Dan Banik and Kyungmee Kim discuss how “development” is understood by various communities in Myanmar, arguments for and against dam-building, and the strategies adopted by the Kachin in the northern part of the country to successfully resist the construction of the Myitsone dam.
Many of you may have heard about instances of local communities mobilising against the construction of dams in various parts of the world. But it turns out that not all communities are able to collectively resist dam-building. So, what explains the varying degrees of community resistance against large dams?
Kyungmee Kim tackles this question in a doctoral thesis that she successfully defended recently at Uppsala University in Sweden. She studied popular mobilization against dams in Myanmar and the extent to which political violence influenced identity formation, particularly its pace, direction and implications.
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