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Subject(s)

• Humanitarian assistance—Burma [Browse]
• Humanitarianism—Political aspects—Burma [Browse]
• Ethnic conflict—Burma [Browse]
• Burma—Politics and government—1988- [Browse]

Series

• Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 76. [More in this series]
• Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 76 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : An Ethnography of the Back Pack Health Worker Team's "Cross-Border Aid"
• Humanitarianism, Victims and Politics : conceptual debates and approaches
• From Burma to the Border : historical and political background to the debate around cross-border aid
• The Back Pack Health Worker Team, Product of Burma's "Chronic Emergency"
• Doing our Duty : Back Pack medics and the multi-ethnic victim
• Back Pack is Something, Back Pack is Nothing
• International Legitimacy for a "Humanitarian Struggle"
• Beyond Burma : finding a place in a future Myanmar
• Conclusion : The Politics of Humanitarian Aid, politics of life and politics of value.

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ISBN

• 9781138856271 (hardback)
• 1138856274 (hardback)

LCCN

2015021502

OCLC

910859793

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