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This is the first comprehensive account of the multifaceted processes of gendered transformation that took place in Myanmar between 2011 and 2021, and which continues to shape events today. The period began with the end of direct military rule and the transition to a hybrid, semi-democratic regime, precipitating far-reaching political, economic and social changes across Myanmar. To date, the gendered dynamics and effects of this transition have not yet received sustained scholarly attention. Remedying this gap, this book provides a much-needed historical corrective through a careful, nuanced analysis of the gendered dynamics of transitional politics, institutions and policymaking; feminist resistance, mobilization, and movement building; and their effects on labor, land, and everyday lives. Although the February 2021 military coup brought an end to this decade of experimentation and transition, in the richness of its analysis and detail, the book offers a deeper understanding of the current political situation in Myanmar. The gendered changes that the transition brought about have shaped both the current configuration of masculinized, military dictatorship, as well as the unprecedented role played by women in resistance to military rule after the 2021 coup. This analysis of the gendered dynamics and effects of the recent decade of political transition in Myanmar is therefore critical for understanding current events, as well as the ways in which Myanmar’s political landscape might continue to be reshaped.

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"""Waves of Upheaval in Myanmar: Gendered Transformations and Political Transitions, edited by Elisabeth Olivius and Jenny Hedstr�m, assembles 13 essays from both scholars and activists who work on gender issues in Myanmar. . . . We are treated to explorations of gender not just, for instance, in lowland Bamar areas, but in ethnic spaces as well (from Karen, Kachin, and Rakhine states, to locations outside Myanmar's borders as well). . . we get not only classic academic analyses of gender in Burma, but hear the voices of activists themselves. . . These multiple perspectives allow the volume's texts to engage in conversation with one another - and often explicitly. . .""-- ""Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia"""

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Jenny Hedström is an associate professor in war studies at the Swedish Defence University. Her research concerns the relationship between gender and war, with a focus on rebel warfare in Myanmar. Elisabeth Olivius is an associate professor in political science at Umeå University whose research explores how gendered relations of power are produced and reshaped in conflict, displacement and peacebuilding.

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