Globalization of the Fracture, Reconstruction and Conflict In Yangon：The Rescaling of State Spatiality and Urban Governance
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Wu, Be-Wei
Abstract
Yangon was Myanmar''s former capital and largest city until now. But the socialist rule has lead to its various internal turbulences, including the ethnic conflics and economic isolation from international society. After the 1990s the military regime of Myanmar gradually adopted the Open Door Policy, however, due to the overtime economic sanctions by Europe and the United States, Yangon still faces difficulties towards economic globalization. Recently, with the advent of democratic government, a new opportunity for Yangon is emerging despite of certain challenges for urban governance.
Based on the theoretical perspectives of globalization and the re-scaling of national spatiality, this study aims to explore issues as following. First, what are the transformative roles of Yangon city in contemporary Myanmar? Second, how has the Myanmar government implemented Open Door Policy for deepening regional integration? Moreover, through the relocation of the capital city, how has the new Special Economic Zone been establishing the new layout of the internal space under the limitation due to the overtime economic sanctions from Europe and the United States? Third, how Yangon has expereiced the fractured urbanization, weakened industrialization, and recently, the transformation and restructuring of the economic space?
Subjects
Yangon
Myanmar
Global City
Rescaling of State Spatiality
Uurban Governance
Type
thesis
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