LEADER 05194nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910825065203321 005 20240418023257.0 010 $a1-283-89677-X 010 $a0-8122-0476-X 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204766 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104565 035 $a(OCoLC)794702355 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576109 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000669532 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11402521 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000669532 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10709046 035 $a(PQKB)10864026 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18465 035 $a(DE-B1597)449335 035 $a(OCoLC)1013936962 035 $a(OCoLC)979622983 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204766 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441668 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576109 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420927 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441668 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104565 100 $a20040408d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aKaraoke fascism$b[electronic resource] $eBurma and the politics of fear /$fMonique Skidmore 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (261 p.) 225 1 $aEthnography of political violence 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-1883-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [223]-234) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tPreface -- $tMap -- $tChapter 1. Rangoon: End of Strife -- $tChapter 2. Bombs, Barricades, and the Urban Battlefield -- $tChapter 3. Darker Than Midnight: Fear, Vulnerability, and Terror-Making -- $tChapter 4. Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Cigar -- $tChapter 5. The Veneer of Modernity -- $tChapter 6. The Veneer of Conformity -- $tChapter 7. The Tension of Absurdity -- $tChapter 8. Fragments of Misery: The People of the New Fields -- $tChapter 9. The Forest of Time -- $tChapter 10. Going to Sleep with Karaoke Culture -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aTo 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. 410 0$aEthnography of political violence. 606 $aOppression (Psychology)$xPolitical aspects$zBurma 606 $aHuman rights$zBurma 606 $aSubversive activities$zBurma 606 $aGovernment, Resistance to$zBurma$xPsychological aspects 607 $aBurma$xPolitics and government$y1988- 610 $aAnthropology. 610 $aFolklore. 610 $aHuman Rights. 610 $aLaw. 610 $aLinguistics. 610 $aPolitical Science. 615 0$aOppression (Psychology)$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aHuman rights 615 0$aSubversive activities 615 0$aGovernment, Resistance to$xPsychological aspects. 676 $a959.105 700 $aSkidmore$b Monique$0801504 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825065203321 996 $aKaraoke fascism$94057375 997 $aUNINA