Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand: Memory, Place and Power by King, Ross

Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand: Memory, Place and Power (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789814722278)

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Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand: Memory, Place and Power by King, Ross

Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand: Memory, Place and Power

$32.00
Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand: Memory, Place and Power by King, Ross

Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand: Memory, Place and Power

$32.00
Format: Paperback
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Using Thailand as a case study, Ross King examines the role of place in the formation of identity through memory. Employing the idea of French historian Pierre Nora that because we no longer live in environments of memory--places where the past is still vividly alive--we compensate by attaching ourselves to sites of memory, King explores whether Thailand offers an alternative vision, a place where modernity and heritage coexist. He looks closely at the myths of ancient Thai cities, the remaining royal palaces, historical monuments, small towns and villages, and the proliferating slums of Bangkok in order to create a unique and nuanced perspective of contemporary Thailand and its many ideas of Thai identity.


Author: Ross King
ISBN-10: 9814722278
ISBN-13: 9789814722278
Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2017
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
By Ross King
By Ross King
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Ross King is a professorial fellow in the faculty of architecture building and planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Reading Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya: Negotiating Urban Space in Malaysia, also published by the National University of Singapore Press.

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