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02331aam a2200397 i 4500 001 9CF6B52AE96D11E8978F920F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20181116010210 008 171107t20182018nyu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017053715 020 $a 1785338587 020 $a 9781785338588 035 $a (OCoLC)1007756594 040 $a NIC/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-th--- 050 00 $a HQ799.T52 $b B35 2018 082 00 $a 305.23509593 $2 23 100 1 $a Mahony, Sorcha, $e author. 245 10 $a Searching for a better life : $b growing up in the slums of Bangkok / $c Sorcha Mahony. 264 1 $a New York : $b Berghahn, $c 2018. 300 $a xiv, 191 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Setting the scene -- What do we know about growing up in urban poverty in Thailand? -- Fieldwork -- Living the teenage life -- Doing the right thing -- Forging the future. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Youth $z Bangkok $z Bangkok $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Poor $z Bangkok $z Bangkok $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Slums $z Bangkok. $z Bangkok. 650 7 $a Poor $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01071151 650 7 $a Slums. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01121194 650 7 $a Youth $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01183536 651 7 $a Thailand $z Bangkok. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205495 776 08 $i Online version: $a Mahony, Sorcha. $t Searching for a better life. $d New York : Berghahn Books, 2018 $z 9781785338595 $w (DLC) 2017056444 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214014442.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9CF6B52AE96D11E8978F920F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search