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Surviving the State: Land and Democracy in Myanmar

Surviving the State: Land and Democracy in Myanmar

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Series: Global and Insurgent Legalities

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1478038845
ISBN13: 9781478038849
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jul 28 2026
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Myanmar's Kalay Valley, a rice-growing region near the Indian border, farmers have long been subject to violence and neglect. Surviving the State considers how these farmers' everyday, land-based practices enable them to endure successive authoritarian regimes. Through robust ethnography, Hilary Oliva Faxon describes how Burman and Chin smallholders treat land not only as a source of food, but also as a living thing entwined with the families it supports. She considers the centrality of land both to state efforts at control and to inhabitants' ability to articulate claims, looking at how locals evade, obfuscate, and reinvent legal boundaries in the face of seizures, redistribution, and revolution. Providing a feminist ethnography of land politics, Surviving the State is a testament to the daily work of survival in the face of political violence.

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