Repossessing Shanland
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Repossessing Shanland

Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred

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Repossessing Shanland

Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred

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Around five million people across Southeast Asia identify as Shan. Though the Shan people were promised an independent state in the 1947 Union of Burma constitution, successive military governments blocked their liberation. From 1958 onward, insurgency movements, including the Shan United Revolution Army, have fought for independence from Myanmar. Refugees numbering in the hundreds of thousands fled to Thailand to escape the conflict, despite struggling against oppressive citizenship laws there. Several decades of continuous rebellion have created a vacuum in which literati and politicians have constructed a virtual Shan state that lives on in popular media, rock music, and Buddhist ritual.Based on close readings of Shan-language media and years of ethnographic research in a community of soldiers and their families, Jane M. Ferguson details the origins of these movements and tells the story of the Shan in their own voices. She shows how the Shan have forged a homeland and identity during great upheaval by using state building as an ongoing project of resistance, resilience, and accommodation within both countries. In avoiding a good/bad moral binary and illuminating cultural complexities, Repossessing Shanland offers a fresh perspective on identity formation, transformation, and how people understand and experience borderlands today.

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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780299333034
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Prologue: The Tale of the Great Tiger King
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. Passport to Ancient Shanland
  7. 2. A Cold War Fusion of Elite Ideals with an Armed Insurgency
  8. 3. Revolutionary Ink and the Shan Insurgent Culture Industries
  9. 4. Shanland during the Reign of the Heroin King
  10. 5. Little Brother Is Exploiting You
  11. 6. We Are Siamese (If You Please)
  12. 7. Rockin’ in the Shan World
  13. 8. Future Shan Kings or Ethnic Poster Children
  14. Conclusion: Finding the Shan Nation, Building a Shan State
  15. Notes
  16. References
  17. Index