Ghosts of the New City: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Ruins of Progress in Chiang Mai Duch Anderson is Professor of Research

Anderson is Professor of Research in the Department of Anthropology at Brown University

”—Supavud Saicheua

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

placing them within an historical framework

the Mekong region has been facing complex pressures and challenges in water governance driven by a range of economic integration efforts and relationships motivated by national self-interest

Ghosts of the New City: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Ruins of Progress in Chiang Mai Duch Anderson is Professor of ResearchChiang 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