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Elizabeth Rush

Still Lifes from a Vanishing City: Essays and Photographs from Yangon by Elizabeth Rush

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In 2010, the tectonic plates beneath the junta-controlled Myanmar started to shift. As the military regime began to loosen its reigns on power it auctioned off 80% of the country's state-owned assets and earmarked hundreds of buildings in downtown Yangon for demolition and redevelopment. This opaque but surely profitable fire sale would profoundly reshape the country's economic landscape and the lives of those who had long called the former colonial capital of Yangon home.Elizabeth Rush, a westerner who has been reporting on South East Asia for years, made good use of strange days just before Myanmar's awakening to venture into the lost world… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Larkin, Emma (Solist) / Rush, Elizabeth (Fotogr.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-934159-44-6
  • EAN: 9781934159446
  • Produktnummer: 17238574
  • Verlag: Thingsasian Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Masse: H27.3 cm x B40.0 cm x D1.3 cm 1'188 g
  • Gewicht: 1188

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Elizabeth Rush has crossed borders with Bangladeshi cattle smugglers, built homes with Lima's squatters, and participated in the underground performance art scene in Yangon, Myanmar and Hanoi, Vietnam. Her work has appeared in Granta, Orion, Le Monde Diplomatique, Al Jazeera, Witness, the Huffington Post, Frieze, Nowhere and others. She is the editor and a contributor to Lost & Found Hanoi (ThingsAsian Press 2013), a collection of photographs that captures the essence of present-day North Vietnam. She currently teaches at the City University of New York and is at work on a non-fiction book about how marginalized people are responding to sea rise.

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