Rachel Sharples

Spaces of Solidarity

Karen Activism in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring notions of activism and space as narrated by Karen displaced persons and refugees in the Thai-Burma borderlands, this book looks beyond refugees as passive victims or a 'humanitarian case'. Instead, the book examines the active engagement the Karen have with their persecution and displacement and their subsequent emplacement in the borderlands. A key focus of the book is to look at this engagement in terms of spaces of solidarity - constructed through patterns of activism, paths of connectivity and processes of cultural recovery. The book also studies the spatial configuration of borderlands, examining the impact of cross-border activities and their inter-related nature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9781789207163
• ISBN-10: 1789207169
• Artikelnr.: 58039733

Autorenporträt

Rachel Sharples is a Researcher in the Challenging Racism Project in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University. She has worked with the Karen and conducted research in the Thai-Burma borderlands since 2002.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Maps
Introduction: Spaces of Solidarity
Chapter 1. Movements across space: The Thai-Burma borderlands as a social
construct
Chapter 2. From buffer zone to friendship bridge: The contemporary context
of the Thai-Burma borderlands
Chapter 3. By the shade of a tree: Scales of resistance, patterns of
activism
Chapter 4. This story is not for myself: Paths of connectivity/networks of
solidarity
Chapter 5. 'Symbolic anchors of community': Processes of cultural recovery
Conclusion: The Space Between
References
Index