Nationalism as Political Paranoia in Burma: An Essay on the Historical Practice of Power

by Mikael Gravers

Overview

This study probes the complex relationship between nationalism, violence and Buddhism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Burma. Gravers' study brings us to present-day Burma and the struggle by Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi for a new Burmese identity.
The present volume is a substantially revised and expanded version of the study originally published by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135798154
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/31/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	781 KB

About the Author

Mikael Gravers

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 THE COLONIAL CLUB: ‘NATIVES NOT ADMITTED!’; Chapter 2 THE VIOLENT ‘PACIFICATION’ OF BURMA; Chapter 3 BUDDHIST COSMOLOGY AND POLITICAL POWER; Chapter 4 THE COLONISATION OF BURMESE IDENTITY; Chapter 5 BUDDHISM, XENOPHOBIA AND REBELLION IN THE 1930S; Chapter 6 TWO VERSIONS OF NATIONALISM: UNION STATE OR ETHNICISM?; Chapter 7 BUDDHISM AND MILITARY POWER: TWO DIFFERENT STRATEGIES—TWO DIFFERENT THAKINS; Chapter 8 NE WIN'S CLUB; Chapter 9 AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S Strategy; Chapter 10 NATIONALISM AS THE PRACTICE OF POWER; Chapter 11 THE RULES OF THE MYANMAR CLUB SINCE 1993; Chapter 12 BUDDHISM AND THE RELIGIOUS DIVIDE AMONG THE KAREN; Chapter 13 U THUZANA AND VEGAN BUDDHISM; Chapter 14 BUDDHISM, PROPHECIES AND REBELLION; Chapter 15 AUTOCRACY AND NATIONALISM; Chapter 16 HISTORICISM, HISTORICAL MEMORY AND POWER; Chapter 17 A FINAL WORD—BUT NO CONCLUSION EPILOGUE; APPENDIX 1: THEORETICAL CONCEPTS; APPENDIX 2: KAREN ORGANISATIONS; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;