Refuge and Emplacement through Buddhism
Karen Refugees and Religious Practices in a Northwestern Border Town of Thailand
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2174682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Prasert Rangkla (Thammasat University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 8-22 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canberra Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14442213.2012.743581 |
| OpenAlex | W1971617738 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
Recent discussions in refugee studies question the stereotypical representation of refugees as absolute victims and reveal the dual aspects of refugees: displacement and emplacement. Yet the academic field pays little attention to how refugees reconstitute a sense of belonging in situations of forced mobility through religious and ritual practices. In studying a group of Buddhist Karen refugees in Mae Sot valley on the Thailand-Myanmar border area, I explore how the Karen refugees negotiate a monastery-founding project during their exile and how religious belief and practices facilitate the Karen orientation to place. The paper argues that the web of connections constituting the Mae Sot borderlands have created a culturally accommodating space that enables the Karen to maintain continuity in religious practice, and that Buddhist practices in a familiar tradition help them to reproduce locality and engender a sense of place and belonging in a new social environment
Archaeology · Buddhism · Geography · Negotiation · Political science · Refugee · Representation (politics) · Social science · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Refugees and Exile
Nation, state and identity at international borders
Modernity at large
Remaking Home
Revisiting the Debate on People, Place, Identity and Displacement
Localising the Universal
Waiting for a righteous ruler
Ethnic Politics in Burma
Pagodas and Prophets
Redefining the Boundaries of Belonging
Stamping the Earth with the Name of Allah
Beyond the ethnic lens
Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North-East Thailand
Economy in Motion
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |