Myanmar's Mountain and Maritime Borderscapes : : Local Practices, Boundary-Making and Figured Worlds /

Myanmar's Mountain and Maritime Borderscapes : : Local Practices, Boundary-Making and Figured Worlds / / ed. by Su-Ann Oh.

This edited volume adds to the literature on Myanmar and its borders by drawing attention to the significance of geography, history, politics and society in the construction of the border regions and the country. First, it alerts us to the fact that the border regions are situated in the mountainous...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Bjornberg, Anders,
Boutry, Maxime,
Dean, Karin,
Farrelly, Nicholas,
Farzana, Kazi Fahmida,
Grundy-Warr, Carl,
Horstmann, Alexander,
Jirattikorn, Amporn,
Jun, Chin Wei,
Kojima, Takahiro,
Ma, Cunzhao,
Ma, Jianxiong,
Mersan, Alexandra de,
Myoe, Maung Aung,
Oh, Su-Ann,
Singh, N. William,
Son, Bianca,
Tangseefa, Decha,
HerausgeberIn:
Oh, Su-Ann,
Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (420 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Language, Terminology and Geographical Names
  • Contributors
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • Section I. Overview of Myanmar's Mountain and Maritime Borderscapes
  • 2. Electoral Sovereignty in Myanmar's Borderlands
  • 3. The Maritime Frontier of Myanmar: Challenges in the Early 21st Century
  • Section II. Territorial Claims and Imagined Boundaries
  • 4. Burman Territories and Borders in the Making of a Myanmar Nation State
  • 5. Ritual and the Other in Rakhine Spirit Cults
  • 6. Rohingya Territoriality in Myanmar and Bangladesh: Humanitarian Crisis and National Disordering
  • Section III. Social Organization and Border Economies
  • 7. The Culture and Landscape of the Humanitarian Economy among the Karen (Kayin) in the Borderland of Southeast Myanmar and Northwest Thailand
  • 8. Navigating Learning, Employment and Economies in the Mae Sot-Myawaddy Borderland
  • Section IV. Mobile Practices and Moving Borders
  • 9. The Spatiality and Borderless-ness of Contentious Politics: Kachin Mobilities as Capability
  • 10. The Mule Caravans as Cross-Border Networks: Local Bands and their Stretch on the Frontier between Yunnan and Burma
  • 11. "I Want to Stay Forever in You"
  • 12. Life along the Naf Border: Identity Politics of the Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
  • 13. Home of the Housekeeper: Will Shan Migrants Return after a Decade of Migration?
  • 14. Moving On: Spaces of Uncertain Freedom and Engagement in the Kayah-Mae Hong Son Borderland
  • Section VI. Institutionalized Identity and Border Practices
  • 15. The Chin State-Mizoram Border: Institutionalized Xenophobia for State Control
  • 16. Tăi Buddhist Practices on the China-Myanmar Border
  • Index

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