The politics of Myanmar’s agrarian transformation

作者：Doi Ra, Sai Sam Kham, Mads Barbesgaard, Jennifer C. Franco, Pietje Vervest · 发表于：The Journal of Peasant Studies · 年份：2021 · DOI：10.1080/03066150.2021.1901689 · 被引用次数：25 · 研究领域：Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography、Cambodian History and Society、Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics

Myanmar is in a dangerous and uncertain moment following the military coup on 1 February 2021. The articles in this Special Forum provide timely contextual analysis. Written before the coup, the articles delve into the politics of agrarian transformation in the context of (what was then) an ongoing (but fragile) opening up of political space. This introduction outlines three themes that connect the articles and now also shed some light on what the future may hold: (1) the limited character of the 2010–2021 ‘democratic transition’; (2) the struggles around land and natural resources amidst a social reproduction crisis and (3) the responses of rural working peoples.