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Author COHEN, ANJALEE

Title YOUTH CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN NORTHERN THAILAND fitting in and sticking out
Published [Place of publication not identified] CRC Press, 2020

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Series Routledge Studies in Anthropology Ser
Routledge Studies in Anthropology Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- 2.1 Map of Chiang Mai -- 4.1 Dek Saep -- 6.1 Number of Ya Ba Pills Seized in Thailand, 1998-2005 -- 7.1 A Motorbike Race at the 700-Year Stadium in Chiang Mai -- 7.2 Chiang Mai Male Youth Gathering at a Motorbike Drag Race at the 700-Year Stadium -- List of Tables -- 2.1 Growth in White-Collar Occupations, 1980-2017 (Chiang Mai Province) -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Transliteration of Thai -- 1 Introduction -- Prologue -- Northern Thai Youth in Transition
Youth Agency -- Researching a Hidden Population -- Chapter Summary -- 2 Chiang Mai: Urbanisation and Community -- The Changing Rural Economy -- A Radial Polity -- Provincial Capitalism -- The Lure of the City: Education and Employment -- The Social Impact of Development -- The Thai Community Revisited -- 3 Youth Agency and Identity in Chiang Mai -- Symbolic Boundaries -- Childhood Developmental Model -- Modernity, Consumption, and Agency -- Global and Local Youth Culture in Chiang Mai -- Subcultural Capital -- 4 Dek Inter and the Other: Youth Subcultures in Chiang Mai city
The "Rural-Urban Divide" -- Youth Subcultures in Chiang Mai -- Dek Saep as the Other -- Dek Saep Versus Dek Inter -- Dek Saep and Mimicry -- Youth Cultural Hierarchy -- Drugs and Distinction -- 5 Moral Panic and Symbolic Scapegoats: Thailand's Social Order Campaign and the "War on Drugs" -- Drug Symbolism and the Global War on Drugs -- Drug War Symbolism in Thailand: The Enemy Within and the Enemy Without -- The Social Order Campaign -- The Thai "War on Drugs" -- Moral Panic and Symbolic Scapegoats -- State Rituals and Symbolic Politics -- 6 Youth and Ya Ba Use in Chiang Mai
Methamphetamine Production and Distribution in Thailand -- Methamphetamine Consumption and Trafficking in Thailand -- Ya Ba, Pleasure and Modernity -- Methamphetamine as a Multi-Purpose Drug -- Ya Ba Social Sanctions and Rituals -- 7 Youth Gangs: Masculinity, Violence, and Local Culture -- The NDR Gang -- Masculinity, Invulnerability, and Local Culture -- Gender: Gangs and Girls -- 8 Conclusion -- Index
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ISBN 9781351127721
1351127721