Bangkok: Place, Practice and Representation

ISBN-13: 9780415188548 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 376 str.

Marc Askew

Opis

Bangkok is one of Asia's most interesting, varied, controversial and challenging cities. It is a city of contradictions, both in its present and its past. This volume examines the development of the city from its earliest days as the seat of the Thai monarchy to its current position as an infamous contemporary metropolis. This in-depth study of each of the city's many facets adopts insights from the cultural history, urban studies and human geography. Marc Askew examines the city's variety, from inner-city slums to be rural-urban fringe and gives us a keen insight into the daily life if the city's inhabitants, be they middle-class suburbanites or women sex workers.

Spis treści

Introduction: Interpreting 'Bangkok' Part 1: Krung to Global City: The Dynamics of Transformation  1. Cosmology, Accumulation and the State 2. The Transformation of Krung Thep  3. The 1990s Part 2: Making Bangkok: Place, Practice and Representation  4. Banglamphu 5. Genealogy of the Slum 6. A Place in the Suburbs 7. Fields of Cultural Capital 8. Condo Land  9. Sex Workers in Bangkok 10. Contesting Urbanisms

O autorze

Marc Askew is Lecturer in Asian and International Studies as Victoria University, Melbourne