فضاهای همبستگی: فعالیت‌های کارن در مرز تایلند-میانمار

"Exploring notions of activism and space as narrated by Karen displaced persons and refugees in the Thai-Burma borderlands, this book looks beyond refugees as passive victims or a 'humanitarian case'. Instead, the book examines the active engagement the Karen have with their persecution and displacement and their subsequent emplacement in the borderlands. A key focus of the book is to look at this engagement in terms of spaces of solidarity - constructed through patterns of activism, paths of connectivity and processes of cultural recovery. The book also studies the spatial configuration of borderlands, examining the impact of cross-border activities and their inter-related nature"-- Provided by publisher Spaces of Solidarity 2 Contents 7 Illustrations 8 Preface 9 Acknowledgements 12 Abbreviations 14 Introduction—Spaces of Solidarity 18 Chapter 1—Movements across Space: The Thailand–Burma Borderlands 42 Chapter 2—From Buffer Zone to Friendship Bridge: The Contemporary Context of the Thailand–Burma Borderlands 59 Chapter 3—By the Shade of a Tree: Scales of Resistance, Patterns of Activism 84 Chapter 4—This Story is Not for Myself: Paths of Connectivity, Networks of Solidarity 105 Chapter 5—‘Symbolic Anchors of Community’: Processes of Cultural Recovery 132 Conclusion—The Space Between 161 References 170 Index 178