Siege of the spirits : community and polity in Bangkok /

Siege of the spirits : community and polity in Bangkok /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Herzfeld, Michael, 1947- author.
Imprint:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press Chicago, [2016]
Description:	xii, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	City planning. Eviction. Historic districts. Urban beautification. Urban renewal -- Citizen participation. 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. Pō̜m Mahākān (Bangkok, Thailand) Thailand -- Bangkok.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10807328

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ISBN:	9780226331584 (cloth : alk. paper) 022633158X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226331614 (pbk. : alk. paper) 022633161X (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780226331751 (e-book)
Notes:	"An ethnography of the community of Pom Mahakan in Bangkok who faces eviction in the name of urban renewal"--Publisher info. Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index.
Summary:	"An ethnography of the community of Pom Mahakan in Bangkok who faces eviction in the name of urban renewal"--Publisher info.

Table of 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.