were staging grounds for diverse groups of ordinary citizens to experiment with modernity, as a rising Japan and the growth of American capitalism challenged the predominance of European empires after the First World War…
