Living with Myanmar / / ed. by Jonathan Liljeblad, Justine Chambers, Charlotte Galloway.

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• MitwirkendeR: Breen, Michael G.,; Brett, Peggy,; Carroll, Mary,; Chambers, Justine,; Egreteau, Renaud,; Ei Cho, Nyein,; Fujimura, Hitomi,; Galloway, Charlotte,; Gregory, Rick,; He, Baogang,; Jefferson, Andrew M.,; Khin Mra, Khin,; Kyaw Thein, Aung,; Lall, Marie,; Liljeblad, Jonathan,; Livingstone, Deborah,; Miedema, Stephanie,; Min Oo, Zaw,; Missingham, Roxanne,; Nyein, Yin,; Okamoto, Ikuko,; Thiri Kyaw, Aye,; Thiri Swe, Nyein,; Turnell, Sean,; Warr, Peter,
• HerausgeberIn: Chambers, Justine,; Galloway, Charlotte,; Liljeblad, Jonathan ,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2021]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

Since 2011 Myanmar has experienced many changes to its social, political and economic landscape. The formation of a new government in 2016, led by the National League for Democracy, was a crucially important milestone in the country's transition to a more inclusive form of governance. And yet, for many people everyday struggles remain unchanged, and have often worsened in recent years. Key economic, social and political reforms are stalled, conflict persists and longstanding issues of citizenship and belonging remain. The wide-ranging, myriad and multiple challenges of Living with Myanmar is the subject of this volume. Following the Myanmar Update series tradition, each of the authors offers a different perspective on the sociopolitical and economic mutations occurring in the country and the challenges that still remain. The book is divided into six sections and covers critical issues ranging from gender equality and identity politics, to agrarian reform and the representative role of parliament. Collectively, these voices raise key questions concerning the institutional legacies of military rule and their ongoing role in subverting the country's reform process. However, they also offer insights into the creative and productive ways that Myanmar's activists, civil society, parliamentarians, bureaucrats and everyday people attempt to engage with and reform those legacies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors and Editors -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Introduction: Living with Myanmar -- Part II. Parliamentary Life -- 2. Parliamentary Life under the NLD -- 3. People Power or Political Pressure? Drivers of Representative Performance in Southern Sub-National Parliaments, Myanmar -- 4. Time Changing Hands in Myanmar: On Former Prisoners' Journeys into Politics -- Part III. Economic Life -- 5. Macro-Financial Reforms in Myanmar under the NLD: Plans, Progress and Prospects -- 6. Poverty and Inequality in Myanmar: 2005-2017 -- 7. Myanmar's Rural Economy at a Crossroads -- 8. Ten Years of Fisheries Governance Reforms in Myanmar (2008-2018) -- Part IV. Living with Institutional Legacies -- 9. Reviewing Reforms in the NLD's Fourth Year - Education, Citizenship and Peace -- 10. Building a Knowledge Society through Library Education in Myanmar -- 11. The Winding Path to Gender Equality in Myanmar -- 12. Women's Movements in Myanmar and the Era of #Me Too -- Part V. Living with Plural Identities -- 13. Do People Really Want Ethnofederalism Anymore? Findings from Deliberative Surveys on the Role of Ethnic Identity in Federalism in Myanmar -- 14. The Emergence of Dawkalu in the Karen Ethnic Claim in the 1880s and the Beginning of Contestations for "Native Races" -- 15. The Ambiguities of Citizenship Status in Myanmar -- Part VI. Conclusion -- 16. Epilogue - Concluding Themes -- Abbreviations and Key Terms -- Index