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04685aam a2200469 i 4500 001 91C15436664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221117010035 008 210319t20212021dk ab b 001 0 eng c 020 $a 9788776943011 020 $a 8776943011 020 $a 8776943003 020 $a 9788776943004 035 $a (OCoLC)1242932333 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d OCLCO $d PUL $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d GUA $d AAA $d OCLCO $d OHX $d PAU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-th--- 050 4 $a HQ792.T5 $b B656 2021 082 04 $a 304.608995 $2 23 100 1 $a Bolotta, Giuseppe, $e author. 245 10 $a Belittled citizens : $b the cultural politics of childhood on Bangkok's margins / $c Giuseppe Bolotta. 264 1 $a Copenhagen : $b NiAS Press, $c [2021] 300 $a ix, 250 pages : $b illustrations (some color), maps ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Nordic Institute of Asian Studies monograph series ; $v no. 154 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-221) and index. 520 8 $a What does childhood mean in contemporary Thailand? What constitutes childhood in a slum? How does childhood figure in the construction of national citizenships? Rich in ethnographic detail, this fascinating, engaging and illuminating study explores the daily lives, constraints, and social worlds of children born in the slums of Bangkok, and their ways of defining themselves in relation to a range of governing technologies, state and non-state actors, and broad cultural politics. It does so by interrogating the layered meanings of "childhood" in slums, schools, Buddhist temples, Christian NGOs, state and international aid organisations, as well as social media. 0Giuseppe Bolotta's analysis employs "childhood" as a prism to make sense of broader socio-political, religious, and economic transformations in Thai society. By examining the competition between different Thai and foreign actors to define and control the world-view formed by these children, he demonstrates how Bangkok slums are political arenas within which local, national and global social forces and interests converge and clash. At the same time, this analysis highlights the roles played by Bangkok's poor children in processes of social change, considering how young people's efforts to make sense of themselves in an era of authoritarian rule reflect the broader tensions facing the urban poor in this complex moment of Thai history. 0The book shows how "marginal childhoods" and the "cultural technologies of childhood" - schools, religious agencies, NGOs - reflect both endemic inequalities in Thailand's larger socio-political structure and global transformations in transnational childhood governance. Marginalized young people's increasingly plural cultural references create space for both existential fragmentation and creative self-reformulation, which provide socially disadvantaged citizens with unexpected religious, economic, and political resources to challenge Thai society's generational structures of power. Through these arguments, Belittled Citizens demonstrates that "childhood" is best understood in Thailand as a political category that has been fundamental to the military state's rule and, potentially, its undoing. It also shows more broadly how attention to children, typically excluded from national politics and therefore invisible in most political analyses, has important potential for producing startling insights into contemporary Southeast Asian societies. 505 00 $g p. 153. $t Beyond the 'Thai Self' $g 1 $t The Good Thai Child $g p. 21 -- $g 2 $t On Karma and Childhood $g p. 48 -- $g 3 $t God's Beloved Children $g p. 68 -- $g 4 $t Slum Children as Victims $g p. 94 -- $g Part 2 $t Children's Cultures and Selves -- $g 5 $t Children's Multiple Selves $g p. 121 -- $g 6 $t Beyond the 'Thai Self' $g p. 153. 650 0 $a Poor children $z Bangkok $z Bangkok $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Slums $x Social aspects $z Bangkok. $z Bangkok. 651 0 $a Thailand $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 650 6 $a Enfants pauvres $z Bangkok $z Bangkok $x Conditions sociales. 651 6 $a ThaiÂlande $x Conditions sociales $y 21e siecle. 650 7 $a Poor children $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01071201 650 7 $a Slums $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01121201 650 7 $a Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 651 7 $a Thailand. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205310 651 7 $a Thailand $z Bangkok. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205495 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 830 0 $a Nordic Institute of Asian Studies monograph series ; $v no. 154. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117021611.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=91C15436664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search