Research & Article

In  order  to  understand  why  the  concept  has  so  little  appeal  and  how  its  implications nonetheless suffuse current urban politics in Bangkok, I propose in this brief exploration to address some key issues both from the intimate perspective of ethnographic research and through the telescopic lens of trans-national comparison. Through   this   typically   anthropological   convergence   of   apparently   opposed   viewpoints, I hope to tease out some traces of the key dynamics so long obscured by the myopic grandiloquence of formal historiography.