Along the integral margin uneven development in a Myanmar squatter settlement

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"This book is an ethnographic study of informal housing and labor among residents of a squatter settlement on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar's former capital, based on research conducted from 2016 to 2019"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Campbell, Stephen (Anthropologist) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press 2022
Subjects:
2000-2099
Squatter settlements > Burma > Social conditions > 21st century.
Squatter settlements > Burma > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Precarious employment > Burma.
Capitalism > Social aspects > Burma > History > 21st century.
Bidonvilles > Birmanie > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
Bidonvilles > Birmanie > Conditions économiques > 21e siècle.
Travail précaire > Birmanie.
Capitalism > Social aspects
Precarious employment
HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia.
Burma
Ethnographies
History
Ethnographies.
Études ethnographiques.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: modernity's integral margins
  • A deeper history of Myanmar's "transition"
  • From rural dispossession to precarious urbanization
  • Squatting amid capitalism and the contradictions thereof
  • Debt collection as labor discipline
  • The integral informality of marginalization workers
  • Unfreedoms of capitalism
  • Squatter self-organization and collective struggle
  • Conclusion: the margins at the heart of modernity

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