Open Access issue in Burmese and English, “Histories of Belonging and Identities (Re)Imagined” from The Journal of Burma Studies

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The new special issue of Journal of Burma Studies is openly available on Project MUSE, including four articles in Burmese.

Photo from Maynadi Kyaw’s “The Appropriation of U Ottama by Japanese Bunkajin in Wartime Propaganda”: An Illustrated Book about U Ottama by Miyashita and Tanaka, 1943.
 
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.

JBS 29-1 cover

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.

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