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0000-0002-9535-3276
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Swedish Defence University
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-02-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-05-2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 05-10-2018
DOI: 10.1093/ISR/VIY063
Abstract: This article highlights the influence of emotions, affective experiences, and rumors on the construction of knowledge within research on conflict and in international politics, as well as within the research process itself. Drawing from fieldwork undertaken in a conflict zone in Myanmar, it suggests that academic knowledge production practices are informed both by the (violent) context in which research is undertaken and by the demands of the discipline to produce a scientifically accepted piece of research. It proposes that attention to emotions may facilitate strong objectivity (Harding 1992) by foregrounding the relationship between research participants, researchers, and the broader research (institutional and immediate) contexts. It introduces the term “rumors-as-affect” as a means to discuss how affective atmospheres or events in the research environments inform research. Three interview situations are presented, in which different emotional reactions are highlighted, focusing on “confusion and guilt” “seduction” and finally, “failure and ignorance.” These events illustrate how, in recognizing the role emotions and affective atmospheres play in research on conflict and in international politics (cf. Crawford 2014 Hutchison and Bleiker 2014 Ross 2013), researchers may begin to do justice to our representations of what is encountered in the field and how knowledge is constructed within the discipline.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-01-2021
Abstract: This article explores processes of place-making and space-making around the erection of the Aung San statue in Kayah state in Myanmar and draws out the competing visions of peace that are articulated through them. The raising of the statue unleashed widespread public protest, which was largely met by repression by the Myanmar authorities. Drawing on interviews, focus groups, and documentary sources, we argue that the statue constitutes an attempt to establish a post-war political order centred on the reassertion of government authority in ethnic minority areas and the creation of unity through the imposition of one national identity. However, the statue has also been appropriated as a key site for the articulation of alternative visions of peace and development. The conflict around the statue thereby makes visible ongoing struggles over the meaning of peace and shows how these post-war struggles are fought on and through space and place.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-02-2021
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-03-2020
DOI: 10.1057/S41287-020-00255-2
Abstract: This article explores the gendered dynamics of Myanmar’s post-war economic reforms through an analysis of women’s experiences of development in Kayah (Karenni) state. In Myanmar, ceasefires and a reduction of armed violence combined with state-driven economic liberalization reforms are conditioned by, but also contribute to remake, gendered relations of power, privilege and marginalization. While new land legislation and development projects have contributed to loss of land and livelihoods among rural populations in general, our study demonstrates that women living in conflict-affected border areas are disproportionally affected. Drawing on interviews and participant observation, we show how this is directly related to an overarching gendered political economy defined by legacies of conflict, discrimination and uneven processes of development, which positions women as particularly vulnerable to new forms of insecurity, dispossession and depletion generated by post-war economic transformations. We argue that the political and economic legacies of war in the state has produced a gendered ision of labor that positions women as responsible for unpaid and underpaid informal and social reproductive labor, weakens women’s access to land, and results in physical, material, and emotional depletion. Through this focus, our study adds to research on development and economic restructuring in post-war contexts in general, and to emergent scholarship on Myanmar’s economic reforms in particular.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-04-2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 09-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-02-2015
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 02-2022
DOI: 10.1332/251510821X16359327302509
Abstract: This article engages with emerging debates about feminist peace and uses this concept to assess the ability of the Women, Peace and Security agenda to achieve gender-just change. We advance a conception of feminist peace as political conditions that allow women affected by conflict to articulate their visions of change and influence the construction of post-war order. Applying this to a case study of Women, Peace and Security practice in Myanmar, we demonstrate that features of how international aid is organised, combined with the Myanmar government’s interest in excluding critical voices, limit the ability of Women, Peace and Security practices to contribute to feminist peace. This highlights the potential for illiberal post-war states to obstruct and co-opt the Women, Peace and Security agenda, and shows how the women most directly affected by armed conflict are often the least able to participate in, benefit from and inform Women, Peace and Security practices.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-10-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-06-2018
Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
Date: 31-12-2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 15-06-2023
DOI: 10.1093/JRS/FEAD030
Abstract: This article explores the political space of the border through the experiences of women activists from Myanmar, for whom the borderlands in Thailand have provided refuge as well as a conducive environment for political mobilization. At the same time, the border renders refugee activists insecure and precarious. Drawing on life history interviews, our analysis expands conceptualizations of the border as a dynamic political space by illustrating its dual capacity to both facilitate and constrain the political agency of refugee women from Myanmar. In particular, the spatial and temporal fluidity and in-betweenness of the border is shown to foster both repression and resistance. Exploring the character and salience of the border as a space for activism over time, we demonstrate how the political space of the border is relational, constituted in interaction with other political spaces, such as politics and governance in Myanmar, transnational activist networks, and the politics of international aid.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-08-2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-09-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-03-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-01-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-12-2016
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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