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_b.M936 2016
245 0 0 _aMyanmar's mountain and maritime borderscapes
_h[electronic resource] :
_blocal practices, boundary-making and figured worlds /
_cedited by Su-Ann Oh.
260 _aSingapore :
_bISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute,
_c2016.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (1 PDF (xx, 398 pages) :)
_bmaps, illustrations
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aPapers originally presented at a Conference on Myanmar from the Margins, held in Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 14-15 November 2013.
500 _aIssued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _a1. Introduction / Su-Ann Oh -- I. Overview of Myanmar's mountain and maritime borderscapes -- 2. Electoral Sovereignty in Myanmar's borderlands / Nicholas Farrelly -- 3. The maritime frontier of Myanmar : challenges in the early 21st century / Maung Aung Myoe -- II. Territorial claims and imagined boundaries -- 4. Burman territories and borders in the making of a Myanmar nation state / Maxime Boutry -- 5. Ritual and the other in Rakhine spirit cults / Alexandra de Mersan -- 6. Rohingya territoriality in Myanmar and Bangladesh : humanitarian crisis and national disordering / Anders Bjornberg -- III. Social organization and border economies -- 7. The Culture and landscape of the humanitarian economy among the Karen (Kayin) in the borderland of southeast Myanmar and northwest Thailand / Alexander Horstmann -- 8. Navigating learning, employment and economies in the Mae Sot-Myawaddy borderland / Su-Ann Oh -- IV. Mobile practices and moving borders -- 9. The spatiality and borderless-ness of contentious politics : Kachin mobilities as capability / Karin Dean -- 10. The mule caravans as cross-border networks : local bands and their stretch on the frontier between Yunnan and Burma / Jianxiong Ma and Cunzhao Ma -- V. Identity construction and the politics of belonging -- 11. "I want to stay forever in you" / Decha Tangseefa -- 12. Life along the Naf border : identity politics of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh / Kazi Fahmida Farzana -- 13. Home of the housekeeper : will Shan migrants return after a decade of migration? / Amporn Jirattikorn -- 14. Moving on : spaces of engagement in the Kayah-Mae Hong Son borderland / Carl Grundy-Warr and Chin Wei Jun -- VI. Institutionalized identity and border practices -- 15. The Chin State-Mizoram Border : institutionalized xenophobia for state control / Bianca Son and N. William Singh -- 16. T{breve}ai Buddhist practices on the China-Myanmar border / Takahiro Kojima.
506 _aAccess restricted to authorized users and institutions.
520 _aThis edited volume adds to the literature on Myanmar and its borders by drawing attention to the significance of geography, history, politics and society in the construction of the border regions and the country. First, it alerts us to the fact that the border regions are situated in the mountainous and maritime domains of the country, highlighting the commonalities that arise from shared geography. Second, the book foregrounds socio-spatio practices--economic, intimate, spiritual, virtual--of border and boundary-making in their local context. This demonstrates how state-defined notions of territory, borders and identity are enacted or challenged. Third, despite sharing common features, Myanmar's borderscapes also possess unique configurations of ethnic, political and economic attributes, producing social formations and figured worlds that are more cohesive or militant in some border areas than in others. Understanding and comparing these social practices and their corresponding life-worlds allows us to re-examine the connections from the borderlands back to the hinterland and to consider the value of border and boundary studies in problematizing and conceptualizing recent changes in Myanmar.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aInternal migrants
_zBurma.
651 0 _aBurma
_xReligious life and customs.
651 0 _aBurma
_xBoundaries.
651 0 _aBurma
_xPolitics and government.
651 0 _aBorderlands
_zBurma.
655 0 _aElectronic books.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aOh, Su-Ann,
_d1973-
_eeditor.
710 2 _aProject Muse,
_edistributor.
711 2 _aConference on Myanmar from the Margins
_d(2013 :
_cSingapore),
_jauthor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9789814695763
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/47837/
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Asian and Pacific Studies
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Archaeology and Anthropology
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete
999 _c1039
_d1039