Susan Banki
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 759233 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susan Banki |
| NOMBRES | Susan |
| APELLIDO | Banki |
| FIRMA | BANKI S |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9203-4106 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Compelled exile performances
For those who flee into exile, transnational repression creates particular forms of tension around the public activities that exiles often feel they must perform. This paper explores that tension, focusing on two forms of compelled exile performance: highlighting home country abuses and initiating claims for asylum. The paper begins by sketching the connective tissue that brings precarity, performance and transnational repression into a dynamic r…
The spatial dimensions of migrant politics
This Special Issue examines the interplay between physical space and sociopolitical forces in shaping migrant politics, emphasizing the role of borders as both mechanisms of control and sites of resistance. Moving beyond static geographical boundaries, we conceptualize borders through bordering practices that restrict access to territories, resources, and rights via formal and informal governance mechanisms. These include laws, policies, exclusio…
Porosity on the Thailand-Myanmar border
Points of political crisis in Myanmar’s history have been the catalyst for forced migration, and the Thailand-Myanmar border has, for decades, been a site of significant border-crossing. But while tens of thousands arrived in Thailand in the aftermath of previous crackdowns by Myanmar’s military, the severity of the February 2021 coup has not been met with a commensurate increase in arrivals. What explains the difference? Over time, the border is…
Migrant Artists and Migrating Art from Myanmar
The violence enacted on the people of Myanmar over decades has been captured in photographs, performances, hip-hop and art of various mediums. The subjects of such art are as diverse as their messages, excoriating perpetrators, historical figures and the international community as an accomplice. While much of this work has been undertaken by those still within the borders of their countries, migrant artists have played a significant role in gener…
Cedaw is Up in the Sky
Since its adoption in 1979, the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has provided a critical framework for holding governments accountable for addressing gender discrimination and advancing women's rights. However, structural inequalities significantly restrict the ability of marginalised groups, particularly Indigenous and Ethnic Minority (IEM) women, to engage with CEDAW and similar high-level ad…
Bhutan’s Democratic Growing Pains
Bhutan has attracted international attention by pioneering the Gross National Happiness index, gaining a reputation for promoting holistic societal well-being instead of the more typical focus on economic growth. Yet a decade and a half since becoming a democracy, Bhutan is experiencing growing pains. A dearth of job opportunities has prompted more young people to emigrate. And minority rights are still not secure, particularly those of Nepali-sp…
Aligned and shifting identities in distant diasporas
The diaspora literature regularly examines identity shifts and remakings through experiences of displacement. Multigenerational diasporas, however, complicate these shifts due to differing contexts of education, history and resettlement experience between younger and older generations. How does diaspora identity continue across generations, and where does it shift in distant diasporas? This article examines the ways that the identities of former …
Art is happening in Myanmar, and outside of it
This article examines a form of activism in Myanmar that emerged after the 2021 coup: solidarity art, wherein art is sold overseas and the proceeds returned to the artists that produced it. Myanmar’s solidarity art demonstrates a new version of the phenomenon, where digital transmission replaces older modes of distribution, and the artwork is displayed publicly. While artwork of this nature may be useful, it requires interrogation because of the …
Refracting rights from the margins
Refugee Mobilization in the Nepal–India Borderlands
For more than a decade, the India–Nepal border played a central role as a site of resistance for Bhutan’s refugees. It served as a conduit through which materials and information were exchanged and demonstrations were planned and carried out. Key to the undertaking of these activities was the border’s porosity, which, I argue, is an overlooked opportunity structure in homeland activism. In this article, I draw on borderland theories and empirical…
Practicing what we teach
As innovative pedagogies such as experiential learning unsettle traditional assumptions about tertiary teaching, a deeper understanding of how teachers experience such shifts is required. Whilst the literature emphasizes that effective experiential learning should entail transformative educational experiences for students, less attention is paid to the implications for educators. Through a collaborative autoethnographic approach, this research ex…
Toward a framework for assessing the 'global' and 'citizen' in global citizenship education in Australia and beyond
In addition to its influences across economic, geopolitical, and social spheres, globalization has given rise to the notion of a ‘global citizen’ who is able to understand a shifting and more internationalized world while moving fluidly through it. Education has been trumpeted as the means to achieve this globally-aware citizenry, leading to an entire field of global citizenship education (GCE). Here teachers are the linchpin, yet understandings …
Myanmar
For scholars of Southeast Asia interested in human rights, Myanmar is a country that ‘has it all.’ I use this tongue-in-cheek expression to suggest the myriad ways that the country remains mired in structural challenges that inform its current human rights problems. In this paper, I point out the country’s most glaring structural challenges and link these to its most pressing human rights problems. A brief section about Myanmar in the context of …
Voluntourism and the contract corrective
Critiques of the voluntourism industry focus on power imbalances, colonial legacies and white privilege. Drawing on the literatures of development and voluntourism to find points of comparison, we argue that the voluntourism industry reflects myriad development problems, such as structural challenges, the fungibility of aid, corruption, representation, worker narratives and temporality. We assert that many of the problems inherent in voluntourism…
Teaching Human Rights at the Tertiary Level
Critiques of the voluntourism industry focus on power imbalances, colonial legacies, and white privilege. Drawing on the literatures of development and voluntourism to find points of comparison, we argue that the voluntourism industry reflects myriad de-velopment problems, such as structural challenges, the fungibility of aid, corruption, representation, worker narratives, and temporality. We assert that many of the prob-lems inherent in voluntou…
Urbanity, Precarity, and Homeland Activism. Burmese Migrants in Global Cities
This article interrogates the link between urbanity and “precarity of place” for non-citizen populations, relying on evidence drawn from the transnational homeland activities of Burmese migrants in two global cities (Bangkok and Tokyo). First, the article builds upon literatures of precarity and global cities to detail the complexity of urban spaces in relation to migration, and draws upon understandings of political mobilisation to explain homel…
Teaching Human Rights at the Tertiary Level
This article describes a five-pointed approach to teaching human rights at the tertiary level. This approach points to the need for human rights education that: 1) offers abilities and capacities that complement legal approaches; 2) provides students with the tools to grasp the root causes of violations; 3) incorporates learning on local, national, regional, and international levels; 4) includes significant collaborative opportunities; and 5) off…
Contested Regimes, Aid Flows, and Refugee Flows
There is a substantial literature that critiques the role that international aid plays in lending support to oppressive and contested regimes. But few investigators have asked the inverse question: what happens when aid is withdrawn? Following government oppression in 1988, international aid to Burma decreased significantly, providing a case study enabling this question to be addressed. Using Burma as an example, this article asks: if the presenc…
Burmese Refugees in Tokyo
This paper explores the consequences of Japan's refugee policy for Burmese refugees living in Tokyo by examining refugees' livelihoods and responses to the immigration/refugee legal system. It begins with a description of Japan's legal framework as it pertains to immigrants and refugees, then examines four elements of refugees' livelihoods in Tokyo: employment, housing, health care and education. Tokyo's urban environment enables Burmese refugees…
The Triad of Transnationalism, Legal Recognition, and Local Community
Refugee participation in transnational acts – from advocating for regime change in home countries to strengthening modes of safe passage for friends and family to host countries – is only as effective as the ability of refugees to organize, collaborate with one another, and develop strong communication links between communities in the home and host countries. While many assume that legal status improves the ability of refugees to engage in politi…
Burmese Refugees in Tokyo
This paper explores the consequences of Japan's refugee policy for Burmese refugees living in Tokyo by examining refugees' livelihoods and responses to the immigration/refugee legal system. It begins with a description of Japan's legal framework as it pertains to immigrants and refugees, then examines four elements of refugees' livelihoods in Tokyo: employment, housing, health care and education. Tokyo's urban environment enables Burmese refugees…
The Triad of Transnationalism, Legal Recognition, and Local Community
Refugee participation in transnational acts – from advocating for regime change in home countries to strengthening modes of safe passage for friends and family to host countries – is only as effective as the ability of refugees to organize, collaborate with one another, and develop strong communication links between communities in the home and host countries. While many assume that legal status improves the ability of refugees to engage in politi…
Compelled exile performances
For those who flee into exile, transnational repression creates particular forms of tension around the public activities that exiles often feel they must perform. This paper explores that tension, focusing on two forms of compelled exile performance: highlighting home country abuses and initiating claims for asylum. The paper begins by sketching the connective tissue that brings precarity, performance and transnational repression into a dynamic r…
Porosity on the Thailand-Myanmar border
Points of political crisis in Myanmar’s history have been the catalyst for forced migration, and the Thailand-Myanmar border has, for decades, been a site of significant border-crossing. But while tens of thousands arrived in Thailand in the aftermath of previous crackdowns by Myanmar’s military, the severity of the February 2021 coup has not been met with a commensurate increase in arrivals. What explains the difference? Over time, the border is…
Migrant Artists and Migrating Art from Myanmar
The violence enacted on the people of Myanmar over decades has been captured in photographs, performances, hip-hop and art of various mediums. The subjects of such art are as diverse as their messages, excoriating perpetrators, historical figures and the international community as an accomplice. While much of this work has been undertaken by those still within the borders of their countries, migrant artists have played a significant role in gener…
Toward a framework for assessing the 'global' and 'citizen' in global citizenship education in Australia and beyond
In addition to its influences across economic, geopolitical, and social spheres, globalization has given rise to the notion of a ‘global citizen’ who is able to understand a shifting and more internationalized world while moving fluidly through it. Education has been trumpeted as the means to achieve this globally-aware citizenry, leading to an entire field of global citizenship education (GCE). Here teachers are the linchpin, yet understandings …
Art is happening in Myanmar, and outside of it
This article examines a form of activism in Myanmar that emerged after the 2021 coup: solidarity art, wherein art is sold overseas and the proceeds returned to the artists that produced it. Myanmar’s solidarity art demonstrates a new version of the phenomenon, where digital transmission replaces older modes of distribution, and the artwork is displayed publicly. While artwork of this nature may be useful, it requires interrogation because of the …
Voluntourism and the contract corrective
Critiques of the voluntourism industry focus on power imbalances, colonial legacies and white privilege. Drawing on the literatures of development and voluntourism to find points of comparison, we argue that the voluntourism industry reflects myriad development problems, such as structural challenges, the fungibility of aid, corruption, representation, worker narratives and temporality. We assert that many of the problems inherent in voluntourism…
The spatial dimensions of migrant politics
This Special Issue examines the interplay between physical space and sociopolitical forces in shaping migrant politics, emphasizing the role of borders as both mechanisms of control and sites of resistance. Moving beyond static geographical boundaries, we conceptualize borders through bordering practices that restrict access to territories, resources, and rights via formal and informal governance mechanisms. These include laws, policies, exclusio…
Cedaw is Up in the Sky
Since its adoption in 1979, the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has provided a critical framework for holding governments accountable for addressing gender discrimination and advancing women's rights. However, structural inequalities significantly restrict the ability of marginalised groups, particularly Indigenous and Ethnic Minority (IEM) women, to engage with CEDAW and similar high-level ad…
Refugee Mobilization in the Nepal–India Borderlands
For more than a decade, the India–Nepal border played a central role as a site of resistance for Bhutan’s refugees. It served as a conduit through which materials and information were exchanged and demonstrations were planned and carried out. Key to the undertaking of these activities was the border’s porosity, which, I argue, is an overlooked opportunity structure in homeland activism. In this article, I draw on borderland theories and empirical…
Teaching Human Rights at the Tertiary Level
This article describes a five-pointed approach to teaching human rights at the tertiary level. This approach points to the need for human rights education that: 1) offers abilities and capacities that complement legal approaches; 2) provides students with the tools to grasp the root causes of violations; 3) incorporates learning on local, national, regional, and international levels; 4) includes significant collaborative opportunities; and 5) off…
Contested Regimes, Aid Flows, and Refugee Flows
There is a substantial literature that critiques the role that international aid plays in lending support to oppressive and contested regimes. But few investigators have asked the inverse question: what happens when aid is withdrawn? Following government oppression in 1988, international aid to Burma decreased significantly, providing a case study enabling this question to be addressed. Using Burma as an example, this article asks: if the presenc…
Burmese Refugees in Tokyo
This paper explores the consequences of Japan's refugee policy for Burmese refugees living in Tokyo by examining refugees' livelihoods and responses to the immigration/refugee legal system. It begins with a description of Japan's legal framework as it pertains to immigrants and refugees, then examines four elements of refugees' livelihoods in Tokyo: employment, housing, health care and education. Tokyo's urban environment enables Burmese refugees…
The Triad of Transnationalism, Legal Recognition, and Local Community
Refugee participation in transnational acts – from advocating for regime change in home countries to strengthening modes of safe passage for friends and family to host countries – is only as effective as the ability of refugees to organize, collaborate with one another, and develop strong communication links between communities in the home and host countries. While many assume that legal status improves the ability of refugees to engage in politi…
Contested Regimes, Aid Flows, and Refugee Flows
There is a substantial literature that critiques the role that international aid plays in lending support to oppressive and contested regimes. But few investigators have asked the inverse question: what happens when aid is withdrawn? Following government oppression in 1988, international aid to Burma decreased significantly, providing a case study enabling this question to be addressed. Using Burma as an example, this article asks: if the presenc…
Urbanity, Precarity, and Homeland Activism. Burmese Migrants in Global Cities
This article interrogates the link between urbanity and “precarity of place” for non-citizen populations, relying on evidence drawn from the transnational homeland activities of Burmese migrants in two global cities (Bangkok and Tokyo). First, the article builds upon literatures of precarity and global cities to detail the complexity of urban spaces in relation to migration, and draws upon understandings of political mobilisation to explain homel…
Teaching Human Rights at the Tertiary Level
This article describes a five-pointed approach to teaching human rights at the tertiary level. This approach points to the need for human rights education that: 1) offers abilities and capacities that complement legal approaches; 2) provides students with the tools to grasp the root causes of violations; 3) incorporates learning on local, national, regional, and international levels; 4) includes significant collaborative opportunities; and 5) off…
Teaching Human Rights at the Tertiary Level
Critiques of the voluntourism industry focus on power imbalances, colonial legacies, and white privilege. Drawing on the literatures of development and voluntourism to find points of comparison, we argue that the voluntourism industry reflects myriad de-velopment problems, such as structural challenges, the fungibility of aid, corruption, representation, worker narratives, and temporality. We assert that many of the prob-lems inherent in voluntou…
Voluntourism and the contract corrective
Critiques of the voluntourism industry focus on power imbalances, colonial legacies and white privilege. Drawing on the literatures of development and voluntourism to find points of comparison, we argue that the voluntourism industry reflects myriad development problems, such as structural challenges, the fungibility of aid, corruption, representation, worker narratives and temporality. We assert that many of the problems inherent in voluntourism…
Myanmar
For scholars of Southeast Asia interested in human rights, Myanmar is a country that ‘has it all.’ I use this tongue-in-cheek expression to suggest the myriad ways that the country remains mired in structural challenges that inform its current human rights problems. In this paper, I point out the country’s most glaring structural challenges and link these to its most pressing human rights problems. A brief section about Myanmar in the context of …
Practicing what we teach
As innovative pedagogies such as experiential learning unsettle traditional assumptions about tertiary teaching, a deeper understanding of how teachers experience such shifts is required. Whilst the literature emphasizes that effective experiential learning should entail transformative educational experiences for students, less attention is paid to the implications for educators. Through a collaborative autoethnographic approach, this research ex…
Toward a framework for assessing the 'global' and 'citizen' in global citizenship education in Australia and beyond
In addition to its influences across economic, geopolitical, and social spheres, globalization has given rise to the notion of a ‘global citizen’ who is able to understand a shifting and more internationalized world while moving fluidly through it. Education has been trumpeted as the means to achieve this globally-aware citizenry, leading to an entire field of global citizenship education (GCE). Here teachers are the linchpin, yet understandings …
Art is happening in Myanmar, and outside of it
This article examines a form of activism in Myanmar that emerged after the 2021 coup: solidarity art, wherein art is sold overseas and the proceeds returned to the artists that produced it. Myanmar’s solidarity art demonstrates a new version of the phenomenon, where digital transmission replaces older modes of distribution, and the artwork is displayed publicly. While artwork of this nature may be useful, it requires interrogation because of the …
Refracting rights from the margins
Refugee Mobilization in the Nepal–India Borderlands
For more than a decade, the India–Nepal border played a central role as a site of resistance for Bhutan’s refugees. It served as a conduit through which materials and information were exchanged and demonstrations were planned and carried out. Key to the undertaking of these activities was the border’s porosity, which, I argue, is an overlooked opportunity structure in homeland activism. In this article, I draw on borderland theories and empirical…
Bhutan’s Democratic Growing Pains
Bhutan has attracted international attention by pioneering the Gross National Happiness index, gaining a reputation for promoting holistic societal well-being instead of the more typical focus on economic growth. Yet a decade and a half since becoming a democracy, Bhutan is experiencing growing pains. A dearth of job opportunities has prompted more young people to emigrate. And minority rights are still not secure, particularly those of Nepali-sp…
Aligned and shifting identities in distant diasporas
The diaspora literature regularly examines identity shifts and remakings through experiences of displacement. Multigenerational diasporas, however, complicate these shifts due to differing contexts of education, history and resettlement experience between younger and older generations. How does diaspora identity continue across generations, and where does it shift in distant diasporas? This article examines the ways that the identities of former …
The spatial dimensions of migrant politics
This Special Issue examines the interplay between physical space and sociopolitical forces in shaping migrant politics, emphasizing the role of borders as both mechanisms of control and sites of resistance. Moving beyond static geographical boundaries, we conceptualize borders through bordering practices that restrict access to territories, resources, and rights via formal and informal governance mechanisms. These include laws, policies, exclusio…
Porosity on the Thailand-Myanmar border
Points of political crisis in Myanmar’s history have been the catalyst for forced migration, and the Thailand-Myanmar border has, for decades, been a site of significant border-crossing. But while tens of thousands arrived in Thailand in the aftermath of previous crackdowns by Myanmar’s military, the severity of the February 2021 coup has not been met with a commensurate increase in arrivals. What explains the difference? Over time, the border is…
Migrant Artists and Migrating Art from Myanmar
The violence enacted on the people of Myanmar over decades has been captured in photographs, performances, hip-hop and art of various mediums. The subjects of such art are as diverse as their messages, excoriating perpetrators, historical figures and the international community as an accomplice. While much of this work has been undertaken by those still within the borders of their countries, migrant artists have played a significant role in gener…
Cedaw is Up in the Sky
Since its adoption in 1979, the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has provided a critical framework for holding governments accountable for addressing gender discrimination and advancing women's rights. However, structural inequalities significantly restrict the ability of marginalised groups, particularly Indigenous and Ethnic Minority (IEM) women, to engage with CEDAW and similar high-level ad…
Compelled exile performances
For those who flee into exile, transnational repression creates particular forms of tension around the public activities that exiles often feel they must perform. This paper explores that tension, focusing on two forms of compelled exile performance: highlighting home country abuses and initiating claims for asylum. The paper begins by sketching the connective tissue that brings precarity, performance and transnational repression into a dynamic r…
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