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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452659403321

Autore

Skidmore Monique

Titolo

Karaoke fascism [[electronic resource] ] : Burma and the politics of fear / / Monique Skidmore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004

ISBN

1-283-89677-X

0-8122-0476-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Collana

Ethnography of political violence

Disciplina

959.105

Soggetti

Oppression (Psychology) - Political aspects - Burma

Human rights - Burma

Subversive activities - Burma

Government, Resistance to - Burma - Psychological aspects

Electronic books.

Burma Politics and government 1988-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-234) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Map -- Chapter 1. Rangoon: End of Strife -- Chapter 2. Bombs, Barricades, and the Urban Battlefield -- Chapter 3. Darker Than Midnight: Fear, Vulnerability, and Terror-Making -- Chapter 4. Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Cigar -- Chapter 5. The Veneer of Modernity -- Chapter 6. The Veneer of Conformity -- Chapter 7. The Tension of Absurdity -- Chapter 8. Fragments of Misery: The People of the New Fields -- Chapter 9. The Forest of Time -- Chapter 10. Going to Sleep with Karaoke Culture -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

To come to Burma, one of the few places where despotism still dominates, is to take both a physical and an emotional journey and, like most Burmese, to become caught up in the daily management of fear. Based on Monique Skidmore's experiences living in the capital city of Rangoon, Karaoke Fascism is the first ethnography of fear in Burma and provides a sobering look at the psychological strategies employed by the Burmese people in order to survive under a military dictatorship



that seeks to invade and dominate every aspect of life.Skidmore looks at the psychology and politics of fear under the SLORC and SPDC regimes. Encompassing the period of antijunta student street protests, her work describes a project of authoritarian modernity, where Burmese people are conscripted as army porters and must attend mass rallies, chant slogans, construct roads, and engage in other forms of forced labor. In a harrowing portrayal of life deep within an authoritarian state, recovering heroin addicts, psychiatric patients, girl prostitutes, and poor and vulnerable women in forcibly relocated townships speak about fear, hope, and their ongoing resistance to four decades of oppression."Karaoke fascism" is a term the author uses to describe the layers of conformity that Burmese people present to each other and, more important, to the military regime. This complex veneer rests on resistance, collaboration, and complicity, and describes not only the Burmese form of oppression but also the Burmese response to a life of domination. Providing an inside look at the madness and the militarization of the city, Skidmore argues that the weight of fear, the anxiety of constant vulnerability, and the numbing demands of the State upon individuals force Burmese people to cast themselves as automata; they deliberately present lifeless hollow bodies for the State's use, while their minds reach out into the cosmos for an array of alternate realities. Skidmore raises ethical and methodological questions about conducting research on fear when doing so evokes the very emotion in question, in both researcher and informant.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910688350103321

Autore

Robert Paul Hunter

Titolo

Low-dose antibiotics : current status and outlook for the future / / topic editors: Joshua D. Nosanchuk, Jun Lin, Robert P. Hunter and Rustam I. Aminov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2014

[Lausanne, Switzerland] : , : Frontiers Media SA, , 2014

©2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Frontiers in Microbiology

Frontiers in Public Health

Disciplina

615.7922

Soggetti

Antibiotics - Effectiveness

Antibiotics - Research

Drug resistance in microorganisms

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Antimicrobial therapy is a key factor in our success against pathogens poised to ravage at risk or infected individuals. However, we are currently at a watershed point as we face a growing crisis of antibiotic resistance among diverse pathogens. One area of intense interest is the impact of the application of antibiotics for uses other than the treatment of patients and the association with such utilization with emerging drug resistance. This Research Topic “Low dose antibiotics: current status and outlook for the future” in Frontiers in Microbiology: Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy details various aspects of the wide ranging effects of antimicrobial therapy from areas such as the regulation of host responses tomodulation of bacterial virulence factors to acquisition of antibiotic resistance genes.