Ne Win’s Burmanization Narratives and the Prospects for Peace in Today’s Myanmar
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Youth, Community, and Democracy in India, Myanmar, and Thailand. Hrsg. / Chosein Yamahata; Makiko Takeda. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. S. 329-350.
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T1 - Ne Win’s Burmanization Narratives and the Prospects for Peace in Today’s Myanmar
AU - Htoo, Saw Eh
AU - Waters, Tony
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025.
PY - 2025/1/1
Y1 - 2025/1/1
N2 - This paper is about why Burmanization policies implemented by General Ne Win’s government after 1962 are important for understanding ethnic and other divisions in Burma today. These policies retrospectively were called “Bamar Baho Phyu” in Burmese, which means more precisely, “Bamar-centered policies,” or Burmanization of the economy, education, civil service, and especially the military. Like any nationalist, Ne Win wanted to put his own country first. In the autocratic “imagined community” he created, this Bamar Baho Phyu has long-term implications for the possibilities for peace, and an end to the civil war which began in 1948–1949, and continues today.
AB - This paper is about why Burmanization policies implemented by General Ne Win’s government after 1962 are important for understanding ethnic and other divisions in Burma today. These policies retrospectively were called “Bamar Baho Phyu” in Burmese, which means more precisely, “Bamar-centered policies,” or Burmanization of the economy, education, civil service, and especially the military. Like any nationalist, Ne Win wanted to put his own country first. In the autocratic “imagined community” he created, this Bamar Baho Phyu has long-term implications for the possibilities for peace, and an end to the civil war which began in 1948–1949, and continues today.
KW - Sociology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105005667096&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-97-6378-8_13
DO - 10.1007/978-981-97-6378-8_13
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:105005667096
SN - 9789819763771
SP - 329
EP - 350
BT - Youth, Community, and Democracy in India, Myanmar, and Thailand
A2 - Yamahata, Chosein
A2 - Takeda, Makiko
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Singapore
ER -