TY - BOOK ID - 135431418 TI - Spaces of solidarity : Karen activism in the Thailand-Burma borderlands PY - 2020 SN - 1789207177 PB - New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, DB - UniCat KW - Karen (Southeast Asian people) KW - Social conditions. KW - Thailand KW - Burma KW - Ethnic relations KW - Political aspects. KW - Ethnic relations KW - Political aspects. KW - Sociology, Anthropology (General), Refugee and Migration Studies, Cultural Studies (General). UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135431418 AB - 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. ER -