Myanmar's enemy within: Buddhist violence and the making of a Muslim "Other"
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
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| Medienart: | Druck Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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London, UK
ZED
[2017]
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| In: | Jahr: 2017 |
| Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift: | Asian arguments
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| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Birma
/ Buddhismus
/ Gewalt
/ Muslim
B Birma / Buddhismus / Islam / Feindschaft |
| RelBib Classification: | BJ Islam BL Buddhismus KBM Asien |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Buddhism and state
B Burma Social conditions 1988- B Burma History 1988- B Islam and state (Burma) B Burma Politics and government 1988- B Buddhism Relations Islam B Buddhism and state (Burma) B Islam and state B Islam Relations Buddhism |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 The first wave: the murder, the smoke and the ruins -- Sons of whose soil? Britain and the birth of a fractured nation -- The art of belonging: a peculiar transaction in Yangon -- Us and them: making identities, manipulating divides -- Ruling the unruly: social engineering and the village of prisoners -- 2012: season of violence -- At first light the darkness fell: Myanmar's democratic experiment falters -- "We came down from the sky": the Buddhist preachers of hate -- Apartheid state: camps, ghettos and the new architecture of control -- U Maung Soe: an outcast in disguise -- In the old cinema hut: fear, hope and the heroes we forget |
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| ISBN: | 1783605278 |