Francis Wade

Myanmar's Enemy Within

Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other'

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Produktbeschreibung

As the darkness of military rule recedes, deep and violent fissures have opened between Myanmar's religious communities.

Produktdetails

• Asian Arguments
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781786995773
• ISBN-10: 1786995778
• Artikelnr.: 54616125

Autorenporträt

Francis Wade is a freelance journalist and analyst specialising in Burma and Southeast Asia. His work has been published in The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, Asia Times Online, Foreign Policy, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He previously worked as an editor and reporter for the Democratic Voice of Burma, an exiled Burmese news organization based in Thailand.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue 1. A Popular Massacre: Rallying to a Lethal Cause 2. The First
Wave: Widening the Communal Divide in Western Myanmar 3. Songs of Whose
Soil? Britain and the Birth of a Fractured Nation 4. The Art of Belonging:
A Peculiar Transaction in Yangon 5. Us and Them: Making Identities,
Manipulating Divides 6. Ruling the Unruly: Social Engineering and the
Village of Prisoners 7. 2012: The Making of a Catastrophe 8. At First Light
the Darkness Fell: Myanmar's Democratic Experiment Falters 9. 'We Came Down
from the Sky': The Buddhist Preachers of Hate 10. Apartheid State: Camps,
Ghettos and the New Architecture of Control 11. U Maung Soe: An Outcast in
Disguise 12. In the Old Cinema Hut: A Delicate Thread is Cut 13.
Bystanders: Quiet Diplomacy and a 'Glaringly Dysfunctional' UN 14. Rebirth:
After the Killings