Renaud Egreteau
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Renaud Egreteau
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Associate Professor in Comparative Politics at City University of Hong Kong. Exploring all things political in Burma, or #Myanmar.

Political science 84%
Sociology 11%

Yes! Although Burmese hunger strikers have often referred to fasts performed by Gandhi and Irish republicans, a comparison with another Buddhist society would be nice!

The data I collected from interviews with #Burmese activists and ex-prisoners, and colonial records, point to similar patterns in the 1920s-1930s, mid-1950s, the Coco Islands strikes of 1969-71, the 1974-76 upheavals, in 1988 & since the 2021 coup. Free download doi.org/10.1177/18681034251363997 5/5
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Rejecting ‘fast-to-death’ forms of hunger strikes, some #Burmese dissidents have instead performed short-term, repeated, yet non-life-threatening fasts to pay tribute to martyrs, remember past contentious events, to sustain their movement and strengthen its collective identity 4/5

Hunger strikes occupy a prominent place in #Myanmar repertoire of contention, but remain a contested tactic, especially in a society where Buddhism is so prevalent, and where suicidal behaviours are often viewed unfavourably 3/5

Departing from classic views on hunger strikes, I conceptualise contentious acts of fasting as commemorative strategies and performances seeking to build solidarity and a collective memory of past protest actions and events in #Myanmar 2/5

Activists in #Myanmar have long deployed #HungerStrikes as tools of protest. But they have also fasted to commemorate past struggles and deceased comrades. My latest with the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs is free and #OpenAccess at doi.org/10.1177/18681034251363997 1/5

Check out the piece Aung Kaung Myat and I developed on how adversarial frames of Rohingya were deployed in Myanmar’s parliamentary discourses, and this regardless of MPs party affiliation and ethnic background.

In Asian Ethnicity (Online First) www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Antagonistic framing and the social exclusion of Rohingya in Myanmar’s parliamentary discourses (2011–2021)
Antagonistic frames about minority groups are hard to dislodge. Their persistence limits the scope for conflict resolution in divided societies. The parliament that surfaced in Myanmar during a dec...
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Don't miss Nick Cheesman's new Cambridge Elements "Myanmar : A Political Lexicon". A short, but sharp, book that is free to download until late January here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Cambridge Core - South-East Asian Government, Politics and Policy - Myanmar
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Thanks!

My profile article with Social Movement Studies, which built on Tilly’s #repertoire concept to shed light on how #Myanmar anti-coup protesters mobilized is now part of a terrific special issue on hybrid protest logics in Asia | Do check here: doi.org/10.1080/1474...
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