Bangkok's Two Centers
Status, Space, and Consumption in a Millennial Southeast Asian City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2280677 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sophorntavy Vorng |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | s1 |
| Pages | 66-85 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | City & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0893-0465 • E-ISSN: 1548-744X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1548-744x.2011.01056.x |
| OpenAlex | W1937077631 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 27 |
Despite Bangkok's current incarnation as a globalized city of shopping malls and skyscrapers, indigenous concepts of power and space emphasizing center and hierarchy continue to pervade status differentiation in everyday social life. This is evident in tensions in the spatial-symbolic relations between Bangkok's politico-religious "old city" in Rattanakosin and the newer downtown consumption hub which emerged around the locales of Siam and Ratchaprasong, and highlights how urban and social transformations engendered by neoliberal market forces and embodied in downtown Bangkok's modern, consumerist milieu have mapped onto and exacerbated cultural logics of hierarchy drawn from much older notions of urban power and privilege in Southeast Asia. This produced modes of inscribing socio-economic inequality into space and a striking culture of status display uniquely shaped by the intersection of modern capitalism and Bangkok's distinctive culture and history of indigenous urbanism and suggests that understandings of space, power, and consumption in today's cities may benefit from a less Western-centric and more regionally sensitive conceptual framework
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Circuits of power
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(En)countering counterfeits in Bangkok
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Owners of the Map
Creative mass. Consumption, creativity and innovation on Bangkok's fashion markets
The City in Time and Space
City of Walls
World Conqueror and World Renouncer
Lifestyle Shopping
Glocalization
Conceptions of State and Kingship in Southeast Asia
Beyond “Culture”
Gated communities in Indonesia
Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”
Introduction
Securing the 'Civilised' Enclaves
Small Independent Merchants and Transnational Retail Encounters on Main Street
Indigenous Urbanism
Domestic Service in Thailand
The Thai Regime of Images
The Law of the Primate City
When the Global Meets the Local at the Mall
Putting the Mandala in its Place
Paragons of Lifestyle
Economic Globalization, Crisis and the Emergence of Chinese Business Communities in Southeast Asia
Making Territorial Claims
Making Streets
Vietnam's Civilizing Process and the Retreat from the Street
Making up People in Papua
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,92 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |