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

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,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
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Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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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