Indigenous Identity, Human Rights, and the Environment in Myanmar: Local Engagement with Global Rights Discourses

by Jonathan Liljeblad

This book draws on the experiences of the indigenous movement in Myanmar to explore how the local construction of indigenous identities connects communities to global mechanisms for addressing human rights and environmental issues.

Various communities in Myanmar have increasingly adapted international discourses of indigenous identity as a vehicle to access international legal mechanisms to address their human rights and environmental grievances...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367679922
• ISBN13: 9780367679927
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"