Issue 3 for 2017 published

Issue 3 of Volume 47 (2017) has gone to print and is available electronically. It is at the publisher’s site.

This number is a special issue. Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar has been guest edited by Nick Cheesman from the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.

The articles included are:

Introduction: Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1305121) by Nick Cheesman

The Contentious Politics of Anti-Muslim Scapegoating in Myanmar (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1293133) by Gerry van Klinken and Su Mon Thazin Aung.

Reconciling Contradictions: Buddhist-Muslim Violence, Narrative Making and Memory in Myanmar (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1290818) by Matt Schissler, Matthew J. Walton and Phyu Phyu Thi

Gendered Rumours and the Muslim Scapegoat in Myanmar’s Transition (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1304563) by Gerard McCarthy and Jacqueline Menager

Communal Conflict in Myanmar: The Legislature’s Response, 2012–2015 (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1291847) by Chit Win and Thomas Kean

Producing the News: Reporting on Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1303078) by Lisa Brooten and Yola Verbruggen

How in Myanmar “National Races” Came to Surpass Citizenship and Exclude Rohingya (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1297476) by Nick Cheesman

The special issue also carries a set of book reviews on Myanmar:

Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar’s Courts Make Law and Order (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1217556) reviewed by Susanne Prager-Nyein

Islam and the State in Myanmar: Muslim-Buddhist Relations and the Politics of Belonging (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1292361) reviewed by Iza R. Hussin

Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1301983) reviewed by Elaine L.E. Ho

Learning, Migration and Intergenerational Relations: The Karen and the Gift of Education (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1297477) reviewed by Shirley Worland