Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar - Couverture souple

Prasse-Freeman, Elliott

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1503636712 ISBN 13 : 9781503636712

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2023

Synopsis

For decades, the outside world mostly knew Myanmar as the site of a valiant human rights struggle against an oppressive military regime, predominantly through the figure of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. And yet, a closer look at Burmese grassroots sentiments reveals a significant schism between elite human rights cosmopolitans and subaltern Burmese subjects maneuvering under brutal and negligent governance. While elites have endorsed human rights logics, subalterns are ambivalent, often going so far as to refuse rights themselves, seeing in them no more than empty promises. Such alternative perspectives became apparent during Burma's much-lauded decade-long "transition" from military rule that began in 2011, a period of massive change that saw an explosion of political and social activism.

How then do people conduct politics when they lack the legally and symbolically stabilizing force of "rights" to guarantee their incursions against injustice? In this book, Elliott Prasse-Freeman documents grassroots political activists who advocate for workers and peasants across Burma, covering not only the so-called "democratic transition" from 2011-2021, but also the February 2021 military coup that ended that experiment and the ongoing mass uprising against it. Taking the reader from protest camps, to flop houses, to prisons, and presenting practices as varied as courtroom immolation, occult cursing ceremonies, and land reoccupations, Rights Refused shows how Burmese subaltern politics compel us to reconsider how rights frameworks operate everywhere.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elliott Prasse-Freeman is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1503636712
• ISBN 13: 9781503636712
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 366
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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