The Coup and the Camp: Myanmar’s Revolution and the Plight of the Rohingya

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In this talk, Prasse-Freeman discusses his ongoing fieldwork from Cox’s Bazar refugee camps and the Thai/Burma border, exploring the effects of the ongoing revolution on the enduring issue of inter-ethnic relations. While Burmese people endorse the need to dismantle entrenched “Burmanization” – a term that denotes the domination of the country’s institutions by the majority Bamar ethnicity -Rohingya wonder whether any multiethnic future in the nation would actually include them.

Speaker:

Elliott Prasse-Freeman, Assistant Professor in the Sociology and Anthropology department at the National University of Singapore. His forthcoming monograph, Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar (Stanford University Press, September 2023) is based on long-term fieldwork in Myanmar, spanning 2004 to the 2021 coup. Prasse-Freeman also has a book project in progress on Rohingya political subjectivity amidst dislocation and mass violence, work which takes him to Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Thailand.

Moderator:

Margaret Scott, Adjunct Associate Professor at the International Relations Program, New York University, and co-founder of NYSEAN

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