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C 17, Cooper Hall |
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(585) 395-5705 |
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pesara@brockport.edu |
Issues of gender inequality and social difference; social practices of marriage and intimacy; displacement and refugee concerns; processes of migration and identity negotiations; economic development and globalization; Asia and its diasporas
Currently working on a video documentary entitled, "Living By and By: A Bangkok street vendor's life" which offers a peek into Thailand's urban foodscape. Life for the average laborer in Bangkok can be difficult. Many rent single rooms without kitchen facilities. To meet their everyday nutritional and material needs, working class residents turn to the street, to local food vendors and sidewalk merchants. The documentary explores the mundane complexities and benefits of being a small-time Bangkok entrepreneur based in an urban slum.
Past projects involved examining gender role changes and shifting meanings of marriage for couples residing in a Bangkok “slum” community. The dilemmas of “working mothers” and the constraints of local occupational and marriage markets foster tensions among couples, who seek to be progressive and more “equal”. These changes are analyzed within a larger context of economic development, continuing internal and transnational migration flows, and dramatic social change in Thailand.
2009
Imagining the Western Husband: Thai women’s desires for matrimony, status and beauty. Ethnos, 74:3:403-426
2004
Women Will Keep the Household: The Mediation of Work and Family by Female Labor Migrants in Bangkok. Journal of Critical Asian Studies 36:2:199-216.
All are welcome! Bring something to share. Thursday, Oct. 27th from 4:45-6pm in Cooper, rm. C-3.
Dr. Maryann McCabe will be speaking on Tuesday, Nov. 8th at 4:45pm. See flyers for rm. confirmation.
Black History Month Speaker
Win a Night on Ice
9:30 pm - 11 pm
Red Cross Blood Drive
10 am - 4 pm
CSA Newlyweds
9 pm - 11 pm
CSA Success VS Sell-Out
9 pm - 11 pm
Pilapa Esara