Movements Across Space: A Conceptual Framework for the Thai–Burma Borderlands

Rachel Sharples

Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2020, vol. 35, issue 5, 693-708

Abstract: The Thai–Burma borderlands is a site of political and social transformation. This transformation is informed by an interchange that occurs across the national border—people, ideas, culture, information, resources, and identity. This articulation of a borderlands space challenges the geo-political narrative of the state and the bounded nature of state mechanisms. In particular, the tendency of states to treat borders as static and stable and to use borders as a means of determining belonging and not belonging. Instead, the Thai–Burma borderlands is a microcosm of human society, defined by processes of contestation and transformation that give alternative meanings to the space.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1438915

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