The new special issue of Journal of Burma Studies is openly available on Project MUSE, including four articles in Burmese.
As described by co-editors Hitomi Fujimura and Alicia Turner:
This special issue, and the larger collaborative research project, began as small conversation between the two co-editors. Exchanging our experiences of field and archival work, we realized how fruitful interactions between scholars with different backgrounds and academic careers could be to reimagining Burma Studies. Although we both are “scholars from formerly colonizing countries,” our ways of understanding the Burmese language and culture are different because they are produced through scholars’ own culture and background. The more we talked, the more we realized that Burma Studies was poorer for lack of such discussions among scholars. While individual connections between scholars of different academic cultures have happened, there has rarely been an attempt to systematically bring these voices together.
Research Articles
The Appropriation of U Ottama by Japanese Bunkajin in Wartime Propaganda
Maynadi Kyaw
Intoxicated Men and Moral Women: How the Multireligious Moral Movements Crafted Gender in Colonial Burma
Hitomi Fujimura
The Emergence of Ethnic Politics in 1940s Myanmar: Karens and Thakin Historiography
Kazuto Ikeda
Reconsidering the “Anti-Footwear Campaign” in Colonial Burma (1916–1920): A Struggle between Religious and Political Interpretations
Kei Nemoto
Direct link to Burmese edition here.
