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Myanmar: a political lexicon

Part of the Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia series
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Myanmar: A Political Lexicon is a critical inquiry into how words animate politics.

Across sixteen entries the lexicon stages dialogues about political speech and action in this country at the nexus of South, East and Southeast Asia.

This Element offers readers venues in which to consider the history and contingency of ideas like power, race, patriarchy and revolution.

Contention over these and other ideas, it shows, does not reflect the political world in which Myanmar's people live-it realizes it.

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