Contested Frontiers: Indigenous Mobilization and Control Over Land and Natural Resources in Myanmar’s Upland Areas

Contested Frontiers: Indigenous Mobilization and Control Over Land and Natural Resources in Myanmar’s Upland Areas

Over the past two decades, Myanmar’s upland areas have gradually turned into formally administered, legible, and governable state-territory. Following decades of armed conflict, a series of ceasefire agreements since the 1990s opened the door for the central state’s expansion...

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Main Author: Rainer Einzenberger
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: SEAS - Society for South-East Asian Studies 2016-06-01
Series:ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Subjects:
Frontier
Indigenous Movements
Land
Myanmar
State Building
Online Access:https://aseas.univie.ac.at/index.php/aseas/article/view/1381/1222
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spelling doaj-8c7ca3ff5cd249c287c2d2e242d4994a2020-11-25T02:51:55ZdeuSEAS - Society for South-East Asian StudiesASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies1999-25211999-253X2016-06-019116317210.14764/10.ASEAS-2016.1-10Contested Frontiers: Indigenous Mobilization and Control Over Land and Natural Resources in Myanmar’s Upland AreasRainer EinzenbergerOver the past two decades, Myanmar’s upland areas have gradually turned into formally administered, legible, and governable state-territory. Following decades of armed conflict, a series of ceasefire agreements since the 1990s opened the door for the central state’s expansion of territorial control in the upland areas through the exploitation of natural resources and land concessions. New civil society coalitions are being formed inside Myanmar to resist the states strategy of accumulation by dispossession in conjunction with enclosures and the formation of state territory. This paper provides a brief outline of an ongoing research project which takes a socio-spatial perspective on state building processes and links the concept of the resource frontier with emerging discourses on indigenous rights in Myanmar. https://aseas.univie.ac.at/index.php/aseas/article/view/1381/1222FrontierIndigenous MovementsLandMyanmarState Building
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Contested Frontiers: Indigenous Mobilization and Control Over Land and Natural Resources in Myanmar’s Upland Areas
ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Frontier
Indigenous Movements
Land
Myanmar
State Building
author_facet Rainer Einzenberger
author_sort Rainer Einzenberger
title Contested Frontiers: Indigenous Mobilization and Control Over Land and Natural Resources in Myanmar’s Upland Areas
title_short Contested Frontiers: Indigenous Mobilization and Control Over Land and Natural Resources in Myanmar’s Upland Areas
title_full Contested Frontiers: Indigenous Mobilization and Control Over Land and Natural Resources in Myanmar’s Upland Areas
title_fullStr Contested Frontiers: Indigenous Mobilization and Control Over Land and Natural Resources in Myanmar’s Upland Areas
title_full_unstemmed Contested Frontiers: Indigenous Mobilization and Control Over Land and Natural Resources in Myanmar’s Upland Areas
title_sort contested frontiers: indigenous mobilization and control over land and natural resources in myanmar’s upland areas
publisher SEAS - Society for South-East Asian Studies
series ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
issn 1999-2521
1999-253X
publishDate 2016-06-01
description Over the past two decades, Myanmar’s upland areas have gradually turned into formally administered, legible, and governable state-territory. Following decades of armed conflict, a series of ceasefire agreements since the 1990s opened the door for the central state’s expansion of territorial control in the upland areas through the exploitation of natural resources and land concessions. New civil society coalitions are being formed inside Myanmar to resist the states strategy of accumulation by dispossession in conjunction with enclosures and the formation of state territory. This paper provides a brief outline of an ongoing research project which takes a socio-spatial perspective on state building processes and links the concept of the resource frontier with emerging discourses on indigenous rights in Myanmar.
topic Frontier
Indigenous Movements
Land
Myanmar
State Building
url https://aseas.univie.ac.at/index.php/aseas/article/view/1381/1222
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