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04280aam a2200481 i 4500 001 439E5C844EAA11EDAB62559A42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221018010048 008 201114s2021 hiua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2020051756 020 $a 082488826X 020 $a 9780824888268 020 $a 0824888170 020 $a 9780824888176 020 $a 0824888154 020 $a 9780824888152 020 $a 0824884590 020 $a 9780824884598 035 $a (OCoLC)1181848251 040 $a HU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d DLC $d OCLCO $d XFF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-th--- 050 00 $a HT165.53.T5 $b E45 2021 082 00 $a 307.1/21609593 $2 23 100 1 $a Elinoff, Eli, $e author. 245 10 $a Citizen designs : $b city-making and democracy in northeastern Thailand / $c Eli Elinoff. 264 1 $a Honolulu : $b University of Hawaii Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xv, 292 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prologue: Disagreement in a Time of hapiness -- Designing the Political -- Infrastructures, Nation, and Citizen -- From Crisis to Community -- Citizen Designs -- Paper Communities -- Unity and Its Discontents -- Building Politics -- City of Disagreement -- Political Life in the Despotic City -- Happiness Otherwise -- Epilogue: Legacies of Politics -- Notes -- References -- Index. 520 $a "What does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass urbanization and volatile political transformation? Citizen Designs: City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand addresses this question by exploring the ways that democratic urban planning projects intersect with emerging political aspirations among squatters living in the northeastern Thai city of Khon Kaen. Based on ethnographic and historical research conducted since 2007, Citizen Designs describes how residents of Khon Kaen's railway squatter communities used Thailand's experiment in participatory urban planning as a means of reimagining their citizenship, remaking their communities, and acting upon their aspirations for political equality and the good life. It also shows how the Thai state used participatory planning and design to manage both situated political claims and emerging politics. Through ethnographic analysis of contentious collaborations between residents, urban activists, state planners, participatory architects, and city officials, Eli Elinoff's analysis reveals how the Khon Kaen's railway settlements became sites of contestation over political inclusion and the meaning and value of democracy as a political form in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Elinoff examines how as residents embraced politics to enact their equality, they inspired new debates about what good citizenship might mean and how democracy might look and feel. The disagreements over citizenship, like those Elinoff describes in Khon Kaen, reflect the kinds of aspirations for political equality that have been fundamental to Thailand's political transformation over the last two decades, which has seen new political actors asserting themselves at the ballot box and in the streets alongside the retrenchment of military authoritarianism. Citizen Designs offers new conceptual and empirical insights into the lived effects of Thailand's political volatility and into the current moment of democratic ambivalence, mass urbanization, and authoritarian resurgence"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a City planning $z Thailand, Northeastern $x Citizen participation. 650 0 $a City planning $x Political aspects $z Thailand, Northeastern. 650 0 $a Squatters $x Political activity $z Thailand, Northeastern. 650 0 $a Democracy $z Thailand, Northeastern. 650 7 $a City planning $x Citizen participation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862187 650 7 $a City planning $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862241 650 7 $a Democracy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00890077 650 7 $a Squatters $x Political activity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01131125 651 7 $a Northeastern Thailand. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01692614 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117032159.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=439E5C844EAA11EDAB62559A42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search