Rights Refused : Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar

Elliott Prasse-Freeman

ISBN 10: 1503636712 / ISBN 13: 9781503636712

Edité par Stanford University Press Sep 2023, 2023

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Neuware - '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 activism and grassroots sentiments reveals a significant schism between elite human rights cosmopolitans and subaltern Burmese subjects maneuvering under brutal and negligent governance. These divergences became starkly apparent during Burma's much-lauded, decade-long 'transition' from military rule that began in 2011, a period of massive and rapid political and economic change that saw an explosion of activism around social causes like education reform, environmental protection, and land reclamation. As one Burmese activist remarked: 'We are in the time of protests.' How 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 the coup. 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'--.

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• Titre: Rights Refused : Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar
• Éditeur: Stanford University Press Sep 2023
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1503636712
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781503636712
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 228 L x 149 H x 21 P (en millimètres) 228 millimètres de largeur par 149 millimètres de hauteur par 21 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 544 grammes

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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.

À propos de l?auteur

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