We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Stoking the Flames of Ethnic Politics? The Double Bind of Indigeneity in Post/Neo-colonial Myanmar.
- Authors
Morton, Micah
- Abstract
In this article, I discuss the challenges ethnically non-Burman activists in Myanmar encounter in articulating a politics of Indigeneity in the face of Myanmar's post/neo-colonial policies and discourse of national unity and equality. I highlight the limitations and potentials of efforts to reframe the global concept of Indigeneity in a non-European settler colonial context where the state dismisses that concept by declaring all its citizens "indigenous". I argue that Indigenous activists in Myanmar are caught in a particular kind of double bind that makes it difficult to make any claim of distinction as "Indigenous Peoples" relative to dominant ethnic Burmans.
- Subjects
MYANMAR; INDIGENOUS ethnic identity; POLITICS &; ethnic relations; FLAME; POLICY discourse; INDIGENOUS peoples
- Publication
SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 2023, Vol 38, Issue 3, p321
- ISSN
0217-9520
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1355/sj38-3a