Spaces of Solidarity : : Karen Activism in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands / / Rachel Sharples.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Sharples, Rachel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (182 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; List of Abbreviations --; Introduction. Spaces of Solidarity --; Chapter 1. Movements across Space --; Chapter 2. From Buffer Zone to Friendship Bridge --; Chapter 3. By the Shade of a Tree --; Chapter 4. This Story Is Not for Myself --; Chapter 5. ‘Symbolic Anchors of Community’ --; Conclusion. The Space Between --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789207170; 9783110997699
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789207170?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Rachel Sharples.

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.