Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand: Fitting in and Sticking Out

ISBN-13: 9781032236100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 196 str.

Anjalee Cohen

Opis

Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand examines how young people in urban Chiang Mai construct an identity at the intersection of global capitalism, state ideologies and local culture.It explores the impact of rapid urbanisation and modernisation on contemporary Thai youth.

Spis treści

1. Introduction
2. Chiang Mai: Urbanization and Community
3. Youth Agency and Identity in Chiang Mai
4. Dek Inter and the Other: Youth subcultures in Chiang Mai City
5. Moral Panics and Symbolic Scapegoats: Thailand’s Social Order Campaign and the "War on Drugs"
6. Youth and Ya Ba use in Chiang Mai
7. Youth Gangs: Masculinity, Violence and Local Culture
8. Conclusion

O autorze

Anjalee Cohen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney, Australia.