Weapons of the Urban Weak: Democracy and Resistance to Eviction in Bangkok Slum CommunitiesSojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia

Abstract: This paper takes a careful look at resistance to eviction in Bangkok slum communities. When an unstable parliamentary regime replaced military authoritarian rule in 1973, 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.