Living with Risk: Precarity and Bangkok's Urban Poor

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Index 325 325 INDEX 30 baht scheme, 66, 161 access, problems of, 60, 149, 170, 189 to capital, 63–4 to infrastructure, 18–9 to investment funds and skills, 162, 281, 283 all-household survey, 83–4, 150, 163, 270n3 APEC, 3–4 Asian financial crisis of 1997, 1, 5, 17n10, 30, 33, 63, 65–6, 217 assets (of the poor), 33–4, 109n4, 180 asset income, 90 housing, 177–8, 281 Baan Mankong (“secure housing”) self-help housing, 67–8, 171–6, 179–80, 184 organisation and methods, 68, 185–7 Baan Ua-Athorn (“high-rise apartments”), 67–8, 171–4, 178–82, 186–7, 189, 190n5 Ban Mo community, 154 Bangkok, 8, 273n5 development patterns, 43–5 migration to, 73–4, 146–7, 244–5, 268, 276–7 multipolar society of, 10–1 Bangkok Community Handicraft Promotion Co-op, 66 Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), 3, 17n9, 41–2, 61 table 2-4, 97 Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR), 10n2, 41, 48–9 Bang Na, 78, 86, 96, 97n20, 100 bike taxi (samlor), 49–50, 70, 106, 108, 111, 205, 227, 244, 260, 262, 271–2, 287–8 bipolarisation, 10 BMA. See Bangkok Metropolitan Administration capability, 21, 24–5, 222–3, 288 capital-intensive industry, 17 Castells, Manuel, 14, 216 Chulalongkorn University, 52, 154, 276–8 cities and informal economy, 9–11 internal structure, 13–6 risk response process in, 18–9 See also urban spaces; slums City Planning Act, 170, 176 civil society, 66 class, methods of identifying, 20, 25–6 class mobility inter-generational, 267–73 stratification, 261–7 co-residing households, 141–5, 159–60, 164–6, 171–3, 212 CODI. See Community Organisations Development Institute 326 Index cohort, 22–3, 23n16 community, 5, 16, 22, 39, 281, 286–7 early community policies, 40 community development, 5, 31, 66–8, 69n37, 86, 184, 190, 288 Community Organisations Development Institute (CODI), 63, 66, 67–8, 69n37, 131, 171–2, 186, 187–9 compensation, disaster relief, 142, 159–60, 166 compressed change, 9–10 congested community, 41–2, 46, 97 cumulative investment 147, 149 daily life, 135 daily worker (occupational category), 107, 111, 234 De Soto, Hernando, 13, 32 debt, 68n36, 75, 90, 160, 161, 209, 214, 285 decent work (concept), 14, 32 Department of Community Development (of the BMA), 41 developing countries concept of “community” in, 5 labour in, 10, 12, 14, 30, 53 development economics, 12, 30, 37, 215, 257, 261, 279, 284 Din Daeng (district), 53n19, 154, 290 distribution, problems of, 14, 21, 222, 236 Distributive Village Communities (development), 41, 43 economic boom, 1980s, 17, 36, 221, 245 economic growth policy, 74, 266 economy of survival, 56n22, 216 education, 118, 197 barriers in, 118, 214, 262, 264, 274 household investment in, 21, 160–2, 239–40, 242, 271–3, 285 levels of, 47, 48, 120–1, 214, 222–3, 246, 249, 267, 269 Elder, Glen H. Jr., 22, 23. See also Giele, Janet Z.; life course analysis employed work, 126, 249, 264 employment, 13, 19, 66 experience, 27, 28–9 formal, 12, 48, 51, 249 informal, 12, 33, 48, 70. See also Rengaan Nokrabob irregular, 74 and location, 78, 281, 287 occupational mobility and, 52–3, 258, 274 opportunities, 28–9, 44–5, 52, 125, 281 structure, 56–8, 74 underemployment, 55–6 See also flexible employment; self-employment empowerment (concept), 31, 34 eviction, risk of, 43, 45n5, 95, 154–6, 177 and risk of fire, 18, 83, 89 increase in, 52–3 and policy, 53 exclusion, social, 31, 288 export industry, 29, 58, 227, 229, 251–2 impact on women, 248 factory workers, 217, 273 farmer (occupation), 67n33, 68n36, 205, 260, 270, 273 Index 327 female head of household, 159 impact of fire on, 192–216 female workers, 15, 29n24, 30, 51 case studies, 227–35, 237–47 household account and resource entitlement, 237–44 in informal economy, 218–26, 244–7 and injury, 124 life course of, 36, 219–20 occupational profiles, 99, 108–12, 118, 120–4, 222–6, 244–5 and social mobility, 261–73 feminisation of labour, 29 fire, 2 fire in inner-city community S, 35–6, 79, 83–5, 95 impact, 90, 96, 100, 101, 130–1, 148–52, 176, 177–8, 276–8, 279–86 on household welfare, 158–70 on incomes, 261–8 on occupations, 192–216, 269–71 and reconstruction, 178–82, 186–90 and relocation, 155 risk in cities, 18n11, 19, 272 Flat...