Overview
Approaches societal issues in India, Myanmar and Thailand as a shared phenomenon transcending borders and regions
Convinces that social transformations must begin at the individual to communal level and local to national level
Offers original scholarship on area studies, social development, identity politics and grassroots mobilisation
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Identity and Equality
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Grassroots, Communication and Development
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Keywords
- San Suu Kyi’s Political Philosophy
- New Normal in Myanmar
- Equality in Thai Politics
- Muslim Women in Modern India
- India's Citizenship Amendment Act
- Multicultural Thai-Muslim Identity
- Identity among the Tangkhul Nagas
- Politics of Space in Myanmar
- Media Health Literacy in Thailand
- Groups in Myanmar
- Women in India
- Women’s Initiatives in Myanmar
- Northeast India
- Challenges Facing Asia after Coronavirus
About this book
This book explores the multifaceted obstacles to social change that India, Myanmar and Thailand face, and ways to overcome them. With a collection of essays that identify common challenges and salient features affecting diverse communities, this volume examines topics from subnational and local perspectives across the peripheries. The book argues that identity-based divisions have created a system of oppression and political contention that have led to conflicts of different kinds, and hence serving as the common cause of different social issues. At the same time, such issues have created space for marginalized groups around the world to call for change. The volume recognizes that social transformation comes into being through an active process of deconstructing and reconstructing shared norms and ideas. The contents in this book are thus centered around two focuses: the impacts of identities and grassroots. Both of these aspects are at the heart of each country’s transformations towards democracy, peace, justice, and freedom. Under this framework, the chapters cover a diverse range of common issues, such as, minority grievances, gender inequality, ethnic identity, grassroots power in alliance-making towards community peace, recovery and resilience, digital freedom, democracy assistance and communication, and bridging multiple divides. As identity-based cleavages are daily lived experiences for individuals and communities, it requires grassroots initiatives and alliances as well as democratic communication to tackle obstacles at the root. Ultimately, the book convinces readers that social transformations must begin at the individual to communal level and local to national level.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Chosein Yamahata is a Professor of Global and Area Studies at the Graduate School of Policy Studies, Aichi Gakuin University in Japan. He also teaches the Master of Arts in Asia-Pacific Studies at Thammasat University, Thailand. Dr. Yamahata is the coordinator of the Academic Diplomacy Project in bridging interdisciplinary engaged studies reaching to locals and compiling thematic volumes to provoke a new feedback and disseminate sharable concerns. He co-edited Rights and security in India, Myanmar and Thailand (2020), and Social Transformations in India, Myanmar and Thailand: Volume I - Social Political and Ecological Perspectives (2021). Dr. Yamahata is also with the Faculty of Mass Communication at Chiang Mai University, Thailand as a Visiting Professor.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Transformations in India, Myanmar, and Thailand: Volume II
Book Subtitle: Identity and Grassroots for Democratic Progress
Editors: Chosein Yamahata
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7110-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-7109-8Published: 04 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-7112-8Published: 05 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-7110-4Published: 02 March 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 337
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development Studies, Political Science