At the margins of a "development darling": civil society, territory, and development in Karen State, Myanmar

Thesis

This thesis explains development actors’ role in making territory in the postcolonial world. From the vantage point of Karen State, Myanmar, where civil war has been a feature of everyday life for seventy years, I examine how partnerships between development actors and civil society actors transform socio- spatial relations. Here, civil society actors navigate the confluence of three processes that came to a head in the past decade: the adoption of civil society partnerships as development...

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Authors: Loong, S

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: development; war; postcolonial; ethnic conflict; rebel governance; ethnography; ethnicity; conflict; territory; Karen State; civil society; civil war; Myanmar; political geography
• Subjects: Political geography; Human geography; Development; Southeast Asia