Conflict in Myanmar : war, politics, religion / edited by Nick Cheesman, Nicholas Farrelly.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Cheesman, Nick, contributor, editor.

Farrelly, Nicholas, 1982- contributor, editor.

ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, publisher.

Conference Name:

Myanmar/Burma Update Conference (2015 : Australian National University)

Series:

Myanmar update series.

Myanmar update series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social conflict--Burma--Congresses.

Social conflict.

Political violence--Burma--Congresses.

Political violence.

Religion and politics--Burma--Congresses.

Religion and politics.

Burma--Politics and government--1988---Congresses.

Burma.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 390 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

As Myanmar's military adjusts to life with its former opponents holding elected office, Conflict in Myanmar showcases innovative research by a rising generation of scholars, analysts and practitioners about the past five years of political transformation. Each of its seventeen chapters, from participants in the 2015 Myanmar Update conference held at the Australian National University, builds on theoretically informed, evidence-based research to grapple with significant questions about ongoing violence and political contention. The authors offer a variety of fresh views on the most intractable and controversial aspects of Myanmar's long-running civil wars, fractious politics and religious tensions. This latest volume in the Myanmar Update Series from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific continues and deepens a tradition of intense, critical engagement with political, economic and social questions that matter to both the inhabitants and neighbours of one of Southeast Asia's most complicated and fascinating countries.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of maps

List of tables

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Contributors and Editors

I. Introduction

1. Myanmar's conflicted politics / Farrelly, Nicholas

II. War and Order

2. The politics of policymaking in transitional government / Aung, Su Mon Thazin

3. Reexamining the centrality of ethnic identity to the Kachin conflict / Laoutides, Costas / Ware, Anthony

4. A feminist political economy analysis of insecurity and violence in Kachin State / Hedström, Jenny

5. Pacifying the margins / Yue, Ricky

6. Landmines as a form of community protection in eastern Myanmar / Cathcart, Gregory S.

III. Elections and After

7. The 2015 elections and conflict dynamics in Myanmar / Lidauer, Michael

8. Institutions in Myanmar's 2015 election / Sein, Chaw Chaw

9. Ethnicity and Buddhist nationalism in the 2015 Rakhine State election results / Tun, Than

10. The Hluttaw and conflicts in Myanmar / Win, Chit

11. Legislating reform? / Crouch, Melissa

IV. Us and Them

12. Making sense of reactions to communal violence in Myanmar / Wells, Tamas

13. Public perceptions of a divided Myanmar / Welsh, Bridget / Huang, Kai-Ping

14. On Islamophobes and Holocaust deniers / Schissler, Matt

15. Buddhist welfare and the limits of big 'P' politics in provincial Myanmar / McCarthy, Gerard

16. Threat perceptions in the Myanmar-Bangladesh borderlands / Khan, Helal Mohammed

V. Conclusion

17. Myanmar and the promise of the political / Cheesman, Nick

Abbreviations and Key Terms

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9789814695879

9814695874

OCLC:

958182085