My DPhil research explores alternative visions of non-state education and particularly the modes of collective action structuring and sustaining these as they seek to further Burma’s democratic transition.

Through a case study of recent initiatives in a Pwo Karen community on the country’s southeastern border with Thailand, I explore the role knowledge networks, mediated by a range of interests and identities, are currently playing in shaping civic representations and responses amongst ethnic nationality communities at the margins of the state.