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.
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
August 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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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August 17, 2024 at 8:08 AM
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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January 12, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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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December 8, 2023 at 1:52 AM