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In the early hours of 13 February 2014, a devastating fire broke out inside the downtown market of Taungoo in central Myanmar. One of the primary trading hubs in the northern Bago Region, the market housed more than a thousand shops and informal sellers. The under-resourced local fire brigade could not contain the blaze, and by dawn, the entire market had been reduced to ashes. All that remained when I visited months later was a pile of rubble the size of a football field surrounded by scorched brick walls-a visual and economic wound in the heart of the town.The destruction of the market loomed large throughout my fieldwork in Taungoo after 2014. Some of my interlocutors ran shops in or near the market. Others worked for the municipal authority that owned the land where the market stood. Several were closely linked to businesspeople vying to build a replacement complex. Shop keep ers, property developers, and the municipal authority could not reach a consensus about the market's reconstruction, creating an impasse that had already endured for a year when I commenced fieldwork.Two options dominated this debate. Many shop keep ers supported reconstruction of a simple single-story bui

Author

Gerard McCarthy, (Gerard T. J.)

Publisher

Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501767999