Myanmar Transformed? : : People, Places and Politics / / ed. by Justine Chambers, Gerard McCarthy, Nicholas Farrelly, Chit Win.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Aung, Marlar,; Belton, Ben,; Chambers, Justine,; Farrelly, Nicholas,; Gabusi, Giuseppe,; Griffiths, Mike,; Hillman, Ben,; Latt, Lwin Cho,; Mangshang, Yaw Bawm,; Maung, Pyae Phyo,; McCarthy, Gerard,; Medail, Cecile,; Myint, Khin Sanda,; Myoe, Maung Aung,; Pursch, Samuel,; Schroeder, Tim,; Thura, Si,; Walton, Matthew,; Wells, Tamas,; Win, Kyaw Zeyar,; Win, Myat Thida,; Woodhouse, Andrea,; Woolcock, Michael,; Zhang, Xiaobo,; Zurstrassen, Matthew,
• HerausgeberIn: Chambers, Justine,; Farrelly, Nicholas,; McCarthy, Gerard,; Win, Chit,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (333 p.)

The triumph of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy at the 2015 election was supposed to mark the consolidation of a reformist trajectory for Myanmar society. What has followed has not proved so straightforward. This book takes stock of the mutations, continuities and fractures at the heart of today's political and economic transformations. We ask: What has changed under a democratically elected government? Where are the obstacles to reform? And is there scope to foster a more prosperous and inclusive Myanmar? With the peace process faltering, over 1 million people displaced by recent violence, and ongoing army dominance in key areas of decision-making, the chapters in this volume identify areas of possible reform within the constraints of Myanmar's hybrid civil-military governance arrangements. This latest volume in the Myanmar Update Series from the Australian National University continues a long tradition of intense, critical engagement with political, economic and social questions in one of Southeast Asia's most complicated countries. At a time of great uncertainty and anxiety, the 13 chapters of Myanmar Transformed? offer new and alternative ways to understand Myanmar and its people.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors and Editors -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Myanmar Transformed? -- Part II. People -- 2. Documenting Social and Economic Transformation in Myanmar's Rural Communities -- 3. Social Protection in Myanmar: A Key Mechanism for Political Legitimacy? -- 4. Health Service Delivery and Peacebuilding in Southeast Myanmar -- Part III. Places -- 5. Myanmar's Rural Revolution: Mechanization and Structural Transformation -- 6. Change and Continuity: Capacity, Coordination and Natural Resources in Myanmar's Periphery -- 7. Advocacy Organizations and Special Economic Zones in Myanmar -- 8. Explaining Naypyitaw under the National League for Democracy -- Part IV. Politics -- 9. Partnership in Politics: The Tatmadaw and the NLD in Myanmar since 2016 -- 10. From Ceasefire to Dialogue: The Problem of "All-Inclusiveness" in Myanmar's Stalled Peace Process -- 11. Securitization of the Rohingya in Myanmar -- 12. Forming an Inclusive National Identity in Myanmar: Voices of Mon People -- Part V. Epilogue -- 13. Reflections on Myanmar Under the NLD so far -- Abbreviations and Key Terms -- Index