Owners of the map: Mobility and mobilization among motorcycle taxi drivers in Bangkok

City and Society

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 120-143

  Sopranzetti, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mobility; Political protest; Thailand; Time space compression

Indexed keywords

CYCLE TRANSPORT; POLITICAL CONFLICT; POLITICAL RELATIONS; ROAD TRANSPORT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TAXI TRANSPORT;

BANGKOK; CENTRAL REGION [THAILAND]; KRUNG THEP MAHANAKHON; THAILAND;

EID: 84898013788     PISSN: 08930465     EISSN: 1548744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ciso.12030     Document Type: Article

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