The Borderlands Revisited
In: Latin American research review, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 261-265
ISSN: 1542-4278
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In: Latin American research review, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 261-265
ISSN: 1542-4278
In: The Middle East journal, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 165
ISSN: 0026-3141
In: The Expansion of Elizabethan England, S. 45-89
In: Image v.129
Cover -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- Part 1: "Borderland Schengen" -- 2. Coordinates -- 3. The Transnational Social Space of "Borderland Schengen" -- Part 2: Borderland Visualities -- 4. The Visuality and Mediality of Documentary Film -- 5. Representational and Performative Practices -- 6. Attempts of Visibility and Recognition -- 7. Transnational Social Spaces - Transitional Social Spaces -- 8. Conclusion: Borderland Counter-Topographies -- Filmography -- Bibliography
In: Index on censorship, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 64-71
ISSN: 1746-6067
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 44, Heft 2, S. 297
ISSN: 1715-3379
In: NACLA Report on the Americas, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 19-24
ISSN: 2471-2620
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 401
ISSN: 1715-3379
In: Journal of borderlands studies, Band 34, Heft 5, S. 649-664
ISSN: 2159-1229
In: Journal of contemporary China, Band 32, Heft 143, S. 561-583
ISSN: 1469-9400
This article develops the concept of brokerage to analyse the systems of borderland governance that have underpinned processes of state formation and capitalist development in the conflict-affected Myanmar-China borderland region of northern Shan State since the late 1980s. It focuses on the brokerage arrangements that have developed between the Myanmar Army and local militias, and how the illegal drug trade has become integral to these systems of brokered rule. This article draws particular attention to the inherent tensions and contradictions surrounding brokerage. In the short term, deploying militias as borderland brokers has provided an expedient mechanism through which the Myanmar Army has sought to extend and embed state authority, and has also provided the stability and coercive muscle needed to attract capital, expand trade, and intensify resource extraction. However, at the same time, militias have sought to use their position as brokers to aggrandise their own power and counter the extension of central state control. In the longer term, brokerage arrangements have thus had the effect of reinvigorating systems of strongman borderland governance, further fragmenting the means of violence and the proliferation of drugs and disempowering non-militarised forms of political negotiation. (J Contemp China / GIGA)
World Affairs Online
This article develops the concept of brokerage to analyse the systems of borderland governance that have underpinned processes of state formation and capitalist development in the conflict-affected Myanmar-China borderland region of northern Shan State since the late 1980s. It focuses on the brokerage arrangements that have developed between the Myanmar Army and local militias, and how the illegal drug trade has become integral to these systems of brokered rule. This article draws particular attention to the inherent tensions and contradictions surrounding brokerage. In the short term, deploying militias as borderland brokers has provided an expedient mechanism through which the Myanmar Army has sought to extend and embed state authority, and has also provided the stability and coercive muscle needed to attract capital, expand trade, and intensify resource extraction. However, at the same time, militias have sought to use their position as brokers to aggrandise their own power and counter the extension of central state control. In the longer term, brokerage arrangements have thus had the effect of reinvigorating systems of strongman borderland governance, further fragmenting the means of violence and the proliferation of drugs and disempowering non-militarised forms of political negotiation.
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In: Globalizations, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 173-187
ISSN: 1474-774X