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Citizen designs : city-making and democracy in northeastern Thailand by Elinoff, Eli, author is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Citizen designs : city-making and democracy in northeastern Thailand about?
What does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass urbanization and volatile political transformation? Citizen Designs: City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand addresses this question by exploring the ways that democratic urban planning projects intersect with emerging political aspirations among squatters living in the northeastern Thai city of Khon Kaen. Based on ethnographic and historical research conducted since 2007, Citizen Designs describes how residents of Khon Kaen's railway squatter communities used Thailand's experiment in participatory urban planning as a means of reimagining their citizenship, remaking their communities, and acting upon their aspirations for political equality and the good life. It also shows how the Thai state used participatory planning and design to manage both situated political claims and emerging politics. Through ethnographic analysis of contentious collaborations between residents, urban activists, state planners, participatory architects, and city officials, Eli Elinoff's analysis reveals how the Khon Kaen's railway settlements became sites of contestation over political inclusion and the me
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Elinoff, Eli, author
- Publisher
- University of Hawaiʻi Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780824888176
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, History, Social_sciences