Weapons of the Urban Weak
Democracy and Resistance to Eviction in Bangkok Slum Communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6086889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Ockey (0000-0001-5722-4724, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-25 |
| Publication date | 1997-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0217-9520 • E-ISSN: 1793-2858 |
| Publisher | ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1355/sj12-1a |
| OpenAlex | W2067440128 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 8 |
This paper takes a careful look at resistance to eviction in Bangkok slum communities. When an unstable parliamentary regime replaced military authoritarian rule in 1 973, new tactics of resistance to eviction emerged. These innovative tactics were developed to take advantage of the new opportunities provided by the parliamentary structure, in the process of identifying new opportunities and developing new tactics for use in a parliamentary system, the urban poor have learned democratic values
Democracy · Eviction · Geography · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Slum · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demography · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Water Governance and Infrastructure
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2022 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |