Re-examining the centrality of ethnic Identity to the Kachin conflict Laoutides, Constantinos and Ware, Anthony 2016, Re-examining the centrality of ethnic Identity to the Kachin conflict. In Cheesman, Nick and Farrelly, Nicholas (ed), Conflict in Myanmar War, Politics, Religion, ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, Malaysia, pp.47-66. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Re-examining the centrality of ethnic Identity to the Kachin conflict Author(s) Laoutides, Constantinos orcid.org/0000-0002-1213-5960 Ware, Anthony orcid.org/0000-0002-3203-5908 Title of book Conflict in Myanmar War, Politics, Religion Editor(s) Cheesman, Nick Farrelly, Nicholas Publication date 2016 Series Myanmar update series Chapter number 3 Total chapters 17 Start page 47 End page 66 Total pages 20 Publisher ISEAS Publishing Place of Publication Singapore, Malaysia Keyword(s) political science Summary This paper seeks to reframe the conventional characterization of Kachin conflict which is anchored in ethnicity. Based on a series of interviews the paper focuses on how power is framed and contested in relation to processes of identification. Identity is defined as the politicised manifestation of ideological underpinnings associated with the distribution and management of political power. Thus the paper draws together field research conducted by the authors in late 2014, with theoretical discussion around key ideas often employed in analysing these conflicts: 'ethnicity', 'national race', 'identity', 'territory' and 'resource' conflict. The paper concludes that 'ethnicity' has become the outward manifestation of a conflict that is actually far more deeply underpinned by issues of political rights and distribution, state power versus decentralisation, the quest for equality and freedom, and the question of who constitute the demos in Myanmar’s democracy. ISBN 9814695866 9789814695862 Language eng Field of Research 160602 Citizenship Socio Economic Objective 940201 Civics and Citizenship HERDC Research category B1 Book chapter ERA Research output type B Book chapter Copyright notice ©2016, ISEAS Publishing Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30088392 Document type: Book Chapter Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Humanities and Social Sciences ERA Postprints 2018 ERA Submission Related Links Link Description   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 01 Nov 2016, 11:30:31 EST Tue, 01 Nov 2016, 11:31:16 EST Wed, 02 Nov 2016, 04:00:47 EST Thu, 03 Nov 2016, 11:16:25 EST Wed, 16 Nov 2016, 05:05:15 EST Thu, 24 Nov 2016, 13:47:08 EST Thu, 24 Nov 2016, 13:49:39 EST Thu, 24 Nov 2016, 13:50:12 EST Thu, 15 Mar 2018, 13:43:07 EST Thu, 15 Mar 2018, 13:45:29 EST Fri, 16 Mar 2018, 08:19:19 EST Mon, 09 Apr 2018, 15:18:14 EST Mon, 09 Apr 2018, 15:19:05 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 481 Abstract Views, 19 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 01 Nov 2016, 11:31:16 EST

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