Excerpts from The King of Bangkok

Authors

  • Claudio Sopranzetti Central European University
  • Sara Fabbri Linus Magazine
  • Chiara Natalucci Independent Researcher

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/ce.v3i1.6649

Abstract

This is an excerpt from The King of Bangkok. Originally appearing in Chapter 3, the section we present is a flashback that follows the book’s protagonist, Nok, on his journey to the island of Koh Pha-Ngan in the Gulf of Thailand. Nok has secured work on a construction site there during the height of the country’s economic boom. The section demonstrates how opportunity and precarity, excitement and devastation are fundamental forces animating and shaping the experiences of migrant workers like Nok.

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Published

2020-12-09

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2020): Commoning Ethnography

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Copyright (c) 2020 Claudio Sopranzetti

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