Myanmar

ISBN-13: 9781032478098 / Twarda / 2023 / 384 str.

Opis

This new edition provides a sophisticated overview of the key political, economic and social challenges facing contemporary Myanmar. It will be of interest to scholars of SEA politics, economics and society. 

Recenzje

Praise for the first edition:

"[...] a must-read for scholars on contemporary Myanmar and fascinating for anyone interested in broader processes of political and economic transformations. [...] the book is a welcome addition to studies of contemporary Myanmar and deserves to be read widely."

--Marco Bünte, European Journal of East Asian Studies

Praise for the first edition:

“This excellent survey of Myanmar politics, economy, and society over 17 short chapters is obviously marred by the coup d’état of 1 February 2021. As an edited volume, the editors introduce and conclude the volume while assigning the ‘meat’ of the book to various experts on salient issues related to Myanmar’s politics, economy, and society. […] this book is a valuable survey of the issues and challenges facing contemporary Myanmar. While presenting the proximate causes of post-Thein Sein disappointment, it also touches upon and articulately explains the underlying forces, perceptions and prejudices that make achieving peace, let alone democracy, unlikely in this ‘fiendish brew’ of a country.”

--Adam McCarty and Callum Furness, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 2022.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Analysing a Disaster, Wrapped in a Catastrophe, Inside a Tragedy; Chapter 2. Déjà Vu All Over Again: The 2021 Coup in Historical Perspective Part 1: Politics Chapter 3. Ethnic Politics: Diversity and Agency Amidst Persistent Violence; Chapter 4. The Military: Institution and Politics; Chapter 5. Land and Law Between Reform and Revolution; Chapter 6. Democracy and Human Rights under Military Rule: Three Iterations of Myanmar’s National Security State; Chapter 7. Foreign and Diplomatic (Dis)Engagement: Military Priorities, Strategic Realities and Contested Legitimacies Part 2: Economy Chapter 8. Political Regimes and Economic Policy: Isolation, Consolidation, Reintegration and Rupture; Chapter 9. Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods: Incipient Progress Aborted; Chapter 10. Natural Resource Governance and the Environment: Unconstrained Exploitation Under Authoritarianism; Chapter 11. Industrial Policy and Special Economic Zones: Engaging Transformation in a Globalised World Part 3: Society Chapter 12. Art and Heritage: Creating and Preserving Cultural Histories; Chapter 13. Public Health: State and Non-State Systems in a Changing Society; Chapter 14. Education: Reforms Undone; Chapter 15. Women in Myanmar: Change and Continuity; Chapter 16. Myanmar’s Contested Borderlands: Centre-Periphery Power Relations and Fragmented Sovereignty; Chapter 17. Ethnicity, Culture and Religion: Centralisation, Burmanisation and Social Transformation; Chapter 18. Journalism and Free Speech: Freedom and Fear; Chapter 19. Myanmar’s Complex and Intersecting Crises: Pathways to Accountability and International Justice; Index

O autorze

Adam Simpson is a senior lecturer in international studies within Justice and Society at the University of South Australia. His research adopts a critical perspective and is focused on the politics of the environment, development and democratisation in Southeast Asia, particularly Myanmar and Thailand. He is the author of Energy, Governance and Security in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma): A Critical Approach to Environmental Politics in the South (Routledge 2014) and is lead editor of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar (2018), also published by Routledge.

 

Nicholas Farrelly is a professor and head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania, Australia. His research focuses on political conflict and social change in mainland Southeast Asia, and he has undertaken extensive research across Myanmar. He is co-editor (with Adam Simpson and Ian Holliday) of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar (Routledge 2018).