ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relationships between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and urban space in Bangkok. In particular, it focuses on counterfeit goods, as they are the focus of IPR enforcement and are crucial to imagining Bangkok as a city where counterfeit goods can be sourced, manufactured and purchased – a 'city of transgressions'. Recent years has seen overt attempts to enforce IPRs in particular sites in Bangkok. Yet in other sites the sale of counterfeit goods and violations of IPRs continue. The chapter focuses on the legal aspects of intellectual property (IP) and more on the spatial contestations around peddling goods, particularly counterfeit goods in Bangkok. Situated within urban/human geography and using the methodological tenets of 'walking ethnography', it focuses on a research on selected sites where IPRs are being enforced, ignored and challenged. In doing so we make four interlinked arguments.
