Living with Myanmar / edited by Justine Chambers, Charlotte Galloway, Jonathan Liljeblad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chambers, Justine, editor.

Galloway, Charlotte Kendrick, editor.

Liljeblad, Jonathan, editor.

Series:

Myanmar update series.

Myanmar update series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burma--Politics and government--21st century--Congresses.

Burma.

Burma--Social conditions--Congresses.

Burma--Economic conditions--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 386 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Singapore : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Since 2011 Myanmar has experienced many changes to its social, political and economic landscape. The formation of a new government in 2016, led by the National League for Democracy, was a crucially important milestone in the country's transition to a more inclusive form of governance. And yet, for many people everyday struggles remain unchanged, and have often worsened in recent years. Key economic, social and political reforms are stalled, conflict persists and longstanding issues of citizenship and belonging remain. The wide-ranging, myriad and multiple challenges of Living with Myanmar is the subject of this volume. Following the Myanmar Update series tradition, each of the authors offers a different perspective on the sociopolitical and economic mutations occurring in the country and the challenges that still remain. The book is divided into six sections and covers critical issues ranging from gender equality and identity politics, to agrarian reform and the representative role of parliament. Collectively, these voices raise key questions concerning the institutional legacies of military rule and their ongoing role in subverting the country's reform process. However, they also offer insights into the creative and productive ways that Myanmar's activists, civil society, parliamentarians, bureaucrats and everyday people attempt to engage with and reform those legacies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Tables

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Contributors and Editors

Part I. Introduction

1. Introduction: Living with Myanmar

Part II. Parliamentary Life

2. Parliamentary Life under the NLD

3. People Power or Political Pressure? Drivers of Representative Performance in Southern Sub-National Parliaments, Myanmar

4. Time Changing Hands in Myanmar: On Former Prisoners' Journeys into Politics

Part III. Economic Life

5. Macro-Financial Reforms in Myanmar under the NLD: Plans, Progress and Prospects

6. Poverty and Inequality in Myanmar: 2005-2017

7. Myanmar's Rural Economy at a Crossroads

8. Ten Years of Fisheries Governance Reforms in Myanmar (2008-2018)

Part IV. Living with Institutional Legacies

9. Reviewing Reforms in the NLD's Fourth Year - Education, Citizenship and Peace

10. Building a Knowledge Society through Library Education in Myanmar

11. The Winding Path to Gender Equality in Myanmar

12. Women's Movements in Myanmar and the Era of #Me Too

Part V. Living with Plural Identities

13. Do People Really Want Ethnofederalism Anymore? Findings from Deliberative Surveys on the Role of Ethnic Identity in Federalism in Myanmar

14. The Emergence of Dawkalu in the Karen Ethnic Claim in the 1880s and the Beginning of Contestations for "Native Races"

15. The Ambiguities of Citizenship Status in Myanmar

Part VI. Conclusion

16. Epilogue - Concluding Themes

Abbreviations and Key Terms

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Papers originally presented to the Myanmar Update 2019 held at the Australian National University, Canberra, from 15 to 16 March 2019.

ISBN:

9789814881043

981488104X

9789814881050

9814881058

OCLC:

1233041297