ISBN:
9781789207170
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
182 p.
Edition:
1st edition
DDC:
305.895
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction: Spaces of Solidarity -- Chapter 1. Movements across space: The Thai-Burma borderlands as a social construct -- Chapter 2. From buffer zone to friendship bridge: The contemporary context of the Thai-Burma borderlands -- Chapter 3. By the shade of a tree: Scales of resistance, patterns of activism -- Chapter 4. This story is not for myself: Paths of connectivity/networks of solidarity -- Chapter 5. ‘Symbolic anchors of community’: Processes of cultural recovery -- Conclusion: The Space Between -- References -- Index --
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http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/SharplesSpaces
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http://sozialundkulturanthropologie.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/berghahn-e-books/fid.berghahnbooksonline.com/title/SharplesSpaces
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