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Spaces of Solidarity: Karen Activism in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands

Spaces of Solidarity: Karen Activism in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands

Sharples, Rachel

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 1789207169
ISBN13: 9781789207163
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: May 1 2020
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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