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Department of Geography
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Running from the Hills: Empire, Resistance and the State in Burma
Carolina Hall, Room 220 NCThe Wa region between Burma and China, where borders remain porous and neighbouring states have failed to ‘climb the hills’, seems like a typical place where highland dwellers have successfully resisted state domination. Yet the literature on Zomian escapism fails … Read more
Asia Week: Temporary Migrant Workers in (Post-)Pandemic Times: The Spatial Politics of Non-Integration and Prospects for Change
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThe challenges of contemporary migration in Asia must be understood in the context of the postcolonial development of nation-states in the region. When large-scale labour migration began in the 1970s, many Asian countries had only recently cut their colonial apron … Read more
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