ISBN:
9781789207163
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 165 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Sharples, Rachel Spaces of solidarity
DDC:
305.895
Keywords:
Karen (Southeast Asian people) Social conditions
;
Karen (Southeast Asian people) Social networks
;
Borderlands Social aspects
;
Borderlands Social aspects
;
Refugees
;
Refugees
;
Thailand Ethnic relations
;
Political aspects
;
Burma Ethnic relations
;
Political aspects
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Thailand
;
Myanmar
;
Grenzgebiet
;
Karen
;
Flüchtling
;
Aktivismus
;
Solidarität
Abstract:
Introduction: Spaces of Solidarity -- Movements across Space: The Thai-Burma Borderlands as a Social Construct -- From Buffer Zone to Friendship Bridge: The Contemporary Context of the Thai-Burma Borderlands -- By the Shade of a Tree: Scales of Resistance, Patterns of Activism -- This Story Is Not for Myself: Paths of Connectivity/Networks of Solidarity -- 'Symbolic Anchors of Community': Processes of Cultural Recovery -- Conclusion: The Space Between.
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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