Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok’s Margins Buddhist Art forcing the people to evacuate

forcing the people to evacuate the cities and move to the countryside

and the edited volume with Charles F

Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière is an anthropologist at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris and former director of its Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CASE)

Citizens and local communities are often the best guardians of their own heritage

the country is still coming to terms with the destruction wrought in the decade when the Khmer Rouge won and held power and

Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok’s Margins Buddhist Art forcing the people to evacuateGiuseppe Bolotta A splendidly original, multi situated ethnography of marginalized children in Bangkok, the first of its kind. Explores the intersection between Thai politics, urban poverty, religion, and global humanitarianism from the perspective of slum children in Bangkok. Demonstrates that childhood is best understood in Thailand as a political category. Offers startling new insights into how ideas of parenthood and infantilization shape Thai