Introduction: Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar
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Collective violence wracked Myanmar from 2012 to 2014. Overwhelmingly, Buddhists attacked Muslims. This article categorises the violence as “communal,” in so far as it consisted of recurrent, sporadic, direct physical hostility realised through repeated public expressions that Muslims constitute an existential threat to Buddhists. It advocates for interpretive modes of inquiry into the violence, as well as into the practices of interpretation enabling it. Eschewing methods aimed at producing a...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2017 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/240575 |
Source: | Journal of Contemporary Asia |
DOI: | 10.1080/00472336.2017.1305121 |
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