Rebel Territory in a resource frontier: Commodification and spatialized orders of rule in Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar

•Resource frontiers are simultaneously political frontiers.•Commodifying frontiers reshape social orders of power through territorialization.•Frontier capitalism incrementally supplants rebel territory with state rule.

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Published in:Geoforum 2021-08, Vol.124, p.371-380
Main Author: Woods, Kevin M.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:•Resource frontiers are simultaneously political frontiers.•Commodifying frontiers reshape social orders of power through territorialization.•Frontier capitalism incrementally supplants rebel territory with state rule.
ISSN:0016-7185
1872-9398
DOI:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.04.030