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Author | : Marie-Carine Lall |
Publisher | : Hurst & Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781849045803 |
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Marie Lall's book seeks to uncover and explain the recent political and economic reforms implemented in post-military Myanmar, focusing on key turning-points that ushered in the current transformation program, particularly those affecting education, NGOs and social justice. She maps the main reform priorities, explaining how they are interconnected, and what has been achieved, in the first tentative steps towards 'democratization', under the umbrella of President Thein Sein's controlled but more inclusive governance. Beyond the building site that is now Yangon, burgeoning urban car ownership and ubiquitous mobile phone use, there remains a widening gap, sharpened by inflation, between rural and urban Myanmar, at social, economic and political levels. Peasants are losing their livelihoods to development schemes that are being created to bring in foreign investment, and social justice is largely absent from the country's reform agenda. While the country has changed significantly, has the West been gulled into mistaking 'discipline-flourishing democracy' for true participatory democracy? Will the hopes of Aung San Suu Kyi coming to power in Yangon at the head of the NLD through an open and fair ballot ever be realized? These and other questions are scrutinized in this shrewd analysis of post-military Myanmar.
Author | : Marie Lall |
Publisher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2020-11-02 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1787353699 |
Download Myanmar’s Education Reforms Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book reviews the state of education in Myanmar over the past decade and a half as the country is undergoing profound albeit incomplete transformation. Set within the context of Myanmar’s peace process and the wider reforms since 2012, Marie Lall’s analysis of education policy and practice serves as a case study on how the reform programme has evolved. Drawing on over 15 years of field research carried out across Myanmar, the book offers a cohesive inquiry into government and non-government education sectors, the reform process, and how the transition has played out across schools, universities and wider society. It casts scrutiny on changes in basic education, the alternative monastic education, higher education and teacher education, and engages with issues of ethnic education and the debate on the role of language and the local curriculum as part of the peace process. In so doing, it gives voice to those most affected by the changing landscape of Myanmar’s education and wider reform process: the students and parents of all ethnic backgrounds, teachers, teacher trainees and university staff that are rarely heard.
Author | : LALL |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781787354043 |
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Author | : LALL |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020-11-02 |
Genre | : Burma |
ISBN | : 9781787353879 |
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Author | : Justine Chambers |
Publisher | : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2020-10-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9814881058 |
Download Living with Myanmar Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Since 2011 Myanmar has experienced many changes to its social, political and economic landscape. The formation of a new government in 2016, led by the National League for Democracy, was a crucially important milestone in the country’s transition to a more inclusive form of governance. And yet, for many people everyday struggles remain unchanged, and have often worsened in recent years. Key economic, social and political reforms are stalled, conflict persists and longstanding issues of citizenship and belonging remain. The wide-ranging, myriad and multiple challenges of Living with Myanmar is the subject of this volume. Following the Myanmar Update series tradition, each of the authors offers a different perspective on the sociopolitical and economic mutations occurring in the country and the challenges that still remain. The book is divided into six sections and covers critical issues ranging from gender equality and identity politics, to agrarian reform and the representative role of parliament. Collectively, these voices raise key questions concerning the institutional legacies of military rule and their ongoing role in subverting the country’s reform process. However, they also offer insights into the creative and productive ways that Myanmar’s activists, civil society, parliamentarians, bureaucrats and everyday people attempt to engage with and reform those legacies.
Author | : Chenyang Li |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2016-06-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9814759929 |
Download Myanmar: Reintegrating Into The International Community Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Located at the junction of East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, Myanmar is one of the most important countries in the world's geopolitical landscape. Its ongoing political and economic reforms arouse growing concern from the international community, especially great powers like the US, Japan, India and China. Will the demostic reform bring Myanmar back to the international community? How and to which extent does the demostic reform change Myanmar's relations with other countries?This book is based on papers presented at an international conference on Myanmar held at the Institute of Myanmar Studies in Yunnan University, China in 2014. Based on their long-term observation and studies, experts from China, Laos, Myanmar, Germany, Singapore and the US share their opinions on Myanmar's domestic reform and foreign relations, as well as the current situation and future prospect. This book contributes to better understanding of Myanmar in its dramatic political and social transition.
Author | : Nick Cheesman |
Publisher | : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9814414166 |
Download Myanmar's Transition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With the world watching closely, Myanmar began a process of political, administrative and institutional transition from 30 January 2011. After convening the parliament, elected in November 2010, the former military regime transferred power to a new government headed by former Prime Minister (and retired general), U Thein Sein. With parliamentary processes restored in Myanmar's new capital of Naypyitaw, Thein Sein's government announced a wide-ranging reform agenda, and began releasing political prisoners and easing press censorship. Pivotal meetings between Thein Sein and Aung San Suu Kyi led to amendment of the Election Law and the National League for Democracy contesting by-elections in April 2012. The 2011 Myanmar/Burma update conference considered the openings offered by these political changes and media reforms and the potential opportunities for international assistance. Obstacles covered include impediments to the rule of law, the continuation of human rights abuses, the impunity of the Army, and the failure to end ethnic insurgency.
Author | : Renaud Egreteau |
Publisher | : NUS Press |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2015-09-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9971698668 |
Download Metamorphosis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With a young population of more than 52 million, an ambitious roadmap for political reform, and on the cusp of rapid economic development, since 2010 the world’s attention has been drawn to Myanmar or Burma. But underlying recent political transitions are other wrenching social changes and shocks, a set of transformations less clearly mapped out. Relations between ethnic and religious groups, in the context of Burma’s political model of a state composed of ethnic groups, are a particularly important “unsolved equation”. The editors use the notion of metamorphosis to look at Myanmar today and tomorrow—a term that accommodates linear change, stubborn persistence and the possibility of dramatic transformation. Divided into four sections, on politics, identity and ethnic relations, social change in fields like education and medicine, and the evolutions of religious institutions, the volume takes a broad view, combining an anthropological approach with views from political scientists and historians. This volume is an essential guide to the political and social challenges ahead for Myanmar.
Author | : Ian Holliday |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9888083740 |
Download Burma Redux Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Myanmar 50 years of oppressive military rule have triggered sporadic mass protest and entrenched ethnic revolt. In these bleak circumstances, what can local people do to challenge authoritarianism? This book explores this question and much more.
Author | : Ye Htut |
Publisher | : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2019-09-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9814843571 |
Download Myanmar’s Political Transition and Lost Opportunities (2010–2016) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is about the politics of Myanmar under the reformist president Thein Sein. After taking office in March 2011, Thein Sein initiated the bloodless Myanmar Spring. He was able to transform Myanmar into a more transparent and dynamic society, bring Aung San Suu Kyi and other opposition activists into the political process, initiate a peace process with the ethnic armed organizations, reintegrate Myanmar into the international community after five decades of isolation, and, most importantly, for the first time since the country regained independence in 1948, he was able to enact the peaceful transfer of power from one elected government to another. But Thein Sein also lost opportunities to deliver what the people anticipated, and he failed to bring his USDP party to victory in the 2015 election. This book is not about the successes of the Thein Sein administration. Rather, it examines the reasons behind the lost opportunities in the transition to democracy. It draws on the author’s experiences as a member of Thein Sein’s cabinet as well as on extensive interviews with other cabinet members and politicians involved in the crucial events that took place between 2010 and 2016. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in this critical period of change for Myanmar.