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

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Oh, Su-Ann, 1973- editor.

ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, organizer, funder, publisher.

Conference Name:

Conference on Myanmar from the Margins (2013 : Singapore)

Conference on Myanmar from the Margins (2013 : Singapore), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internal migrants--Burma.

Internal migrants.

Borderlands--Burma.

Borderlands.

Burma--Politics and government.

Burma.

Burma--Religious life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 398 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

Acknowledgements / Oh, Su-Ann

Notes on Language, Terminology and Geographical Names

Contributors

Abbreviations

1. Introduction / Oh, Su-Ann

Section I. Overview of Myanmar's Mountain and Maritime Borderscapes

2. Electoral Sovereignty in Myanmar's Borderlands / Farrelly, Nicholas

3. The Maritime Frontier of Myanmar: Challenges in the Early 21st Century / Myoe, Maung Aung

Section II. Territorial Claims and Imagined Boundaries

4. Burman Territories and Borders in the Making of a Myanmar Nation State / Boutry, Maxime

5. Ritual and the Other in Rakhine Spirit Cults / Mersan, Alexandra de

6. Rohingya Territoriality in Myanmar and Bangladesh: Humanitarian Crisis and National Disordering / Bjornberg, Anders

Section 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 / Horstmann, Alexander

8. Navigating Learning, Employment and Economies in the Mae Sot-Myawaddy Borderland / Oh, Su-Ann

Section IV. Mobile Practices and Moving Borders

9. The Spatiality and Borderless-ness of Contentious Politics: Kachin Mobilities as Capability / Dean, Karin

10. The Mule Caravans as Cross-Border Networks: Local Bands and their Stretch on the Frontier between Yunnan and Burma / Ma, Jianxiong / Ma, Cunzhao

11. "I Want to Stay Forever in You" / Tangseefa, Decha

12. Life along the Naf Border: Identity Politics of the Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh / Farzana, Kazi Fahmida

13. Home of the Housekeeper: Will Shan Migrants Return after a Decade of Migration? / Jirattikorn, Amporn

14. Moving On: Spaces of Uncertain Freedom and Engagement in the Kayah-Mae Hong Son Borderland / Grundy-Warr, Carl / Jun, Chin Wei

Section VI. Institutionalized Identity and Border Practices

15. The Chin State-Mizoram Border: Institutionalized Xenophobia for State Control / Son, Bianca / Singh, N. William

16. Tăi Buddhist Practices on the China-Myanmar Border / Kojima, Takahiro

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789814695770

9814695777

OCLC:

958182700