Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand write by Anjalee Cohen. This book was released on 2020-06-02. Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. Drawing on over 15 years of ethnographic research, the book explores the impact of rapid urbanisation and modernisation on contemporary Thai youth, focusing on conspicuous youth subcultures, drug use (especially methamphetamine use), and violent youth gangs. Anjalee Cohen shows how young Thai people construct a specific youth identity through consumerism and symbolic boundaries – in particular through enduring rural/urban distinctions. The suggestion is that the formation of subcultures and “deviant” youth practices, such as drug use and violence, are not necessarily forms of resistance against the dominant culture, nor a pathological response to dramatic social change, as typically understood in academic and public discourse. Rather, Cohen argues that such practices are attempts to “fit in and stick out” in an anonymous urban environment. This volume is relevant to scholars in Thai Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Urban Studies, and Development Studies, particularly those with an interest in youth, drugs, and gangs.
Youth Culture and Indentity
Youth Culture and Indentity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Youth Culture and Indentity write by Anjalee P. Cohen. This book was released on 2007. Youth Culture and Indentity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Tracks and Traces
Tracks and Traces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tracks and Traces write by Philip Hirsch. This book was released on 2010. Tracks and Traces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume traces the threads that tie together an understanding of Thailand as a dynamic and rapidly changing society, through an examination of the work of one major scholar of the country, Andrew Turton. Turton's anthropological studies of Thailand cover a wide spectrum from politics and economy to ritual and culture, and have been crucial in shaping evolving understandings of Thai society. In this collection, ten leading specialists on Thailand from a variety of disciplines critically consider aspects of Turton's work in relation to the changing nature of different aspects of Thai society. The book tracks the links between past and present scholarship, examines the contextuality of scholarship in its times, and sheds light on the current situation in Thailand.
The Cultural Economy of Protest in Post-Socialist European Union
The Cultural Economy of Protest in Post-Socialist European Union - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cultural Economy of Protest in Post-Socialist European Union write by Juraj Buzalka. This book was released on 2020-09-22. The Cultural Economy of Protest in Post-Socialist European Union available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on Slovakia and East Central Europe, this book examines the cultural economy of protest and considers how the origins of political movements – progressive and reactionary – derive from resilient agrarian features. It draws attention to how the legacy of rural socialist modernization influences contemporary politics and to the ‘village’ version of fascism developing in the region. The chapters look at the interplay of post-peasant economic and political habits and representations as a result of state-socialism and with regard to the European project, as viewed through an ethnographic lens. Juraj Buzalka describes the bulk of Slovak citizens as post-socialist Europeans with a connection to the countryside who feel that this is where real power in society should be defined and based. He also observes the politicians who are skillfully mobilizing post-peasants while exploiting the political-economic context of the European Union. This volume will be relevant to scholars with an interest in European society and politics, particularly protest and populism, from disciplines including anthropology, sociology, political science and history.
Women, Motherhood and Living with HIV/AIDS
Women, Motherhood and Living with HIV/AIDS - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Motherhood and Living with HIV/AIDS write by Pranee Liamputtong. This book was released on 2013-03-12. Women, Motherhood and Living with HIV/AIDS available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There are about 34 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS. Half are women. There has been a dramatic global increase in the rates of women living with HIV/AIDS. Among young women, especially in developing countries, infection rates are rapidly increasing. Many of these women are also mothers with young infants. When a woman is labeled as having HIV, she is treated with suspicion and her morality is being questioned. Previous research has suggested that women living with HIV/AIDS can be affected by delay in diagnosis, inferior access to health care services, internalized stigma and a poor utilization of health services. This makes it extremely difficult for women to take care of their own health needs. Women are also reluctant to disclose their HIV-positive status as they fear this may result in physical feelings of shame, social ostracism, violence, or expulsion from home. Women living with HIV/AIDS who are also mothers carry a particularly heavy burden of being HIV-infected. This unique book attempts to put together results from empirical research and focuses on issues relevant to women, motherhood and living with HIV/AIDS which have occurred to individual women in different parts of the globe. The book comprises chapters written by researchers who carry out their projects in different parts of the world, and each chapter contains empirical information based on real life situations. This can be used as evidence for health care providers to implement socially and culturally appropriate services to assist individuals and groups who are living with HIV/AIDS in many societies. The book is of interest to scholars and students in the domains of anthropology, sociology, social work, nursing, public health & medicine and health professionals who have a specific interest in issues concerning women who are mothers and living with HIV/AIDS from cross-cultural perspective.
