Jayde Lin Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 291272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jayde Lin Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jayde Lin |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5287-658X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Placemaking in an almost post-authoritarian Myanmar: Questioning “best practice” in Yangon’s back drainage spaces
This article critiques the promotion of placemaking as “best practice” in global South cities by analyzing the short-lived beautification of back drainage spaces into back-alley gardens in Yangon, Myanmar. The rise and fall of the Alley Garden Project (AGP) show how decontextualized and depoliticized “participation” can entrench power hierarchies and enable the state to disregard its responsibilities. In global peripheries where state-society rel…
Heritage as boundary object: The troubling potential of the Secretariat in Yangon, Myanmar
In Yangon, Myanmar, urban heritage has been deployed to mean material objects capable of both recalling history and producing a better future. This article examines the ‘heritagisation’ of the Secretariat during the so-called ‘transition’, even as ‘transition’ and ‘heritagisation’ were intertwined ideas and discursive tactics that capitalised on the temporary retreat of military autocracy. We use the term ‘heritagisation’ to indicate a process wh…
The secular/religious construction of neighbourhoods in Mandalay, Myanmar: Dhamma‐youns and wards
This article examines the entangled secular/religious construction of neighbourhoods in Mandalay as dynamic, people‐based and relational processes that are centred in dhamma‐youns (dhamma halls) which work within and across administrative ward boundaries. Cities in Myanmar have not followed the trajectories of urbanisation documented in the global North and its socio‐spatial relationships are inextricably bound to the Theravadin Buddhist lifeworl…
Myanmar’s hidden-in-plain-sight social infrastructure: Nalehmu Through Multiple Ruptures
This article examines nalehmu, a set of informal relational practices for negotiating power across scales which have facilitated access and enforced accountability through mutually recognized norms and social sanctions in Myanmar. Like Asef Bayat’s “quiet encroachment” in the Middle East, nalehmu is Myanmar’s discreet and prolonged practice of agency that has enabled ordinary people to survive and better their lives despite the multiple ruptures …
Displacement, Encroachment and Settlement: Interrogating Kyu in Peri-Urban Yangon
This article interrogates the meaning of kyukyaw, often shortened as kyu, a Burmese word that is used as both a verb-to occupy or encroach-and a noun-squatter or slum. This deployment of language demands attention because kyu evokes strong negative sentiments, despite its ambiguity. The rapid pace of change in post-junta Myanmar has compelled both the elite and the marginalized to seek rightness through the notion of rule of law, even though cust…
Place‐Making
Place‐making is an assemblage of related concepts and practices predicated on the phenomenon of place. Although scholars have mostly focused on human actions in particular locations and have prioritized the significance of materiality, some have argued that place is porous and multiscalar and contains multiple human and nonhuman actors. As a process, it can be conceived of as a bundle of numerous actors rather than as a prescribed territory. As p…
Urban
This chapter focuses on the making of the urban in Myanmar as a contingent and contested process that is increasingly subjected to international circuits of authoritative knowledge. In much of the literature about the effects of neoliberal globalisation, scholars call attention to the disenfranchisement of urban residents and the privatisation of public institutions. In the case of contemporary Myanmar, neither urban nor rural residents have ever…
C arol A nn B oshier . Mapping Cultural Nationalism: The Scholars of the Burma Research Society, 1910–1935
Carol Ann Boshier’s Mapping Cultural Nationalism: The Scholars of the Burma Research Society, 1910–1935, is a welcome addition to Myanmar studies that begins to fill a gaping hole in the country’s intellectual history. English-language scholarship about Myanmar has tended to focus on political economy, religion, and ethnicity with scant attention to the production of knowledge, leaving unexamined questions of authorship and authority. By analyzin…
Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Myanmar’s hidden-in-plain-sight social infrastructure: Nalehmu Through Multiple Ruptures
This article examines nalehmu, a set of informal relational practices for negotiating power across scales which have facilitated access and enforced accountability through mutually recognized norms and social sanctions in Myanmar. Like Asef Bayat’s “quiet encroachment” in the Middle East, nalehmu is Myanmar’s discreet and prolonged practice of agency that has enabled ordinary people to survive and better their lives despite the multiple ruptures …
Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Displacement, Encroachment and Settlement: Interrogating Kyu in Peri-Urban Yangon
This article interrogates the meaning of kyukyaw, often shortened as kyu, a Burmese word that is used as both a verb-to occupy or encroach-and a noun-squatter or slum. This deployment of language demands attention because kyu evokes strong negative sentiments, despite its ambiguity. The rapid pace of change in post-junta Myanmar has compelled both the elite and the marginalized to seek rightness through the notion of rule of law, even though cust…
Heritage as boundary object: The troubling potential of the Secretariat in Yangon, Myanmar
In Yangon, Myanmar, urban heritage has been deployed to mean material objects capable of both recalling history and producing a better future. This article examines the ‘heritagisation’ of the Secretariat during the so-called ‘transition’, even as ‘transition’ and ‘heritagisation’ were intertwined ideas and discursive tactics that capitalised on the temporary retreat of military autocracy. We use the term ‘heritagisation’ to indicate a process wh…
The secular/religious construction of neighbourhoods in Mandalay, Myanmar: Dhamma‐youns and wards
This article examines the entangled secular/religious construction of neighbourhoods in Mandalay as dynamic, people‐based and relational processes that are centred in dhamma‐youns (dhamma halls) which work within and across administrative ward boundaries. Cities in Myanmar have not followed the trajectories of urbanisation documented in the global North and its socio‐spatial relationships are inextricably bound to the Theravadin Buddhist lifeworl…
Urban
This chapter focuses on the making of the urban in Myanmar as a contingent and contested process that is increasingly subjected to international circuits of authoritative knowledge. In much of the literature about the effects of neoliberal globalisation, scholars call attention to the disenfranchisement of urban residents and the privatisation of public institutions. In the case of contemporary Myanmar, neither urban nor rural residents have ever…
C arol A nn B oshier . Mapping Cultural Nationalism: The Scholars of the Burma Research Society, 1910–1935
Carol Ann Boshier’s Mapping Cultural Nationalism: The Scholars of the Burma Research Society, 1910–1935, is a welcome addition to Myanmar studies that begins to fill a gaping hole in the country’s intellectual history. English-language scholarship about Myanmar has tended to focus on political economy, religion, and ethnicity with scant attention to the production of knowledge, leaving unexamined questions of authorship and authority. By analyzin…
Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Place‐Making
Place‐making is an assemblage of related concepts and practices predicated on the phenomenon of place. Although scholars have mostly focused on human actions in particular locations and have prioritized the significance of materiality, some have argued that place is porous and multiscalar and contains multiple human and nonhuman actors. As a process, it can be conceived of as a bundle of numerous actors rather than as a prescribed territory. As p…
Displacement, Encroachment and Settlement: Interrogating Kyu in Peri-Urban Yangon
This article interrogates the meaning of kyukyaw, often shortened as kyu, a Burmese word that is used as both a verb-to occupy or encroach-and a noun-squatter or slum. This deployment of language demands attention because kyu evokes strong negative sentiments, despite its ambiguity. The rapid pace of change in post-junta Myanmar has compelled both the elite and the marginalized to seek rightness through the notion of rule of law, even though cust…
Myanmar’s hidden-in-plain-sight social infrastructure: Nalehmu Through Multiple Ruptures
This article examines nalehmu, a set of informal relational practices for negotiating power across scales which have facilitated access and enforced accountability through mutually recognized norms and social sanctions in Myanmar. Like Asef Bayat’s “quiet encroachment” in the Middle East, nalehmu is Myanmar’s discreet and prolonged practice of agency that has enabled ordinary people to survive and better their lives despite the multiple ruptures …
The secular/religious construction of neighbourhoods in Mandalay, Myanmar: Dhamma‐youns and wards
This article examines the entangled secular/religious construction of neighbourhoods in Mandalay as dynamic, people‐based and relational processes that are centred in dhamma‐youns (dhamma halls) which work within and across administrative ward boundaries. Cities in Myanmar have not followed the trajectories of urbanisation documented in the global North and its socio‐spatial relationships are inextricably bound to the Theravadin Buddhist lifeworl…
Heritage as boundary object: The troubling potential of the Secretariat in Yangon, Myanmar
In Yangon, Myanmar, urban heritage has been deployed to mean material objects capable of both recalling history and producing a better future. This article examines the ‘heritagisation’ of the Secretariat during the so-called ‘transition’, even as ‘transition’ and ‘heritagisation’ were intertwined ideas and discursive tactics that capitalised on the temporary retreat of military autocracy. We use the term ‘heritagisation’ to indicate a process wh…
Placemaking in an almost post-authoritarian Myanmar: Questioning “best practice” in Yangon’s back drainage spaces
This article critiques the promotion of placemaking as “best practice” in global South cities by analyzing the short-lived beautification of back drainage spaces into back-alley gardens in Yangon, Myanmar. The rise and fall of the Alley Garden Project (AGP) show how decontextualized and depoliticized “participation” can entrench power hierarchies and enable the state to disregard its responsibilities. In global peripheries where state-society rel…
Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)