สถานภาพความรู้เกี่ยวกับการลดความเลื่อมล้ำคนจนเมืองเขตเศรษฐกิจพิเศษ

State of knowledge about reducing inequality for Urban Poor in Special Economic Zone

Abstract

Abstracts

The concept of special economic zone development in Thailand has been driven by policy development towards determining border town areas. In fact, the aim of development is to reduce economic inequality in border areas. Practically, it was found that such ideas created a new form of inequality, especially for poor people in the border city. This study aims to review the related former research framework in order to reconceptualize and reframe the status of knowledge in terms of inequality and urban poor, particularly in the special economic cities. The objectives of this research are 3 items which are (1) collecting and synthesizing knowledge related to inequality in special economic cities (2) searching for research questions from former research gaps (3) developing the knowledge question based on the participation of various groups. The research methods which are (1) reviewing relevant literature based on 3 main issues; the definition of the meaning of the poor according to the context of urban development, the meaning of the inequality for the urban poor, and evaluation of special economic zone. (2) Interactive planning (Sapu, 2010) that integrates 4 communicative action models; social learning, deliberative planning, collaborative planning, and consensus-building. For this article, the method focuses on two first methods (social learning and deliberative planning). The results of the study found that the inequality of urban poor in the special economic zone has been a structure that suppressed based on four capitals, namely social and cultural capital, natural capital, political capital, and economic capital.

Keywords: inequality, urban poor, special economic zones, urban development, capital