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9780415188531

Bangkok: Place, Practice and Representation

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415188531

  • ISBN10:

    0415188539

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-08-02
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Bangkok is one of Asia's most interesting, varied, controversial and challenging cities. This unique book examines the development of the city from its earliest days as the seat of the Thai monarchy to its current position as the most infamous contemporary metropolis in Southeast Asia. Adopting insights from cultural history, urban studies and human geography, the book is a powerful and multi-faceted account of the real Bangkok. The author examines the city's variety from the inner-city slums to the rural-urban fringe and gives us a keen insight into the daily life of the city's inhabitants, be they middle-class suburbanites or sex workers. Engagingly written and rich in detail, this is the definitive account of the Thai capital.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
ix
List of plates
x
List of tables
xii
Acknowledgements xiii
Note on transliteration and Thai names xvii
Introduction: interpreting Bangkok: place, practice and representation 1(12)
PART I Krung to global city: the dynamics of transformation 13(94)
Cosmology, accumulation and the state: the urbanism of early Bangkok
15(33)
The transformation of Krung Thep
48(38)
The 1990s - a global city in a global age
86(21)
PART II Making Bangkok: studies in place, practice and representation 107(199)
Banglamphu: change and persistence in the yan
109(30)
Genealogy of the slum: pragmatism, politics and locality
139(31)
A place in the suburbs: making a neighbourhood in the middle-class housing estate
170(24)
Fields of cultural capital: land, livelihood and landscape transformation on the rural-urban fringe
194(32)
Condo land: global forms and local ecologies
226(25)
Sex workers in Bangkok: refashioning female identities in the global pleasure space
251(33)
Contesting urbanisms: constructing the past and remaking the present
284(22)
Notes 306(9)
Bibliography 315(33)
Index 348

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