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04223aam a2200529 i 4500 001 85D649EA580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 170426s2018 cauab b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017020435 020 $a 0520288491 020 $a 9780520288492 020 $a 0520288505 020 $a 9780520288508 035 $a (OCoLC)975847546 040 $a CU-S/DLC $b eng $e rda $c CUS $d DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-th--- 050 00 $a HD8039.T162 $b T57 2018 082 00 $a 388.3/47509593 $2 23 100 1 $a Sopranzetti, Claudio, $e author. 245 10 $a Owners of the map : $b motorcycle taxi drivers, mobility, and politics in Bangkok / $c Claudio Sopranzetti. 264 1 $a Oakland, California : $b University of California Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xiv, 314 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The unsettled layers of Bangkok -- The dangers of mobility -- The unsolved tensions of migration -- The paradox of freedom -- Fighting over the state -- Transforming desires into demands -- Unraveling the Thai capital -- Combining powers. 520 $a "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."--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Motorcyclists $z Bangkok. $z Bangkok. 650 0 $a Taxicab drivers $z Bangkok. $z Bangkok. 651 0 $a Thailand $x Politics and government $y 1988- 651 0 $a Thailand $x Economic conditions $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Demonstrations $z Thailand $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Political violence $z Bangkok. $z Bangkok. 650 7 $a Demonstrations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00890222 650 7 $a Economic history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901974 650 7 $a Motorcyclists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01028138 650 7 $a Political violence. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069902 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Taxicab drivers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01144026 651 7 $a Thailand. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205310 651 7 $a Thailand $z Bangkok. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205495 648 7 $a Since 1988 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Sopranzetti, Claudio. $t Owners of the map. $d Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] $z 9780520963399 $w (DLC) 2017022860 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217015059.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=85D649EA580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search