Rebel Politics analyzes the changing dynamics of the civil war in
Myanmar, one of the most entrenched armed conflicts in the world.
Since 2011, a national peace process has gone hand-in-hand with
escalating ethnic conflict. The Karen National Union (KNU),
previously known for its uncompromising stance against the central
government of Myanmar, became a leader in the peace process after
it signed a ceasefire in 2012. Meanwhile, the Kachin Independence
Organization (KIO) returned to the trenches in 2011 after its own
seventeen-year-long ceasefire broke down. To understand these
puzzling changes, Brenner conducted ethnographic fieldwork among
the KNU and KIO, analyzing the relations between rebel leaders,
their rank-and-file, and local communities in the context of wider
political and geopolitical transformations. Drawing on Political
Sociology, Rebel Politics explains how revolutionary elites
capture and lose legitimacy within their own movements and how
these internal contestations drive the strategies of rebellion in
unforeseen ways. Brenner presents a novel perspective that
contributes to our understanding of contemporary politics in
Southeast Asia, and to the study of conflict, peace and security,
by highlighting the hidden social dynamics and everyday practices
of political violence, ethnic conflict, rebel governance and
borderland politics.
General
| Imprint: |
Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2019 |
| Authors: |
David Brenner
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| Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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| Pages: |
162 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5017-4009-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-5017-4009-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781501740091 |
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