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Myanmar's New Generation: A study of elite young people in Yangon, 2010 to 2016
With Myanmar’s 2010 general election the world’s longest
reigning military regime undertook a managed diminution of overt
authoritarian rule. As the population adjusted to a series of
cascading social transformations, elite young people stepped up
to catalyse a period of generational change. This thesis
considers elite young people in Myanmar from 2010 to 2016, and
provides analysis based on extensive fieldwork in the city of
Yangon, Myanmar. This thesis disaggregates five social groups of
elite young people in contemporary Myanmar, and orders them
according to their proximity to established arrangements of the
former military regime: the Yakuza gangsters, the cronies, the
beloved young women, the cool underground rappers, and the
creatives.
Through a process of generational rejuvenation elite young people
influenced Myanmar’s social and economic transformations, in
what proved to be nuanced and contradictory ways. Theories of
generations conceptualise generational change as an iterative
process, involving the regeneration and rejuvenation of existing
explanations and systems alongside the introduction of entirely
new ones. In contrast, theories of elite formation explain how
various elite qualities are inherited from one generation to the
next, often bolstering the social status of the people with that
quality. This thesis applies a combination of these approaches to
the case study of Myanmar, contributing a vibrant understanding
of the processes of generational change, highlighting the role of
elite young people in the early days of a wide-ranging social
transformation
Law fuckers, cultural forgers and the business of youth entitlement in Yangon, Myanmar
Myanmar's rolling political and economic transition is being shaped by profound generational change. Little attention has been paid to the priorities and politics of the new generation of youth. This article seeks to explore the construction of Myanmar'
Gendered Rumours and the Muslim Scapegoat in Myanmar's Transition
Since 2012 Myanmar has experienced recurrent waves of religiously imbued violence. Violence has been both physical and symbolic. Symbolic violence has included the popularisation of the belief that Muslim men are the primary threat to Buddhist women, and by extension, the body politic of Myanmar. This article draws on ethnographic research and theory on rumours and nationalism to show how colonial era social and legal processes have been drawn on to establish Muslim men as the scapegoats for deeply held social grievances amongst the Buddhist majority. Rumours of the rape and forced religious conversion of Buddhist women make the political personal and justify demands for male and state protection. We argue that in Myanmar the figure of the wealthy Muslim perpetrator has been popularised both as a scapegoat for decades of brutal authoritarianism and as a threat to the contemporary social reproduction of the national Buddhist polity
Les immortels du SĂ©nat, 1875-1918
Ce livre s’inscrit clans la sĂ©rie des recherches suscitĂ©es par l’enquĂŞte sur le personnel parlementaire de la Troisième RĂ©publique, entreprise par l’URA 1016 du CNRS, au sein du Centre d’histoire du xixe siècle qui assoÂcie les UniversitĂ©s de Paris I et de Paris IV. Cet ouvrage porte sur une catĂ©gorie de sĂ©nateurs aujourd’hui oubliĂ©e : les inamovibles, nommĂ©s d’abord par l’AssemblĂ©e nationale, puis par le SĂ©nat, conformĂ©ment Ă la loi constitutionnelle du 24 fĂ©vrier 1875. Jusqu’à la rĂ©vision constitutionnelle de 1884, qui mit fin Ă ce mode de dĂ©signation, il y eut cent seize sĂ©nateurs inamovibles. Les diverses contributions rĂ©unies dans la première partie apportent des Ă©lĂ©ments de rĂ©flexion sur les origines sociales et la formation, les alliances et rĂ©seaux familiaux, les attitudes philosophiques et spirituelles, les liens avec le monde militaire, le barreau, le monde acadĂ©mique. Il fallait Ă©voÂquer leur enracinement provincial, leur place dans les conseils du gouverÂnement, leur comportement politique grâce Ă quelques scrutins qui perÂmettent au reste de dĂ©crire tendances et groupes dans le SĂ©nat des dĂ©buts de la RĂ©publique. Enfin, les obsèques des sĂ©nateurs inamovibles et la mĂ©moire qui les accompagne constituent comme le tombeau de ces « immortels » de la RĂ©publique. Les profils biographiques prĂ©sentĂ©s ensuite trouveront sĂ»rement l’attention de tous ceux qui s’intĂ©ressent aux Ă©lites socio-politiques de la France contemporaine. On dĂ©couvre nombre de personnalitĂ©s dont les dĂ©buts, non seulement professionnels mais politiques, datent de la monarÂchie de Juillet, voire de la fin de la Restauration. Certaines de leurs exisÂtences. et pas seulement celles des officiers de l’armĂ©e de terre ou de marine, sont marquĂ©es au coin du romanesque. Elles font revivre, comme en un Ă©clair, l’histoire mouvementĂ©e de la France du xixe siècle, jalonnĂ©e par les rĂ©volutions, les changements de rĂ©gime, les choix difficiles entre fidĂ©litĂ© et ralliement. Ce livre Ă©claire une institution rarement Ă©tudiĂ©e et un personnel mal connu, qui doit tant Ă la France des notables, une France de propriĂ©taires et de juristes, attachĂ©e au libĂ©ralisme