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Siege of the spirits : community and polity in Bangkok / Michael Herzfeld.
Penn Museum Library HT178.T52 B36 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herzfeld, Michael, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eviction.
- City dwellers.
- Civil rights.
- Urban renewal.
- Political participation.
- City planning.
- Urban beautification.
- Historic districts.
- Pō̜m Mahākān (Bangkok, Thailand).
- Historic districts--Thailand--Bangkok.
- Urban beautification--Thailand--Bangkok.
- City planning--Thailand--Bangkok.
- Urban renewal--Thailand--Bangkok--Citizen participation.
- City dwellers--Civil rights--Thailand--Bangkok.
- Eviction--Thailand--Bangkok.
- Thailand--Bangkok.
- Thailand.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 267 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press Chicago, 2016.
- Summary:
- "An ethnography of the community of Pom Mahakan in Bangkok who faces eviction in the name of urban renewal"--Publisher info.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Claiming culture
- Community, city, and polity
- The state and the city
- Law, courtesy, and the tactics of temporality
- Currents and countercurrents
- Time, sound, and rhythm
- The polity in miniature
- Building the future of the past.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "An ethnography of the community of Pom Mahakan in Bangkok who faces eviction in the name of urban renewal"--Publisher info.
- ISBN:
- 9780226331584
- 022633158X
- 9780226331614
- 022633161X
- OCLC:
- 911180255
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