Ghosts of the New City: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Ruins of Progress in Chiang Mai Duch Natasha Pairaudeau has produced a

Natasha Pairaudeau has produced a path-breaking book

Review by The Guardian (Thursday 11 September 2014)

placing them within an historical framework

He received his PhD (2004) and his Habilitation (2008) from the École Pratique des Hautes Études

it makes an important scholarly contribution by synthesizing and interpreting an abundance of Thai spatial

Ghosts of the New City: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Ruins of Progress in Chiang Mai Duch Natasha Pairaudeau has produced aChiang Mai (literally, new city) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the Thai baht, crushing dreams of a renaissance of Northern prosperity. Years later, the ruins of the excesses of the 1990s still stain the skyline. In Ghosts of the New City, Andrew Alan Johnson shows how the trauma of the crash, brought back vividly by the political crisis of 2006, haunts efforts to remake