Where There Is No Movement: Local Resistance and the Potential for Solidarity

摘要: In Burma, any attempt to form independent agrarian movements is violently suppressed, yet rural Karen villagers have developed and practise complex forms of resistance involving inter-community action solidarity across wide regions. These been successful in weakening state control over land livelihoods largely because their lack formal organization makes them difficult target. Though village has characteristics that resemble ‘movements’ as broadly defined make it comparable some existing movements, transnational movement coalitions actively engage with it. This contribution argues local struggles could both benefit from active engagement, explores the possibility potential for such engagement case.