Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers
Insights from Myanmar and Beyond
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3207928 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jasnea Sarma (0000-0001-5758-9205, Department of Geography, University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland), Hilary Oliva Faxon (0000-0002-6977-8246, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley USA), K B Roberts (0000-0003-0063-0021, Department of Geography, York University Toronto Canada), Kirstine Roberts |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14650045.2022.2041220 |
| OpenAlex | W4214902318 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 102 |
Myanmar, a nation situated between India, China and Southeast Asia, has long histories of colonialism, violence, and resource extraction. This special issue introduction, written in the midst of Myanmar's 2021 military coup and the COVID-19 pandemic, offers two critical and feminist interventions – 'remaking' and 'living with' – to understand the contested and embodied political geographies of extractive resource frontiers in Myanmar. 'Remaking' focuses on the long roots of resource frontiers, underscoring the historical and spatial processes through which Myanmar's plural authorities have restructured diverse territories for accumulation and extraction from the pre-colonial period to the recent 'democratic transition'. 'Living with' resource frontiers bring attention to people's everyday lives, and why and how they adapt, resist, comply, suffer and profit from resource frontiers. In bringing together a diverse set of literatures with original empirical research, the articles in this collection offer analyses of Myanmar's pre-coup period that inform contemporary post-coup politics. Together, they demonstrate the material, affective, and embodied nature of resource frontiers as they are (re)made and lived with – in and beyond militarised spaces like Myanmar
China · Colonialism · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resource (disambiguation · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Cambodian History and Society · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Law
Geographies of war and violence II
Entangled exclusions
Extractivism unleashed
At the edge of the sword
Blackouts, Whitelists, and ‘Terrorist Others’
Development aid and domestic regional inequality
Mommy, Can You Read It for Me?”
The spectacular commodity and land rush in Myanmar
Cultivating re-existence
Labour Abroad as a Struggle for Land
Revolutionary countryside
Corridors, chokepoints and the contradictions of the Belt and Road Initiative
Ecologies of Resistance and the Politics of Environmental Violence
Environmental activism and authoritarianism in Myanmar
Running on Empty
Sovereign anxiety in Myanmar
Forced Fallow Fields
The Myanmar borderlands as a green energy transition ‘sacrifice zone
The making of a hydrofrontier
Unraveling the frontier
Telluric geographies of the means of violence. On alterity, weapons, and space at the margins
Powers of the Gun
Militarized borderlands
"Living With" Revolution
Refugee-Ness and Exploitation
Governing transit and irregular migration
A Thousand Fires
Drugs and extractivism
The Burma Delta
Continual Contestations at the China-Myanmar Border
Frontier Assemblages
In the Name of the Nation
Political Authority in Burma's Ethnic Minority States
The Art of Not Being Governed
Colonial Policy and Practice
Civil Society
‘Unintended Cities’ and Inoperative Violence. Housing Resistance in Yangon
“Ploughing the land five times”
Friction
Mongla and the borderland politics of Myanmar
Green Territoriality
Challenges and Resilience in Myanmar’s Urbanization
Introduction
Networks of Resilience
The Salween River as a transboundary commons
Unsettling feminist geopolitics
Gender, migration and intimate geopolitics
Rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar, Covid-19, and agrarian movements
Can Borders Speak to Each Other? The India–Bangladesh and Spain–Morocco Borders in Dialogue
Rural transformation in central Myanmar
China and the Accountability Politics of Hydropower Development
Fixed boundaries, fluid landscapes
The imperial weight of tea
Everyday violence
Alter-geopolitics
Mapping Chinese Rangoon
Forced Evictions as Urban Planning? Traces of Colonial Land Control Practices in Yangon, Myanmar
Ethnic Minority Women, Diversity, and Informal Participation in Peacebuilding in Myanmar
Breaking with the past? The politics of land restitution and the limits to restitutive justice in Myanmar
Tourism frontiers
Myanmar’s hidden-in-plain-sight social infrastructure
Knowing the Salween River
Assembling Drones, Activists and Oil Palms
Putting violent armed conflict in the center of the Salween hydropower debates
Are the Odds of Justice “Stacked” Against Them? Challenges and Opportunities for Securing Land Claims by Smallholder Farmers in Myanmar
Fortifying or Fragmenting the State? The Political Economy of the Opium/Heroin Trade in Shan State, Myanmar, 1988–2013
Challenging hydropower development in Myanmar (Burma)
War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar
The contested terrain of land governance reform in Myanmar
Insecurity, Dispossession, Depletion
Postcolonial Capitalism and the Politics of Dispossession
Assembling the Sino-Myanmar borderworld
Rethinking Land and Property in a “Transitioning” Myanmar
Rubber out of the ashes
Memories of Burmese Rohingya Refugees
Mobilising affinity ties
Drugs, insurgency and state-building in Burma
Interfaces and the Politics of Humanitarianism
Explaining Myanmar's regime transition
Shan Women Traders and Their Survival Strategies on the Myanmar–Thailand Borderland
Mind the gap
Mining, history, and the anti-state Wa
Scaling struggles over land and law
A Feminist Geopolitics
Reconfiguring Frontier Spaces
The spatialities of intersectional thinking
Non-inclusive ceasefires do not bring peace
The neoliberal borderscape
Fragmented sovereignty and the geopolitics of illicit drugs in northern Burma
Feminist Geopolitics
Teak & Lead
Inter-National Conspiracy? Speculating on the Myitsone Dam Controversy in China, Burma, Kachin, and a Displaced Village
More-Than-Human Infrastructural Violence and Infrastructural Justice
After the Rice Frontier
Laos and the making of a 'relational' resource frontier
Securing Urban Frontiers
How in Myanmar "National Races" Came to Surpass Citizenship and Exclude Rohingya
Property, Citizenship, and Invisible Dispossession in Myanmar's Urban Frontier
Feminist Geopolitics
Neoliberal Capitalism and Ethno-Territoriality in Highland Northeast India
In the Space between Exception and Integration
Mapping a Colonial Borderland
Tangled Lands
Enacting Border Governance through Multi-scalar Violence
Space of Compromise
Tactical dissonance
Of squatting amid capitalism on Yangon's industrial periphery
Enacting Morality on Shifting Moral Ground
Necroeconomics
Plantations and mines
In the law & on the land
Ceasefire capitalism
New frontiers of land control
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |