Marginality, Suffering, and Community: The Politics of Collective Experience and Empowerment in Thailand

Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 31-75

  Chuengsatiansup, Komatra ^a  

^a MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Thailand)

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