Spaces of Solidarity
Author | : Rachel Sharples |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2020-05-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781789207170 |
ISBN-13 | : 1789207177 |
Rating | : 4/5 (177 Downloads) |
Download or read book Spaces of Solidarity written by Rachel Sharples and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring notions of activism and space as narrated by Karen displaced persons and refugees in the Thai-Burma borderlands, this book looks beyond refugees as passive victims or a ‘humanitarian case’. Instead, the book examines the active engagement the Karen have with their persecution and displacement and their subsequent emplacement in the borderlands. A key focus of the book is to look at this engagement in terms of spaces of solidarity – constructed through patterns of activism, paths of connectivity and processes of cultural recovery. The book also studies the spatial configuration of borderlands, examining the impact of cross-border activities and their inter-related nature.