Monthly Archives: March 2017
The production of communal violence in Myanmar
A sixth article of the seven in a forthcoming special issue on Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar, guest edited by Nick Cheesman, is available at the JCA publisher’s site for the journal. In fact, this article is the Introduction (DOI: … Continue reading
News and Communal Violence in Myanmar
A fifth article in a forthcoming special issue on Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar, guest edited by Nick Cheesman, is available at the JCA publisher’s site for the journal. “Producing the News: Reporting on Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1303078) is … Continue reading
Communal Violence in Myanmar: Roundtable Discussion
Readers in the USA may find the following Roundtable of interest, involving Nick Cheesman, the guest editor of a forthcoming special issue of the journal bearing the same title and contributor to that issue, Matt Schissler of the Anthropology Department … Continue reading
Chinese in Rangoon
Elaine L.E. Ho of the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore has contributed a new review of Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1301983). This book is authored by Jayde Lin Roberts and … Continue reading
Islam and the State in Myanmar
In a new review at JCA, Iza R. Hussin of the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge looks at the collection Islam and the State in Myanmar: Muslim-Buddhist Relations and the Politics of Belonging (DOI: … Continue reading
The Karen and Education
Learning, Migration and Intergenerational Relations: The Karen and the Gift of Education by Pia Joliffe is published in London by Palgrave Macmillan. This new book is reviewed at JCA (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1297477) by Shirley Worland of the Faculty of Social Science, … Continue reading
Issue 2 for 2017 published
Issue 2 of Volume 47 (2017) has gone to print and is available electronically. It is at the publisher’s site. The details are: Research Articles Natasha Hamilton-Hart, Opting for Openness: Capital Mobility and Monetary Sterilisation in Malaysia (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1257045) Hugo … Continue reading
Politics and Anti-Muslim Scapegoating in Myanmar
A third article in a forthcoming special issue on Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar, guest edited by Nick Cheesman, is available at the JCA publisher’s site for the journal. “The Contentious Politics of Anti-Muslim Scapegoating in Myanmar” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1293133) by … Continue reading
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