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Surviving the State : Land and Democracy in Myanmar / Hilary Oliva Faxon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Faxon, Hilary Oliva.
- Series:
- Global and Insurgent Legalities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land tenure--Burma--Kalemyo.
- Land tenure.
- Land tenure--Political aspects--Burma--Kalemyo.
- Rice farmers--Burma--Kalemyo.
- Rice farmers.
- Women in agriculture--Burma--Kalemyo.
- Women in agriculture.
- Confiscations--Burma--Kalemyo.
- Confiscations.
- Forced migration--Burma--Kalemyo.
- Forced migration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "Surviving the State considers the everyday, land-based practices of mostly women farmers in Myanmar, as they endure the violence and neglect of the authoritarian state. The book is built on Hilary Faxon's ethnographic fieldwork in Myanmar's Kalay Valley near the Indian border, a rice-growing region where farmers have been subject to land grabs and displacement so that profitable oil palm plantations could be built on what was once subsistence farming land. Faxon observes how Myanmar small-holders treat land not only as a source of food, a place of kinship, and a source of identity but as a living thing entwined with the families it supports. She considers the centrality of land politics, both to the state's efforts to control the area and the Burmese inhabitants' efforts to survive and support their families. Faxon looks at how farmers and local officials blur, evade, and obfuscate legal boundaries to hold on to their land in the face of land seizures and redistribution. Providing a rare view into post-coup Myanmar, Surviving the State illuminates the country's land politics through a feminist lens that questions what it means to live a meaningful life beyond mere survival"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Securing Subsistence
- Making Meaningful Life
- Learning Risky Rights
- From Cultivating Ambiguity to Demonstrating Deservingness
- Fleeing Home and Fighting Back
- Seeking Justice.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4780-6250-9
- OCLC:
- 1593999091
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