Karaoke Fascism : : Burma and the Politics of Fear / / Monique Skidmore.
To come to Burma, one of the few places where despotism still dominates, is to take both a physical and an emotional journey and, like most Burmese, to become caught up in the daily management of fear. Based on Monique Skidmore's experiences living in the capital city of Rangoon, Karaoke Fascis...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Ethnography of Political Violence
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 22 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Map
- Chapter 1. Rangoon: End of Strife
- Chapter 2. Bombs, Barricades, and the Urban Battlefield
- Chapter 3. Darker Than Midnight: Fear, Vulnerability, and Terror-Making
- Chapter 4. Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Cigar
- Chapter 5. The Veneer of Modernity
- Chapter 6. The Veneer of Conformity
- Chapter 7. The Tension of Absurdity
- Chapter 8. Fragments of Misery: The People of the New Fields
- Chapter 9. The Forest of Time
- Chapter 10. Going to Sleep with Karaoke Culture
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments