Zomia
Zomia is a geographical term coined in 2002 by the Dutch historian Willem van Schendel at the University of Amsterdam . With Zomia he referred to a large part of the highland territory in Southeast Asia - an area of almost 2.5 million square kilometers including the Tibetan highlands - whose inhabitants, by default or frequently, refused or were able to evade the authority of the states to which their area belongs and therefore long outside state administrations, z. T. still lies today.
In his book "The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia", James C. Scott (* 1936) analyzes Zomia as the last experience of political autonomy that extends in space and exists in time and is capable of doing so was to put a stop to " progress " until recently: the autonomy of ethnic groups like the Hmong (Meo, Miao) or Kachin in the mountainous countries of Southeast Asia.
etymology
The name is derived from the Tibetan Burmese " Zomi " for the highlands and their inhabitants.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prof. dr Willem van Schendel . In: Profile: Selected publications since 2000 . International Institute of Social History . Retrieved November 28, 2010.
- ↑ van Schendel, W. (2005). "Geographies of knowing, geographies of ignorance: Jumping scale in Southeast Asia." In Kratoska, P., Raben, R., & Nordholt, H. (Eds). Locating Southeast Asia: Geographies of Knowledge and Politics of Space. Singapore: Singapore University Press.
- ↑ James C. Scott : The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies). Yale University Press, New Haven & London 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-15228-9 .