(Re)making resource frontiers through everyday violence and social movements in the uplands of mainland Southeast Asia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 2010, Myanmar began to transition from 48 years of military rule to a quasi-demilitarized and democratized government. This process attracted international attention to the country and increased investments in resource extraction. In this dissertation, I ask how historical relationships and present tensions between an assemblage of actors, resources, and spaces produce resource frontiers. To examine how state and non-state military-private partnerships and social movements co-constitute one another and resource frontiers, I developed a research approach using feminist collaborative methods. For three years (2015-2018) I worked with a team to conduct research with civil society organizations (CSOs) and in communities impacted by two sites of resource extraction: Tigyit Coal Mine and Power Plant and Mong Ton Hydropower Project. I argue that as a historical formation, resource frontiers intertwine with violence and capitalist extraction; and, as an unfolding process, they deeply affect everyday lives. To make this argument, I historicize resource frontiers and demonstrate how specific frontier projects dismantle and recreate property systems and nature-society relationships, often while leaving ongoing violence and exclusion in their wake. I highlight the interconnections between frontier-making, fragmented sovereignties, and conflict, while also demonstrating the everyday lived realities of frontiers. In this research, I conceptualize the way that globally-connected and historically-situated resource frontiers shape sovereignty, war, and access for localized frontier actors; and, in turn, how frontier actors remake nature, nation, and global trade. Through my focus of the everyday violence communities experience from resource frontiers and how fragmented sovereignties from an under-explored region interact with an under-explored actor (CSOs), I contribute to an expanded understanding of sovereignties, resource frontiers, and violence.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".