Negotiated spaces and Kyukyaw liminalities
Subtitle: life and community in the informal settlement of Mandalay's Ayeyarwady riverbank
By: Moe Moe Hlaing
Contributors: Mahāwitthayālai Chīang Mai. Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development
Series: Understanding Myanmar's development -- research report no. 22; Understanding Myanmar's development -- research report no. 22.
Publisher: Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Chiang Mai, Thailand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Slums; Economic conditions
Description: "Focused on two adjacent riverbank communities in urban Mandalay with drastically different geographies and forms of materiality, this research attempts to show how livelihoods and community are both shaped by and actively shape space. This study follows the communities from their origins and the mobilities that brought rural families to settle by the riverbank, and the mobilities that continue today. The study analyzes how human agency, vibrant social dynamics, and the ability to negotiate a more viable existence constantly face external threats, such as public discourse towards kyu, state directives against informal communities, natural challenges such as flooding, and the uncompromising urban economy. The lived realities of these people present a challenge to dominant assumptions and forms of discourse constructed around them."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-119)

In English; abstract in Burmese