Title Myanmar transformed? : people, places and politics / edited by Justine Chambers, Gerard McCarthy, Nicholas Farrelly, Chit Win

Published Singapore : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 333 pages) : illustrations Series Myanmar update series Contents Introduction / Justine Chambers and Gerard McCarthy -- Political update / Matthew Walton -- part I. People. Social protection in Myanmar : a key mechanism for political legitimacy / Yaw Bawm Mangshang and Mike Griffiths -- Documenting Myanmar's social transformation / Samuel Pursch, Andrea Woodhouse, Michael Woolcock and Matthew Zurstrassen -- Health as a catalyst for national reconciliation / Si Thura and Tim Schroeder -- part II. Places. advocacy organisations and special economic zones in Myanmar / Pyae Phyo Maung and Tamas Wells -- Change and continuity : capacity, coordination and natural resources in Myanmar's periphery / Giuseppe Gabusi -- Myanmar's mechanization revolution : evidence of emerging structural transformation? / Ben Belton & Myat Thida Win -- Explaining Naypyitaw under the National League for Democracy / Nicholas Farrelly -- part III. Politics. Partnership in politics : the Tatmadaw and the NLD in Myanmar since 2016 / Maung Aung Myo -- Forming an inclusive national identity in Myanmar : The voices of Mon People / Cecile Medaile -- From ceasefire to dialogue : the problem of 'all inclusiveness' in Myanmar's Stalled peace process / Lwin Cho Latt, Ben Hillman, Marlar Aung and Khin Sanda Myint -- The securitization of the Rohingya / Kyaw Zeyar Win Summary The triumph of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy at the 2015 election was supposed to mark the consolidation of a reformist trajectory for Myanmar society. What has followed has not proved so straightforward. This book takes stock of the mutations, continuities and fractures at the heart of today's political and economic transformations. We ask: What has changed under a democratically elected government? Where are the obstacles to reform? And is there scope to foster a more prosperous and inclusive Myanmar? With the peace process faltering, over 1 million people displaced by recent violence, and ongoing army dominance in key areas of decision-making, the chapters in this volume identify areas of possible reform within the constraints of Myanmar's hybrid civil-military governance arrangements. This latest volume in the Myanmar Update Series from the Australian National University continues a long tradition of intense, critical engagement with political, economic and social questions in one of Southeast Asia's most complicated countries. At a time of great uncertainty and anxiety, the 13 chapters of Myanmar Transformed? offer new and alternative ways to understand Myanmar and its people Notes Papers originally presented to the Myanmar Update Conference 2017 held at the Australian National University, Canberra, from 17 to 18 February 2017 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Project MUSE; title from digital cover (viewed on December 21, 2018) Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political ideologies -- Democracy. Economic history Politics and government Social conditions SUBJECT Burma -- Economic conditions -- Congresses Burma -- Social conditions -- Congresses Burma -- Politics and government -- 21st century -- Congresses Subject Burma Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Chit Win, editor Farrelly, Nicholas, 1982- editor. McCarthy, Gerard, editor Chambers, Justine, editor Australian National University, host institution. Myanmar Update Conference (2017 : Canberra, Australia) author ISBN 9789814818551 9814818550

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