| Description |
1 online resource : map |
| Series |
Asian arguments |
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Asian arguments.
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| Contents |
Prologue -- 1. The first wave: the murder, the smoke and the ruins -- 2. Sons of whose soil? Britain and the birth of a fractured nation -- 3. The art of belonging: a peculiar transaction in Yangon -- 4. Us and them: making identities, manipulating divides -- 5. Ruling the unruly: social engineering and the village of prisoners -- 6. 2012: season of violence -- 7. At first light the darkness fell: Myanmar's democratic experiment falters -- 8. "We came down from the sky": the Buddhist preachers of hate -- 9. Apartheid state: camps, ghettos and the new architecture of control -- 10. U Maung Soe: an outcast in disguise -- 11. In the old cinema hut: fear, hope and the heroes we forget -- Notes |
| Summary |
Explores the growing divide between Myanmar's Buddhist and Muslim communities, and questions why some of the most respected and articulate voices for democracy in the country have become complicit in the persecution of its religious minorities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 31, 2017) |
| Subject |
Islam and state -- Burma
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Buddhism and state -- Burma
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Islam -- Relations -- Buddhism.
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Buddhism -- Relations -- Islam.
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Reportage & collected journalism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
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Buddhism
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Buddhism and state
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Interfaith relations
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Islam
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Islam and state
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Burma
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781783605293 |
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1783605294 |
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9781783605309 |
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1783605308 |
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9781783605316 |
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1783605316 |
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