Being and Becoming Kachin Histories Beyond the State in the Borderworlds of Burma

Ethnic conflict has troubled the Kachin region of Burma since 1961. The area is of increasing contemporary interest because it borders India and China and it has the potential to affect Burma's reintegration into mainstream geopolitics. The book examines the conflict within a historical context of marginalisation in the region.

About the author

Mandy Sadan, SOAS University of London.

Summary

Ethnic conflict has troubled the Kachin region of Burma since 1961. The area is of increasing contemporary interest because it borders India and China and it has the potential to affect Burma's reintegration into mainstream geopolitics. The book examines the conflict within a historical context of marginalisation in the region.

Additional text

Over the past 15 years, Mandy Sadan has single-handedly launched new historical scholarship on the Kachin people ... The much-anticipated monograph, Being and Becoming Kachin Histories Beyond the State in the Borderworlds of Burma, brings together the fruits of her scholarship, including a surprisingly large amount of findings that have not been published before. This publication is certainly a cause for celebration ... Students of Kachin studies will be indebted to this book for decades to come.

Product details

• Authors: Mandy Sadan, Sadan Mandy, Mandy (Soas University of London) Sadan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 26.09.2013
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9780197265550
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726555-0
• Pages: 470
• Series: British Academy Monographs; British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs; British Academy Postdoctoral F
• Subjects: Myanmar, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Asian History, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Myanmar (Burma), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), National liberation and independence, Armed Conflict, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General