Spaces of solidarity : Karen activism in the Thailand-Burma borderlands / Rachel Sharples.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharples, Rachel, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Karen (Southeast Asian people)--Social conditions.

Karen (Southeast Asian people).

Thailand--Ethnic relations--Political aspects.

Thailand.

Burma--Ethnic relations--Political aspects.

Burma.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 165 pages) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, [2020]

Summary:

Exploring notions of activism and space as narrated by Karen displaced persons and refugees in the Thai-Burma borderlands, this book looks beyond refugees as passive victims or a ‘humanitarian case’. Instead, the book examines the active engagement the Karen have with their persecution and displacement and their subsequent emplacement in the borderlands. A key focus of the book is to look at this engagement in terms of spaces of solidarity – constructed through patterns of activism, paths of connectivity and processes of cultural recovery. The book also studies the spatial configuration of borderlands, examining the impact of cross-border activities and their inter-related nature.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction. Spaces of Solidarity

Chapter 1. Movements across Space

Chapter 2. From Buffer Zone to Friendship Bridge

Chapter 3. By the Shade of a Tree

Chapter 4. This Story Is Not for Myself

Chapter 5. ‘Symbolic Anchors of Community’

Conclusion. The Space Between

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-379-1

1-78920-717-7

OCLC:

1203949504