ABSTRACT This paper seeks to articulate recent debates on globalisation and critical security with the process and local impact of international tourism development in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma). It argues that, although tourism is an important manifestation of the globalisation phenomenon, its impact on host societies is very much dependent upon the influence of local institutions and actors. Hence, the enquiry will focus principally upon the “global‐local interface”. The impact of tourism is viewed ...
Tópico(s): Maritime Security and History
1998 - Wiley | Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
Tópico(s): Maritime Security and History
2015 - University of British Columbia | Pacific Affairs
China has been severely criticised in the West for being an obstacle to democracy and progress on human rights in Myanmar. This is due largely to the perception that China, despite being a big and influential neighbour, has been extremely reluctant to apply pressure on Myanmar. Such a perception ignores the complexities in the China-Myanmar relationship. The two countries have various types of exchanges and interactions not only at the central government level but also at the local level in the ...
Tópico(s): Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development
2009 - World Scientific | China An International Journal
Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière,
This overview looks at the field of religion in Burmese studies from the perspective of practices that are relatively neglected, such as spirit cults. It argues that the overwhelming bias toward analysis of the Theravādin tradition tends to obscure the fact that in Burma, different kinds of religiosity actually interact in the shaping of the religious field and society. First, an analysis and selective review of past and present scholarly approaches to Burmese religion over the past forty years ...
Tópico(s): Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
2009 - Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture | Asian Ethnology
M. Shah Alam, Abdullah Al Faruque,
Abstract The sea areas of Bangladesh are reportedly rich in straddling fish stocks and mineral resources, including hydrocarbons. But a long-standing dispute over maritime boundary delimitation with India and Myanmar remains a major stumbling block in exploration of these resources. The overlapping claims of these three countries over the maritime zones in the Bay of Bengal need to be settled for peaceful exploration of natural resources. While India and Myanmar want to delimit the maritime boundary ...
Tópico(s): Maritime Security and History
2010 - Brill | The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law
Anuttama Ghose, Sanjana Bharadwaj, S. Mahmud Ali,
... sin control durante otra generación. A la luz de la agitación política y las rupturas constitucionales en Myanmar, este artículo intenta arrojar luz sobre las causas de estos atroces abusos contra los Rohingyas. El documento ...
Tópico(s): International Law and Human Rights
2023 - | Novum Jus
Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière,
Avec la prise de pouvoir du SLORC en 1988, la capitale de la Birmanie a connu un nouveau processus d'urbanisation liee au bouddhisme. En effet, les monuments (stoupas) sont des supports de la memoire et des legendes. A Rangoun, en plus de la pagode Shwedagon, ont ete erigees celles de Soule, de Bottetaung, de Thingandjoun et de Mobye, pagodes dont les representations ont ete reactivees. Grâce aux associations des notables du quartier et au soutien des representants du SLORC d'autres pagodes a l'Est ...
Tópico(s): Cambodian History and Society
1995 - | Journal des anthropologues
This article examines the major catalysts of the surge in activity over the maritime boundary dispute between Myanmar and Bangladesh and explores both the likely avenues for resolution and the resulting implications for the two countries and the region at large.
Tópico(s): Maritime Security and History
2010 - National Bureau of Asian Research | Asia policy
Marta Domini, Sunny Guidotti, Daniele Lantagne,
Abstract Knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) surveys are commonly conducted by humanitarian actors at project baseline and endline. We hypothesized summarized KAP data could inform water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programming and strategies. In conflict-affected Myanmar, the WASH Cluster collated KAP documents from 2011 to 2016. After developing a methodology for KAP temporal analysis, we reviewed provided documents against inclusion criteria; extracted and categorized data; created a WASH ...
Tópico(s): Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
2020 - IWA Publishing | Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development
Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Ellen Furnari, Rachel Julian,
This article discusses benefits and challenges of qualitative-interpretive research conducted in teams of outside (Northern) researchers and national (Southern) associates, in which the latter have considerable autonomy over research design and data generation. Reflecting on our collaboration with Burmese associates on arts-based workshops with violence-affected communities in Myanmar, we discuss how structures and dynamics of power and trust-building shaped the research process and data interpretation. ...
Tópico(s): Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
2020 - Taylor & Francis | Civil Wars
In few other countries than Myanmar have political context and tourism been so closely linked for more than fifty years. After the open situation of colonial times and the early days of independence, the military junta closed the country from 1962 to 1988, by using a severe visa policy. From 1988 to 2010 a new military regime began to open the country to attract foreign currencies and restore the image of the country on the international stage through a proactive policy and by organizing a Visit ...
Tópico(s): Cruise Tourism Development and Management
2017 - Chiang Mai University | Asian Journal of Tourism Research
Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière,
The Taunbyon Festival: the Central Rituals of the Naq Cult in Burma by Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière The article describes and analyses the yearly naq festival held during the month of August in the village of Taunbyon, north of Mandalay. The festival is part of a larger festival-cycle in central Burma connected to the possession cult of the 37 naq. It focus on two heroes, the Muslim Brothers, who were executed near Taunbyon on the order of King Anawratha (1044-1077), the founder of the first Burmese ...
Tópico(s): Cambodian History and Society
1992 - École française d'Extrême-Orient | Bulletin de l Ecole française d Extrême-Orient
This chapter examines ASEAN's role in the settlement of Myanmar's long-standing political conflict between the military government and the pro-democracy movement. This settlement was achieved by the military government gradually accommodating its political position to that of the pro-democracy Opposition. In this political shift of the Myanmar authorities, ASEAN played a crucial role by effectively influencing the former's domestic behaviour, despite the regional bloc's decades-long and firmly entrenched ...
Tópico(s): Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development
2015 - Springer Nature | Asia in transition
Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière,
RÉSUMÉ « Être épousée par un naq ». Les implications du mariage avec l'esprit dans le culte de possession birman (Myanmar) En Birmanie, les relations entre les possédés et les naq - les esprits auxquels le culte de possession est adressé - sont principalement conçues comme une relation de mariage entre une femme et un esprit masculin. Les esprits apparaissent comme les preneurs de femme, à l'inverse de ce qui se passe dans l'alliance de mariage qui fonde la relation chamanique. La relation reproduit celle ...
Tópico(s): Cambodian History and Society
2003 - Erudit Consortium | Anthropologie et Sociétés
Abstract There is a ‘micro–macro paradox’ in poverty measurement. In a number of countries, declines in income or consumption poverty found in nationally representative household survey data are at odds with people's perceptions of worsening poverty or deprivation. This article suggests a number of potential explanations for the paradox and presents the case of Myanmar where many of these same issues have recently played out. It is argued that there are plausible explanations that reconcile, in part, ...
Tópico(s): Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
2015 - Wiley | Journal of International Development
Cheng Ling Lim, Graham W. Prescott, Jose Don T. De Alban, Alan D. Ziegler, Edward L. Webb,
Political transitions often trigger substantial environmental changes. In particular, deforestation can result from the complex interplay among the components of a system-actors, institutions, and existing policies-adapting to new opportunities. A dynamic conceptual map of system components is particularly useful for systems in which multiple actors, each with different worldviews and motivations, may be simultaneously trying to alter different facets of the system, unaware of the impacts on other ...
Tópico(s): Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
2017 - Wiley | Conservation Biology
Urban flooding poses significant challenges to cities in Southeast Asia including loss of life, human displacement, and damaged infrastructure. As cities in the region grow and as the effects of climate change worsen, urban flooding is becoming more frequent and severe. This research situates flood governance in Bago City, Myanmar, in the literature on environmental governance and urban political ecology, investigating how local governance actors interpret the significance of flooding and how they ...
Tópico(s): Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
2019 - Springer International Publishing | The urban book series
Abstract Myanmar has been undergoing a process of post-socialist systemic transformation. During the reform period, its authorities used policy and institutional solutions of the East Asian development model in its post-socialist version, creating foundations for the post-socialist developmental state (PSDS). The concept of the PSDS combines features of a developmental state (DS) and systemic transformation from central planning to market. A developmental state (DS) is considered to be an ideological ...
Tópico(s): Socioeconomic Development in Asia
2018 - De Gruyter | Central European Economic Journal
Lina Alexandra, Marc Lanteigne,
Abstract This chapter examines the peacebuilding role of selected external actors, especially Indonesia and China, through a study of Myanmar. These two rising powers have played differing but prominent roles in peacebuilding. Indonesia represents an emerging actor in Myanmar diplomacy, both as a single player as well as a prominent member of ASEAN. The chapter shows how Indonesia has explicitly sought mainly to “share” its own experience of transition from semi-authoritarian rule and its handling ...
Tópico(s): Global Peace and Security Dynamics
2017 - Springer International Publishing | Rethinking peace and conflict studies
Thomas Bernhardt, Giles Dickenson-Jones, S Kanay De,
For decades, Myanmar’s economic system has been characterized by central planning and international isolation. Today, as the country undergoes a far-reaching political and economic transition, it is leaving this past behind. For Myanmar’s enterprises, and SMEs in particular, the opening of the country’s economy and the intensification of regional economic integration through the ASEAN Economic Community brings both opportunities and challenges. It is in this context that the present study investigates ...
Tópico(s): International Business and FDI
2017 - Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Southeast Asian Economies
Abstract This study is conducted using a legal and an in-text media study approach in order to deconstruct the discourse of land grabbing around the Monywa Copper Mine. Its aim is to analyze the discourse surrounding the resistance to expansion and to shed light on the current trends and any new opportunities that may exist in reforming Myanmar. To this end, we explore the limits of local resistance and draw lessons that can be applied to the increasing cases of land grabbing around the country. ...
Tópico(s): Cambodian History and Society
2014 - De Gruyter | The Law and Development Review
Through an analysis of Myanmar's history, together with the instability that arose in consequence of it, this paper argues that the international community needs to overcome its policy divide by embracing a combination of diplomatic pressure and targeted engagement designed to enhance, in the long-term, the security and stability, of Myanmar and its people. While the idea of even limited engagement may be repugnant to some, the analysis will show that the 'middle path' advocated by this paper represents ...
Tópico(s): Global Political and Social Dynamics
2006 - Springer Science+Business Media | East Asia
Restoration of democracy in Myanmar is one of the most important developments witnessed by Asia in the contemporary period. After a prolonged isolation, Myanmar has embarked on a path of political and economic reforms since 2011, paving the way for unlocking the country’s large potential. This paper presents the trade and connectivity links between India and Myanmar, and identifies the challenges and prospects.
Tópico(s): Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
2013 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Tópico(s): Cambodian History and Society
2012 - Brill | Asia Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law
This study explored the gaps between new kindergarten curriculum and engagement of personnel in real settings of Myanmar. We applied qualitative multi-level analysis through semi-structured interviews with 41 participants (curriculum team members, regional/township administrative staffs, school principals, in-service kindergarten teachers, instructors and students from education colleges and parents) who were participated in the curriculum distribution. The findings indicated that the mindsets of ...
Tópico(s): Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Education 3-13
Tópico(s): International Law and Human Rights
2022 - Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Southeast Asian affairs
Reconstruire la biographie d'une terre dans un village du centre du Myanmar permet d'analyser les rapports entre les relations foncières locales et les pratiques gouvernementales.Cette étude de cas se focalise sur une parcelle en particulier : détenue par un premier couple de villageois dans les années cinquante, puis confisquée et réattribuée par le gouvernement à un second couple, elle fut par la suite transformée en terre « vacante » et est aujourd'hui un terrain de football.Cependant, cette parcelle ...
Tópico(s): Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
2016 - EDP Sciences | Natures Sciences Sociétés
Mitsuko Shikada, U Than Myint, U Ko Ko Gyi, Y. NAKAGAWA, Rajib Shaw,
The Union of Myanmar is located in mainland Southeast Asia and shares borders with India, China, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Bangladesh. It is situated between the Himalayan ranges and the Bay of Bengal. Due to these diversified geographical features, Myanmar is highly vulnerable to different kinds of hazards, and has experienced many kinds of disasters in the past, according to the Hazard Profile of Myanmar (2009), such as cyclones, floods, storms, landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, droughts, and fires. ...
Tópico(s): Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
2012 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Community, environment and disaster risk management
Tópico(s): Global Peace and Security Dynamics
2018 - Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Southeast Asian affairs
Along the Salween River, water is governed at multiple—at times overlapping—scales with implications for authority and claims to access. In this chapter it is argued that the scales of water governance in Myanmar are currently being contested and how this constitutes a key battleground for future decision-making not only in terms of water governance, but also with implications for the peace negotiations and the federal structure of government that it is working towards.
Tópico(s): Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
2019 - Springer International Publishing | The anthropocene: Politik - economics - society - science