{"id":9481,"date":"2020-02-07T13:53:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T04:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/?p=9481"},"modified":"2020-02-07T13:53:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T04:53:08","slug":"20200207-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/2020\/02\/20200207-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Publication Announcement: Unravelling Myanmar\u2019s Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unravelling Myanmar\u2019s Transition:
Progress, Retrenchment, and Ambiguity Amidst Liberalization<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nPavin Chachavalpongpun<\/a>, Elliott Prasse-Freeman, and Patrick Strefford, eds.
\nYear-Month<\/strong>: 2020.02
\nPublisher<\/strong>: Kyoto University Press & NUS Press
\nISBN<\/strong>: 9784814002450
\nLanguage<\/strong>: English<\/p>\n

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Outline<\/strong>\uff1a
\nThe optimism provoked by Myanmar\u2019s political reforms in 2011\u201312 has now given way to a sense that the uneven nature of change in this nation of 54 million has lead to instability and uncertainty.<\/p>\n

The liberalization of critical sectors and expansion of certain freedoms\u2014such as political and legal opportunities for expression and mobilization\u2014contrasts with the entrenchment of structural problems. It becomes ever more difficult to tackle ethnic marginalization and conflict, over-dependence on natural resource extraction, inadequate public services, and problems of under-capacity in the civilian bureaucracy.<\/p>\n

The result is the build up of a toxic environment in which classism, racism, and bigotry threaten to rend Myanmar\u2019s already delicate social fabric.<\/p>\n

The contributors to this volume bring unique perspectives and methodologies to bear to unravel Myanmar\u2019s tangled challenges. Whether it is through studying corruption by analyzing the country\u2019s real estate bubble, assessing civil society advocacy capacity against extractive industries, or gauging the strength\u2014and surprising weakness\u2014of Myanmar\u2019s military, the volume employs unconventional approaches and analytical rigor to address a fundamental question: is Myanmar itself unraveling?<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong>\uff1a
\nList of Illustration
\nForeword by David I. Steinberg
\nIntroduction
\nElliott Prasse-Freeman, Pavin Chachavalpongpun, and Patrick Strefford<\/p>\n

SECTION ONE: THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE<\/p>\n

Chapter 1
\nPost-Elections Myanmar: Options, Opportunities or Challenges?
\nAung Tun<\/p>\n

Chapter 2
\nFragile Balance of Civil-Military Relations in Myanmar
\nYoshihiro Nakanishi<\/p>\n

Chapter 3
\nMyanmar’s Post-2015 Foreign Policy: Prisms of Interpretation
\nMoe Thuzar and Pavin Chachavalpongpun<\/p>\n

SECTION TWO: THE CHALLENGE OF THE POLITICAL ECONOMY<\/p>\n

Chapter 4
\nThe Structure of Myanmar’s Corporate and Financial System: Growth Challenges since the 1990s
\nFumiharu Mieno<\/p>\n

Chapter 5
\nUrban Real Estate and the Financial System in Myanmar
\nBo Bo Nge<\/p>\n

Chapter 6
\nMyanmar’s Environmental Governance in Transition: 136 The Case of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative-
\nMarjanneke J. Vijge and Adam Simpson<\/p>\n

SECTION THREE: THE SOCIO-CULTURAL ISSUES<\/p>\n

Chapter 7
\nThe Post-2011 Transition in Myanmar: Donor-driven Aid and Donor Capacity Deficit
\nPatrick Strefford<\/p>\n

Chapter 8
\nEthnic Education Systems in Burma: Possibilities for Harmonization and Integration
\nPatrick McCormick<\/p>\n

Chapter 9
\nMyanmar’s Political Transition and Its E\u30b6ects on the Buddhist Religio-Political Landscape
\nMatthew J. Walton<\/p>\n

SECTION FOUR: THE ROHINGYA CRISIS<\/p>\n

Chapter 10
\nMotherhood, Home, and the Political Economy of Rohingya Women’s Labor
\nShae A. Frydenlund<\/p>\n

Chapter 11
\nTwo Sides of the Same Arakanese Coin: “Rakhine,” “Rohingya,” and Ethnogenesis as Schismogenesis
\nElliott Prasse-Freeman and Kirt Mausert<\/p>\n

Contributors
\nIndex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unravelling Myanmar\u2019s Transition: Progress, Retrenchment, and Ambiguity Amidst Liberalization Pavin Chachavalpongpun, Elliott Prasse-Freeman, and Patrick Strefford, eds. Year-Month: 2020.02 Publisher: Kyoto University Press & NUS Press ISBN: 9784814002450 Language: English       Outline\uff1a The optimism provoked by Myanmar\u2019s political reforms in 2011\u201312 has now given way to a sense that the uneven nature of change in this nation of 54 million has lead to instability and uncertainty. The liberalization of critical sectors and expansion of certain freedoms\u2014such as political and legal opportunities for expression and mobilization\u2014contrasts with the entrenchment of structural problems. It becomes ever more difficult to tackle ethnic marginalization and conflict, over-dependence on natural resource extraction, inadequate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Pavin_bookcover.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8zquF-2sV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9483,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481\/revisions\/9483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}