Conflict in Myanmar : : War, Politics, Religion /

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

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 pa...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (404 p.)
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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

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