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Revolutionary countryside: A feminist counter-topography of war in Myanmar
University of Montana, United States, (USA).
Swedish Defence University, Department of War Studies, Functions and Perspective Division.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9535-3276
Cornell University, United States, (USA).
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2025 (English)In: Geoforum, ISSN 0016-7185, E-ISSN 1872-9398, Vol. 159, p. 1-11, article id 104164Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In the image below, Mi Mi ties together her experiences of seeing the Myanmar military burn homes, cooking by candlelight, and struggling to grow crops and make ends meet during a period of climate and economic crisis, all with her baby on her back. Her story raises broader questions about how we understand the intersections of gender, land and revolution in Myanmar and other militarized landscapes. In this paper, we employ collaborative and mixed methodologies to map violence and resistance on the land and in the body, starting from Mi Mi’s story to advance a feminist counter-topography of war. We borrow the notion of counter-topography from geographer Cindy Katz, who poses counter-topography as an analytical and political project that examines the intersecting effects and material consequences of large-scale processes in a particular place. Our analysis brings together diverse datasets to illustrate how Myanmar’s contemporary conflict is shaped by spatial patterns and intergenerational histories of violence and endured through embodied relations to land and kin.

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2025. Vol. 159, p. 1-11, article id 104164
Keywords [en]
Counter-topographies, Feminist methodologies, Agrarian change, Militarized landscapes, Myanmar
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Gender Studies Political Science Human Geography
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War Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-13284DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104164OAI: oai:DiVA.org:fhs-13284DiVA, id: diva2:1919287
Available from: 2024-12-09 Created: 2024-12-09 Last updated: 2025-09-29Bibliographically approved

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