Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok’s Margins Buddhist Art and the edited volume with

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Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière is an anthropologist at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris and former director of its Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CASE)

by Peter Janssen (Jakarta Globe

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Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok’s Margins Buddhist Art and the edited volume withGiuseppe Bolotta A splendidly original, multi situated ethnography of marginalized children in Bangkok, the first of its kind. Explores the intersection between Thai politics, urban poverty, religion, and global humanitarianism from the perspective of slum children in Bangkok. Demonstrates that childhood is best understood in Thailand as a political category. Offers startling new insights into how ideas of parenthood and infantilization shape Thai