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Imagined Futures: Education and Nation-building in Karen-dominated Refugee Camps along the Thailand-Burma Border.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Imagined Futures: Education and Nation-building in Karen-dominated Refugee Camps along the Thailand-Burma Border./
Author:	Johnson, Kim.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	386 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-01A(E).
Subject:	Education policy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10158477
ISBN:	9781369134858

Imagined Futures: Education and Nation-building in Karen-dominated Refugee Camps along the Thailand-Burma Border.
Johnson, Kim.

Imagined Futures: Education and Nation-building in Karen-dominated Refugee Camps along the Thailand-Burma Border. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 386 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2016.

This dissertation argues that participatory methods and strategies used by international organizations to create and implement education policies often work to perpetuate the status quo vis-a-vis statism and political power. I critique the international community's support of the nation-state system and of individual states, even when they have violated important tenets of "world society"; and I critique the impact of international education policies, introduced via participatory methods, in maintaining the statist system and its international and local power structures. This research looks specifically at the consequences of international strategies on education in Burma and in the refugee camps in Thailand, where ethnic minority people from Burma have been living for decades.

ISBN: 9781369134858Subjects--Topical Terms:

2191387
Education policy.

Imagined Futures: Education and Nation-building in Karen-dominated Refugee Camps along the Thailand-Burma Border.
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520 $a Using vertical ethnographic methods, I analyze educational policies in and around the refugee camps across time, space, and political levels. I begin by showing how the policies implemented by the British colonialists in Burma combined and divided Burma's ethnic groups in problematic ways, resulting in a singular "Burmese" statist identity built on increased divisions between highland and lowland ethnic groups.
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