ABSTRACT

The changes that have swept rural Myanmar, transforming landscapes and affecting livelihoods, have ignited rural politics and civil society and grassroot organizations' strategies to counter, resist, negotiate and adapt to these changes. Rural politics have centred on broad calls for agrarian and environmental rights and social justice that do not address women's rights, gender and generational justice explicitly. Based on fieldwork carried out in Myanmar's Taninthary region, and engagement with grassroots organizations, I examine how gender and generational power dynamics play out, transform and are transformed in processes of agrarian and environmental change and rural politics.

摘要

席卷缅甸农村，改变景观并影响生计的变化，点燃了农村政治和民间社会以及基层组织应对，抵制，谈判和适应这些变化的战略。农村政治集中在对农业和环境权利以及社会正义的广泛呼吁上，这些呼吁并未明确涉及妇女的权利，性别和世代相传。基于在缅甸丹宁地区开展的实地调查以及与基层组织的接触，我研究了性别和世代权力动态如何在农业和环境变化以及农村政治进程中发挥，转化和转变。