Social Transformations in India, Myanmar, and Thailand: Volume I

“This book focuses on the different challenges and opportunities for social transformation in India, Myanmar and Thailand, by centering communities and individuals as the main drivers of change. In doing so, it includes discussions on a wide array of issues including women’s empowerment and political participation, ethno-religious tensions, plurilingualism, education reform, community-based healthcare, climate change, disaster management, ecological systems, and vulnerability reduction.

Two core foundations are introduced for ensuring broader transformations. The first is the academic diplomacy project – a framework for an engaged academic enquiry focusing on causative, curative, transformative, and promotive factors. The second is a community driven collective struggle that serves as a grassroots possibility to facilitate positive social transformation by using locally available resources and enabling the participation of the resident population.

As a whole, the book conveys the importance of a diversification of engagement at the grassroots level to strengthen the capacity of individuals as decisive stakeholders, where the process of social transformation makes communities more interconnected, interdependent, multicultural and vital in building an inclusive society.”

• Women’s Rights in Myanmar
• Women’s Political Participation in Myanmar
• Built Heritage in India
• Smart Cities and Sustainability in India
• Sustainable Development in Indian Sundarbans
• Vulnerable Communities in Indian Sundarbans
• Thai Outbound Investment in Rural Myanmar
• Naga People’s Political Struggles
• Naga People’s Cross-border Trade Practices
• Muslim-Dominated South of Thailand
• Climate Change in Southeast Asia
• Management and Preparedness toward Earthquake in Thailand
• Educational Reform in Myanmar
• Public Health Reform in Myanmar
• Elite Vision for Myanmar's Future
• Military Institutionalisation in Myanmar
• Social Transformations in South Asian Communities
• Social Transformations Southeast Asian Communities
• development policy

• Graduate School of Policy Studies, Aichi Gakuin University, Nisshin, Japan

  Chosein Yamahata

• Emeritus Professor at Meio University, Nago, Japan

  Donald M. Seekins

• Faculty of Policy Studies, Aichi Gakuin University, Nisshin, Japan

  Makiko Takeda

Chosein Yamahata is a Professor at the Graduate School of Policy Studies, Aichi Gakuin University, Japan. He is the coordinator of the Academic Diplomacy Project and co-edited Rights and Security in India, Myanmar and Thailand (2020). Dr. Yamahata is also a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Mass Communication at Chiang Mai University, Thailand.

Donald M. Seekins is an Emeritus Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Meio University, Japan. He is the author of Burma and Japan since 1940 (2007); State and Society in Modern Rangoon (2011) and The Historical Dictionary of Burma (2017). Dr. Seekins is co-founder of Burma Review and Challenges International Forum (BRACIF) and the Aunfair-Euro Roundtable (EAR).

Makiko Takeda is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Policy Studies, Aichi Gakuin University, Japan. She is the convener of the Asian University Network Forum on Advances in Research (AUNFAIR) and Thailand-India-Japan Conclave (TIJC). Dr. Takeda is the author of Women, Children and Social Transformation in Myanmar (2020).

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