Community Welfare Organisations in Rural Myanmar: Precarity and Parahita

ISBN-13: 9781032084763 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 232 str.

Michael P. Griffiths

Opis

At a time when discourse on identity in Myanmar has been dominated by practices of othering and exclusion, this book provides an important analysis of what citizenship and reciprocity means in contemporary rural Myanmar. Researchers working on rural development, social sciences, and Southeast Asia will find this an important resource.

Spis treści

1. New moral economies of the peasant: rethinking Scott in 21st century Myanmar 2. States of being: a brief background to contemporary Myanmar 3. Widening circles: rural transformation in contemporary Myanmar 4. Precarity and the post-peasant experience 5. Emergent Associations: the assemblage of precarity 6. Performing Parahita : ecologies of redistribution 7. Buddhism, Parahita and the Other: the boundaries of emergent welfare 8. The moral economy of welfare: post-peasant politics and citizenship Index

O autorze

Mike Griffiths has been conducting research on rural development and social protection in Myanmar for over 15 years, regularly advising the national government on poverty reduction strategies and social policy. He is currently working as lead researcher for the Yangon based Social Policy & Poverty Research Group (SPPRG), which has a particular focus on conducting research relevant to emerging government policy. This book is based on his recent PhD thesis, which studied on traditional social protection organizations in Myanmar. Dr. Griffiths teaches multi-disciplinary research methodology at Mandalay University in central Myanmar, and at the University of Yangon, as well as continuing as a Research Associate at the University of Hull.