Giuseppe Bolotta, Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok’s Margins. Copenhagen, NIAS Press, 2021, 252 p.

Belittled Citizens examines the varying cultural constructions of childhood emergent in institutions in Bangkok which care for and seek to educate dek salam (slum children), and in the broader context of the religious, political and moral foundation of Thai citizenship. It also reckons with the ways...

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Main Author: Larson, Erica M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:French
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Published: Ed. de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales 2022
In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 200, Pages: 178-179
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Summary:Belittled Citizens examines the varying cultural constructions of childhood emergent in institutions in Bangkok which care for and seek to educate dek salam (slum children), and in the broader context of the religious, political and moral foundation of Thai citizenship. It also reckons with the ways in which dek salam internalize, reject and appropriate these conceptions in their navigation of everyday life and the formation of their sense of self. In his focus on childhood - typically consid...
ISSN:1777-5825
Contains:Enthalten in: Archives de sciences sociales des religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.4000/assr.68333