In this talk the lecturer gives ethnographic impression in the ways that humanitarian assistance was organized to the refugee camps, to the migrants in Northwestern Thailand on the Thai-Burmese border and to internally displaced persons in Eastern Burma. Further, the lecturer argues that humanitarian assistance has also fueled the imagination of a Karen homeland in a context of devastation of the Karen landscape in Eastern Burma. Humanitarian assistance then boosted in important ways the recovery of a project that was both nationalist and religious. The talk also looks at how the re-entering grassroots humanitarian assistance programs into Burma via Thailand has led to a religious re-awakening and interpretation of the conflict at hand.

Mittwoch, den 4. Mai 2016
Zeit: 18 c.t.
Ort: Raum 123
Universität Hamburg
Asien-Afrika Institut
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1,
Flügel Ost