Abstracts<\/strong>:
\n1. \u201cOpposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar’s Courts Make Law and Order\u201d
\nThe rule of law is a political ideal today endorsed and promoted worldwide. Or is it? In this presentation I argue that Myanmar is a country in which the rule of law is \u201clexically present but semantically absent.\u201d Charting ideas and practices from British colonial rule through military dictatorship to the present day, I call upon political and legal theory to explain how and why institutions animated by a concern for law and order oppose the rule of law. Empirically grounded in both Burmese and English sources, including criminal trial records and wide ranging official documents, this presentation offers a study of courts in contemporary Myanmar. It sheds new light on the politics of courts during dark times and sharply illuminates the tension between the demand for law and the imperatives of order.<\/p>\n2. \u201cHow in Myanmar \u201cNational Races\u201d Came to Surpass Citizenship and Exclude Rohingya\u201d
\nThe idea of \u201cnational races\u201d or taingyintha has animated brutal conflict in Myanmar over who or what is \u201cRohingya.\u201d But because the term is translated from Burmese inconsistently, and because its usage is contingent, its peculiar significance for political speech and action has been lost in work on Myanmar by scholars writing in English. Out of concern that Myanmar\u2019s contemporary politics cannot be understood without reckoning with taingyintha, in this presentation I give national races their due. Adopting a genealogical method, I trace the episodic emergence of taingyintha from colonial times to the present. I examine attempts to order national races taxonomically, and to marry the taxonomy with a juridical project to dominate some people and elide others through a citizenship regime in which membership in a national race has surpassed other conditions for membership in the political community \u201cMyanmar.\u201d Consequently, people who reside in Myanmar but are collectively denied citizenship\u2013like anyone identifying or identified as Rohingya\u2013pursue claims to be taingyintha so as to rejoin the community. Ironically, the surpassing symbolic and juridical power of national races is for people denied civil and political rights at once their problem and their solution.<\/p>\n
Contact<\/strong>:
\nKoichi Fujita, CSEAS, Kyoto University (kfujita[at]cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp; 075-753-7321 or 080-3104-2312)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You are cordially invited the following event organized by Zomia Study Group. The event is open to everyone. The 33rd Zomia Seminar (Co-organized by the Joint Research of CSEAS (IPCR) \u201cYunnan, Kacin and Assam\u201d (Representative: Masao Imamura at Yamagata University) Date: January 23, 2018 (Tuesday) 14:00-18:15 Venue: CSEAS (Center for Southeast Asian Studies), Kyoto University, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, 201 (\u201cTonan-tei\u201d) http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/access\/ Program: Part I 14:00-14:50 \u201cOpposing the Rule of Law in Myanmar: How Myanmar’s Courts Make Law and Order\u201d by Dr. Nick Cheesman (ANU) 14:50-15:00 Comments by Rohan D\u2019Souza (Kyoto University) 15:00\u201315:40 General discussion 15:40-16:00 Break Part II 16:00 \u2013 16:50 \u201cHow in Myanmar \u201cNational Races\u201d Came to Surpass […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8zquF-20180123","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}