Subject: Journal of Peasant Studies: Special Forum on Myanmar

Journal of Peasant Studies: Special Forum on Myanmar

    Myanmar is in a dangerous and uncertain moment following the military coup on 1 February 2021. The articles in this Special Forum provide timely contextual analysis. Written before the coup, the articles delve into the politics of agrarian transformation in the context of (what was then) an ongoing (but fragile) opening up of political space.

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    Journal of Peasant Studies: Special Forum on Myanmar

    A collection of articles on Myanmar

    27 April 2021

    Myanmar is in a dangerous and uncertain moment following the military coup on 1 February 2021. The articles in this Special Forum provide timely contextual analysis. Written before the coup, the articles delve into the politics of agrarian transformation in the context of (what was then) an ongoing (but fragile) opening up of political space. This introduction outlines three themes that connect the articles and now also shed some light on what the future may hold: (1) the limited character of the 2010–2021 ‘democratic transition’; (2) the struggles around land and natural resources amidst a social reproduction crisis and (3) the responses of rural working peoples. The contributions are authored mainly by social movement activists, providing grassroots activist perspectives on key issues in agrarian politics. Most of the articles are free access.

    The politics of Myanmar’s agrarian transformation: Introduction [1]
    Doi Ra, Sai Sam Kham, Mads Barbesgaard, Jennifer C. Franco & Pietje Vervest
    Free access

    ‘Neither war nor peace’ [2]: failed ceasefires and dispossession in Myanmar’s ethnic borderlands
    Tom Kramer
    Free access until 30 April 2021

    ‘Nothing about us, without us’: [3] reflections on the challenges of building Land in Our Hands, a national land network in Myanmar/Burma
    Doi Ra & Khu Khu Ju
    Free access

    Emerging ‘agrarian climate justice’ struggles in Myanmar [4]
    Yukari Sekine
    Free access

    Defending Shan State's customary tenure systems from below through collective action research [5]
    Oliver Springate-Baginski & Mi Kamoon
    Abstract available

    Gender and generation in rural politics in Myanmar [6]: a missed space for (re)negotiation?
    Clara Mi Young Park
    Free access until 30 April 2021

    The political economy of opium reduction in Myanmar [7]: the case for a new ‘alternative development’ paradigm led by and for opium poppy farmers
    Sai Lone & Renaud Cachia
    Abstract available

    Grassroots Voices: A letter from a jail cell [8]
    K Za Win
    Free access until 30 April 2021




     
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