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The Making of a 'Modern' Thailand (with Mai Nardone)

The Making of a 'Modern' Thailand (with Mai Nardone)

Update: 2023-06-29
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Mai Nardone talks about his first book, the story collection Welcome Me to the Kingdom, which spans four decades and traces urbanization of the late 1980s, the financial crisis of 1997, and the current landscape in Thailand. He talks about his studies in economics and how this perspective shaped the focus on labor and the many industries (tourism, sex), racialization, travel, religious communities in Thailand, and writing against the global imagination of the country.

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The Making of a 'Modern' Thailand (with Mai Nardone)

The Making of a 'Modern' Thailand (with Mai Nardone)

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