Postcolonial Capitalism and the Politics of Dispossession: Political Trajectories in Southern Myanmar
Postcolonial Capitalism and the Politics of Dispossession: Political Trajectories in Southern Myanmar
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后殖民资本主义与剥夺政治：缅甸南部的政治轨迹
DOI：
10.1163/15700615-01702006
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发表时间：
2018
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Aung, Geoffrey
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Aung, Geoffrey
本文考察了缅甸南部小镇土瓦的土地和资源斗争轨迹。作为一个重大经济特区项目所在地，土瓦在国家政治和经济改革的背景下，围绕流离失所、剥夺和环境退化问题持续动员起来。最近，学者们认为，随着失去土地的农民越来越被排除在正式的资本主义生产之外，早期的后殖民转型愿景已经失去了实证和政治依据。如果在今天的积累条件下组织政治活动的是排斥而非转型的动力，那么政治和政治形式会发生什么？本文重新利用了卡延·桑亚尔的后殖民资本主义概念，对土瓦的剥夺政治进行了描述和理论分析。追溯激进团体和村民的政治活动，它认为两种截然不同的政治轨迹——一种是世俗的平等主义，一种是情境的差异——构成了一个异质的政治场域，反映了后殖民资本主义本身的复杂性。
This article examines the trajectory of struggles over land and resources in Dawei, a town in southern Myanmar. The site of a major special economic zone project, Dawei has seen sustained mobilisation around displacement, dispossession and environmental degradation, against the backdrop of national political and economic reforms. Recently, scholars have argued that earlier visions of postcolonial transition have lost their empirical and political purchase, as farmers dispossessed of land increasingly become excluded from formal capitalist production. What happens to politics and political form if dynamics of exclusion, rather than transition, organise political activity under today’s conditions of accumulation? Repurposing Kalyan Sanyal’s concept of postcolonial capitalism, this article describes and theorises the politics of dispossession in Dawei. Tracing the political activities of activist groups and villagers, it argues that two contrasting political trajectories—one secular–egalitarian, one situational–differential—constitute a heterogeneous political field, reflecting the complexity of postcolonial capitalism itself.