Darker than midnight

Fear, vulnerability, and terror making in urban Burma (Myanmar)

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2468675
AutoresMonique Skidmore (0000-0002-6396-9519, University of Notre Dame, autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen30
Número1
Páginas5-21
Fecha de publicación2003-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.2003.30.1.5
OpenAlexW2168982353
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas41
Referencias citadas33

The Burmese military State constructs fear and vulnerability among its citizenry through the strategic use of political violence. Fear is inherently temporal and, unlike despair, requires that one have the ability to envisage alternatives to a future of complete domination. Burmese people strive not to express fear, and the anthropologist's articulation of fear contrasts with the silence that fear engenders among them. In this article I reflect on strategies for the ethical collection of experiences of fear in situations where suppressing or denying fear is the most common survival strategy. [Burma, Myanmar, violence, fear, state construction of affect, vulnerability, time

Aesthetics · Articulation (sociology · Burmese · Computer security · Criminology · Fear of crime · Midnight · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Silence · Sociology · State (computer science · Vulnerability (computing · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Cambodian History and Society · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies