Article ID: CBB883088466

Echoes of Colonial Logic in Re-Ordering “Public” Streets: From Colonial Rangoon to Postcolonial Yangon (December 2018)

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Beth E. Notar (Author)
Kyaw San Min (Author)
Raju Gautam (Author)


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Volume: 8
Issue: 3
Pages: 55-73


Publication Date: December 2018
Edition Details: Special section: Postcolonial Intersections: Asia on the Move
Language: English

This article investigates three historical moments in Rangoon, Burma (Yangon, Myanmar) when the city has restricted certain forms of mobility. The first occurred in 1920, when British authorities restricted rickshaws pulled by Indian laborers. The second was in 1960, when the military “caretaker government” sought to sideline pedicabs and horse carts as part of an urban “cleanup” campaign. The third happened in 2017, when city authorities under a new democratic government sought to limit the number of taxis and allow digital ride-hailing services such as Uber and Grab to operate in the city. Despite three very different forms of government, the later discourses eerily echo the exclusionary logic that certain forms of migrant driven mobility need to be cleared away for more “modern” mobility.

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Article Mayurakshi Chaudhuri; Viola Thimm (December 2018) Introduction: Postcolonial Intersections. Asia on the Move. Transfers (pp. 28-35). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Elmhirst, Rebecca
Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia
Andrey Vozyanov
David Bissell
Alexander Trauth-Goik
Claire Pelgrims
Concepts
Mobility
Cities and towns
Roads and highways
Transportation
Land transportation
Ridesharing
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
Africa
United States
Dakar
Tucumcari, New Mexico
Laos
Africa, Sub-Sahara
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