Description: Further DetailsTitle: Forging the NationCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackSubtitle: Land Struggles in Myanmar’s Transition PeriodEAN: 9780824895150ISBN: 9780824895150Publisher: University of Hawai'i PressRelease Date: 05/30/2023Description: On February 1, 2021, Myanmar was thrown into a state of crisis by a military coup, abruptly ending a decade of civilian rule. The junta imprisoned the political opposition and deployed lethal force to quell dissent, thinking that most people would meekly acquiesce. However, they underestimated the tenacity of the nascent democracy that had taken root in the last decade. Instead, a civil disobedience movement quickly emerged, with people going on strike across the country to prevent the junta from exerting control, which was soon followed by armed struggle among urban youth. Forging the Nation: Land Struggles in Myanmar’s Transition Period examines how democratic institutions were fought over and built from 2011 to 2020 through the lens of land politics. This book explains how the differences in outcomes in the contest over land are situated in the specific historic and political contexts of Myanmar’s states and regions, despite them being subject to the same national dynamics.As Myanmar is an agriculture-based economy involving two-thirds of the population, land remains a coveted asset in the era of the "global land rush," referring to the intensification of capital’s pursuit of land since the food price surges in 2008–2009. Thus, land is also the ideal lens through which to understand the dynamics of a country that underwent a three-part transition: towards democracy, towards peace with a national ceasefire, and towards open markets after the lifting of sanctions by the West. Against a fraught democratization process that unfolded from 2011 to 2020, Forging the Nation looks at how state and societal actors in Myanmar’s multiethnic society, recovering from over seven decades of civil war, negotiated land politics to shape democratic land institutions. By exploring the interaction of the democratic transition, ethnic politics, and global capital pressures on land across national, regional, and local scales, this book provides an overarching frame that pulls together these three facets that are usually treated separately in the literature. Finally, by emphasizing the co-constituent relationship between democratization and land politics, this book makes a unique contribution to understanding the role of land in political-economic transitions.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: SiuSue Mark, SiuSue Mark (author)Genre: Law & PoliticsTopic: HistoryISBN-10: 0824895150Type: Countries & RegionsRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Forging the Nation
Title: Forging the Nation
Subtitle: Land Struggles in Myanmar’s Transition Period
EAN: 9780824895150
ISBN: 9780824895150
Release Date: 05/30/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: History
ISBN-10: 0824895150
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Forging the Nation : Land Struggles in Myanmar's Transition Period
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: Asia / Southeast Asia, Economics / General, Political Ideologies / Democracy, World / Asian
Item Weight: 12.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Siusue Mark
Subject Area: Political Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
