Pathways that Changed Myanmar

Matthew Mullen

• Editorial: Zed Books
• Año: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781783605101
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Categoría: Geopolítica

In the midst of the political upheavals that engulfed Myanmar from 2010 to 2011, international attention was fixed upon the military regime and its dissident opponents. But away from the cameras, a very different set of struggles were unfolding across the country. These struggles were manifested not as violent clashes, but as everyday interactions involving taxi drivers, community organizers, farmers, heads of domestic NGOs, and many more. A product of five years' research, during which the author conducted over five hundred ethnographic interviews across the country, Pathways that Changed Myanmar provides a voice for those ordinary Burmese whose trials and aspirations went unheard and unnoticed during this pivotal moment in the nation's history.

Index

8/8/88 movement, 26, 27, 28, 29–32, 34, 37; crackdown on, 32

88 Generation Students Group, 32

969 movement, 24, 193–205; emergence of, 196–1 99

Abe, Shinzo, 158

activism, promotion of, viewed as exploitative, 144

activists, funding of, 115

agency, undermining of, 125, 126

agriculture, covert, 94

Agriculture and Farmers Federation of Myanmar, 227

All Burma Monks Alliance, 33

All Burmese Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF), 38, 69

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 159

Amnesty International, 174

amphetamines, production of, 90

anger, 123; suppression of, 86, 88

Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League (AFPFL), 28, 35; split in, 36

anti-Muslim sentiment, 3, 24, 106, 145, 191, 193–205; calls for purges of Muslims, 205

anti-politics, 227

Arab Spring, 45–4 6

armed resistance, 34–40, 139, 143; international ...

Índice

• Cover
• About the author
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• One. Introduction
• Two. The clash that galvanized a global movement
• Three. The Third Force
• Four. Everyday resistance
• Five. From bullets to bribery
• Six. Sanctions: a cure and a disease
• Seven. Nay Win Maung’s funeral
• Eight. From human rights rhetoric to 969
• Nine. Transitioning to an NLD-led Myanmar
• Notes
• References
• Index