Overview
- Analyzes tensions and conflict resolution processes between minority ethnic groups and the central government in Myanmar
- Covers topics on the Kokang Chinese, Karen minority group, and the Kachin and Shan States
- Provides firsthand reporting and scholarship on Myanmar, which have not been available for the past sixty years
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Communication, Culture and Change in Asia (CCCA, volume 1)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- China-Myanmar border relations in Kachin State
- China-Myanmar border relations in Shan State
- Community forestry in Myanmar
- Community responses to Nargis
- Conflict Studies in Myanmar
- Culture and change in Myanmar
- Ethnic Groups in Myanmar
- Ethnic identity in Kokang
- Kokang and Chinese Minority
- Mangrove forest depletion in the Myanmar/Burma Delta
- Minority Groups in Myanmar
- Neo-Liberalism in Myanmar
- Sustainability in Pa-O Forest
- Yangon and Karen minority relations
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Walaiporn Tantikanangkul is an associated editor at the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University. She was a former Director of the Humanities Academic Services (HAS) Center, Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University. With her MA in Linguistics in Education - her research focused on language and communication and discourse analysis - she has presented language and power, and comparative studies of academic writing in Thailand, USA and UK. She has taught at a refugee camp in Thailand, teaching English for refugees from Cambodia and Laos accepted for resettlement in USA. Having lived in UK for 20 years, she has worked with refugees from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Ethiopia and Tibet, and taught Thai for adults, including from Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Ministry of Defence (MoD), at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She is founder of a free e-magazine on socio-political issues in Thailand.
Ashley Pritchard is an independent expert on Myanmar, based in Yangon. She graduated with a MA in International Development Studies at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She authored and co-authored several books and papers on corporate accountability in ASEAN, tourism development and its impact on human rights in Myanmar. She possesses over eight years of practical experience in developing innovative programs and projects targeting underserved populations in the field of improving human rights, corporate accountability, good governance and transparency, rule of law and livelihoods, and also in project management and evaluation. Her work also involves community and government support, development of key coalitions, and negotiation of contracts for community, social, environmental and economic benefit particularly in Myanmar. Her involvement in research reflects her deep commitment to improving the lives of the disenfranchised and marginalized through international development and human rights policies.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Politics of Autonomy and Sustainability in Myanmar
Book Subtitle: Change for New Hope…New Life?
Editors: Walaiporn Tantikanangkul, Ashley Pritchard
Series Title: Communication, Culture and Change in Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0363-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0361-5Published: 04 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9142-1Published: 07 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0363-9Published: 26 February 2016
Series ISSN: 2366-4665
Series E-ISSN: 2366-4673
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 123
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comparative Politics, Public Administration, Regional and Cultural Studies