Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar

ISBN-13: 9780367891879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 154 str.

Nick Cheesman

Opis

This book addresses the communal violence that shook Myanmar from 2012 to 2014, as well as engaging with broader debate about the characteristics, causes and consequences of communal violence. The chapters were originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Contemporary Asia.

Spis treści

Introduction: Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar Nick Cheesman 1. The Contentious Politics of Anti-Muslim Scapegoating in Myanmar Gerry van Klinken and Su Mon Thazin Aung 2. Reconciling Contradictions: Buddhist-Muslim Violence, Narrative Making and Memory in Myanmar Matt Schissler, Matthew J. Walton and Phyu Phyu Thi 3. Gendered Rumours and the Muslim Scapegoat in Myanmar’s Transition Gerard McCarthy and Jacqueline Menager 4. Communal Conflict in Myanmar: The Legislature’s Response, 2012–2015 Chit Win and Thomas Kean 5. Producing the News: Reporting on Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis Lisa Brooten and Yola Verbruggen 6. How in Myanmar “National Races” Came to Surpass Citizenship and Exclude Rohingya Nick Cheesman

O autorze

Nick Cheesman is a Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Change, Australian National University, Australia, and author of Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar’s Courts Make Law and Order (2015).