Searching for a Better Life

Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-858-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 457 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mahony, Sorcha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I

Chapter 1. Setting the Scene

Chapter 2. What Do We Know About Growing up in the Slums of Bangkok?

Chapter 3. Fieldwork

PART II

Chapter 4. Living the Teenage Life

Chapter 5. Doing the Right Thing

Chapter 6. Forging the Future

PART III

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mahony, Sorcha
Sorcha Mahony works as Senior Researcher at The Children’s Society, a charity that supports vulnerable children and young people in their search for a better life in England and Wales. She lives in London with her two children and volunteers with young refugees in her spare time.