Myanmar
A Political Lexicon

This Element enables readers to come to terms with politics in post-dictatorship Myanmar.

Nick Cheesman (Author)

9781009454339, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 1 February 2024

82 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 1.1 cm, 0.27 kg

Myanmar: A Political Lexicon is a critical inquiry into how words animate politics. Across sixteen entries the lexicon stages dialogues about political speech and action in this country at the nexus of South, East and Southeast Asia. This Element offers readers venues in which to consider the history and contingency of ideas like power, race, patriarchy and revolution. Contention over these and other ideas, it shows, does not reflect the political world in which Myanmar's people live—it realizes it.

A political lexicon: how come?
1. Politics
2. Power
3. Dictatorship
4. Federalism
5. Sovereignty
6. Citizen
7. Race
8. Buddhism
9. Genocide
10. Impunity
11. Interrogation
12. Revolution
13. Reform
14. Development
15. Patriarchy
16. Freedom
References.

Subject Areas: Constitution: government & the state [JPHC]