Conflict in Myanmar : : War, Politics, Religion / / ed. by Nick Cheesman, Nicholas Farrelly.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Aung, Su Mon Thazin,; Cathcart, Gregory S.,; Cheesman, Nick,; Crouch, Melissa,; Farrelly, Nicholas,; Hedström, Jenny,; Huang, Kai-Ping,; Khan, Helal Mohammed,; Laoutides, Costas,; Lidauer, Michael,; McCarthy, Gerard,; Schissler, Matt,; Sein, Chaw Chaw,; Tun, Than,; Ware, Anthony,; Wells, Tamas,; Welsh, Bridget,; Win, Chit,; Yue, Ricky,
• HerausgeberIn: Cheesman, Nick,; Farrelly, Nicholas,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (404 p.)

As Myanmar's military adjusts to life with its former opponents holding elected office, Conflict in Myanmar showcases innovative research by a rising generation of scholars, analysts and practitioners about the past five years of political transformation. Each of its seventeen chapters, from participants in the 2015 Myanmar Update conference held at the Australian National University, builds on theoretically informed, evidence-based research to grapple with significant questions about ongoing violence and political contention. The authors offer a variety of fresh views on the most intractable and controversial aspects of Myanmar's long-running civil wars, fractious politics and religious tensions. This latest volume in the Myanmar Update Series from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific continues and deepens a tradition of intense, critical engagement with political, economic and social questions that matter to both the inhabitants and neighbours of one of Southeast Asia's most complicated and fascinating countries.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of maps -- List of tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors and Editors -- I. Introduction -- 1. Myanmar's conflicted politics -- II. War and Order -- 2. The politics of policymaking in transitional government -- 3. Reexamining the centrality of ethnic identity to the Kachin conflict -- 4. A feminist political economy analysis of insecurity and violence in Kachin State -- 5. Pacifying the margins -- 6. Landmines as a form of community protection in eastern Myanmar -- III. Elections and After -- 7. The 2015 elections and conflict dynamics in Myanmar -- 8. Institutions in Myanmar's 2015 election -- 9. Ethnicity and Buddhist nationalism in the 2015 Rakhine State election results -- 10. The Hluttaw and conflicts in Myanmar -- 11. Legislating reform? -- IV. Us and Them -- 12. Making sense of reactions to communal violence in Myanmar -- 13. Public perceptions of a divided Myanmar -- 14. On Islamophobes and Holocaust deniers -- 15. Buddhist welfare and the limits of big 'P' politics in provincial Myanmar -- 16. Threat perceptions in the Myanmar-Bangladesh borderlands -- V. Conclusion -- 17. Myanmar and the promise of the political -- Abbreviations and Key Terms -- Index