Research Catalog

Title

Myanmar's mountain and maritime borderscapes : local practices, boundary-making and figured worlds / edited by Su-Ann Oh.

Publication

Singapore : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2016.

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Additional Authors

• Oh, Su-Ann, 1973-
• ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, publisher.
• Conference on Myanmar from the Margins (2013 : Singapore)

Description

xx, 398 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Subject

• Nationenbildung
• Nationale Minderheit
• Kulturkontakt
• Migration
• Binnenwanderung
• Grenzgebiet
• Grenze
• Internal migrants > Myanmar, Burma
• Borderlands > Burma
• Birma
• Burma > Politics and government
• Burma > Religious life and customs

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Papers originally presented at a Conference on Myanmar from the Margins, held in Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 14-15 November 2013.
• Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• In English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Su-Ann Oh -- Overview of Myanmar's mountain and maritime borderscapes -- Electoral Sovereignty in Myanmar's borderlands / Nicholas Farrelly -- The maritime frontier of Myanmar : challenges in the early 21st century / Maung Aung Myoe -- Territorial claims and imagined boundaries -- Burman territories and borders in the making of a Myanmar nation state / Maxime Boutry -- Ritual and the other in Rakhine spirit cults / Alexandra de Mersan -- Rohingya territoriality in Myanmar and Bangladesh : humanitarian crisis and national disordering / Anders Bjornberg -- Social organization and border economies -- The Culture and landscape of the humanitarian economy among the Karen (Kayin) in the borderland of southeast Myanmar and northwest Thailand / Alexander Horstmann -- Navigating learning, employment and economies in the Mae Sot-Myawaddy borderland / Su-Ann Oh -- Mobile practices and moving borders -- The spatiality and borderless-ness of contentious politics : Kachin mobilities as capability / Karin Dean -- The mule caravans as cross-border networks : local bands and their stretch on the frontier between Yunnan and Burma / Jianxiong Ma and Cunzhao Ma -- Identity construction and the politics of belonging -- "I want to stay forever in you" / Decha Tangseefa -- Life along the Naf border : identity politics of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh / Kazi Fahmida Farzana -- Home of the housekeeper : will Shan migrants return after a decade of migration? / Amporn Jirattikorn -- Moving on : spaces of engagement in the Kayah-Mae Hong Son borderland / Carl Grundy-Warr and Chin Wei Jun -- Institutionalized identity and border practices -- The Chin State-Mizoram Border : institutionalized xenophobia for state control / Bianca Son and N. William Singh -- Tai Buddhist practices on the China-Myanmar border / Takahiro Kojima.

ISBN

• 9789814695763
• 9814695769
• 9789814695770
• 9814695777

LCCN

^^2016326238

OCLC

• 959835794
• SCSB-11449922

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library