Nyi Nyi Kyaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 3648296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nyi Nyi Kyaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nyi Nyi |
| FAMILY NAME | Kyaw |
| SIGNATURE | KYAW N N |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5834-6229 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Revolutionary resistance against full autocratization. Actors and strategies of resistance after the 2021 military coup in Myanmar
Resistance against autocratization is an important contemporary issue that calls for increased scholarly attention. The global wave of autocratization has generated a proliferation of research on the drivers of autocratization, but fewer studies on the possibilities, strategies, spatialities, and effectiveness of resistance. This article responds to these knowledge needs through a case study of revolutionary resistance against full autocratizatio…
Covid-19 and China’s attempts to build a health silk road to Myanmar
The Excuse of (Il)legality in Discriminating and Persecuting Religious Minorities
This article highlights the convenient excuse of (il)legality used by (1) religious majoritarian mobs to justify attacks against places of worship and religious buildings of minorities; and (2) police and local authorities to absolve themselves of the failure to uphold public order and the rule of law, protect religious minorities, and to punish religious minorities. This article traces the emergence of legal violence in the form of anti-mosque v…
Social Media, Hate Speech and Fake News during Myanmar’s Political Transition
Myanmar in 2019
“Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia. In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the region’s dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts. It is…
Adulteration of pure native blood by aliens? mixed racekapyain colonial and post-Colonial Myanmar
Colonization may be viewed not only as loss of sovereignty and territory but also of ‘purity’ of a native race to an alien power. After the British colonized Burma in the late nineteenth century, they brought in Chinese and Indians to the sparsely populated colony as labour for new administrative and economic activities. Intermarriage, mainly between native Burmese women and men of alien races – British, European, Chinese and Indian – was thus in…
Unpacking the Presumed Statelessness of Rohingyas
The decades-old Rohingya problem, which has affected Myanmar and other Southeast Asia countries, has long been defined in terms of forced migration, statelessness, and humanitarian crisis. As the problems involving Rohingya refugees, forced migrants, and internally displaced persons are commonly believed to have stemmed from the highly discriminatory 1982 Citizenship Law, international advocacy has focused on amending or repealing the law as the …
Alienation, Discrimination, and Securitization
Since 2010 Myanmar has undergone a series of significant political and social reforms initiated by the U Thein Sein administration. Largely unexpected under the shadow of the notoriously repressive
Unpacking the Presumed Statelessness of Rohingyas
The decades-old Rohingya problem, which has affected Myanmar and other Southeast Asia countries, has long been defined in terms of forced migration, statelessness, and humanitarian crisis. As the problems involving Rohingya refugees, forced migrants, and internally displaced persons are commonly believed to have stemmed from the highly discriminatory 1982 Citizenship Law, international advocacy has focused on amending or repealing the law as the …
Alienation, Discrimination, and Securitization
Since 2010 Myanmar has undergone a series of significant political and social reforms initiated by the U Thein Sein administration. Largely unexpected under the shadow of the notoriously repressive
Adulteration of pure native blood by aliens? mixed racekapyain colonial and post-Colonial Myanmar
Colonization may be viewed not only as loss of sovereignty and territory but also of ‘purity’ of a native race to an alien power. After the British colonized Burma in the late nineteenth century, they brought in Chinese and Indians to the sparsely populated colony as labour for new administrative and economic activities. Intermarriage, mainly between native Burmese women and men of alien races – British, European, Chinese and Indian – was thus in…
The Excuse of (Il)legality in Discriminating and Persecuting Religious Minorities
This article highlights the convenient excuse of (il)legality used by (1) religious majoritarian mobs to justify attacks against places of worship and religious buildings of minorities; and (2) police and local authorities to absolve themselves of the failure to uphold public order and the rule of law, protect religious minorities, and to punish religious minorities. This article traces the emergence of legal violence in the form of anti-mosque v…
Revolutionary resistance against full autocratization. Actors and strategies of resistance after the 2021 military coup in Myanmar
Resistance against autocratization is an important contemporary issue that calls for increased scholarly attention. The global wave of autocratization has generated a proliferation of research on the drivers of autocratization, but fewer studies on the possibilities, strategies, spatialities, and effectiveness of resistance. This article responds to these knowledge needs through a case study of revolutionary resistance against full autocratizatio…
Alienation, Discrimination, and Securitization
Since 2010 Myanmar has undergone a series of significant political and social reforms initiated by the U Thein Sein administration. Largely unexpected under the shadow of the notoriously repressive
Unpacking the Presumed Statelessness of Rohingyas
The decades-old Rohingya problem, which has affected Myanmar and other Southeast Asia countries, has long been defined in terms of forced migration, statelessness, and humanitarian crisis. As the problems involving Rohingya refugees, forced migrants, and internally displaced persons are commonly believed to have stemmed from the highly discriminatory 1982 Citizenship Law, international advocacy has focused on amending or repealing the law as the …
Adulteration of pure native blood by aliens? mixed racekapyain colonial and post-Colonial Myanmar
Colonization may be viewed not only as loss of sovereignty and territory but also of ‘purity’ of a native race to an alien power. After the British colonized Burma in the late nineteenth century, they brought in Chinese and Indians to the sparsely populated colony as labour for new administrative and economic activities. Intermarriage, mainly between native Burmese women and men of alien races – British, European, Chinese and Indian – was thus in…
Social Media, Hate Speech and Fake News during Myanmar’s Political Transition
Myanmar in 2019
“Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia. In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the region’s dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts. It is…
Covid-19 and China’s attempts to build a health silk road to Myanmar
The Excuse of (Il)legality in Discriminating and Persecuting Religious Minorities
This article highlights the convenient excuse of (il)legality used by (1) religious majoritarian mobs to justify attacks against places of worship and religious buildings of minorities; and (2) police and local authorities to absolve themselves of the failure to uphold public order and the rule of law, protect religious minorities, and to punish religious minorities. This article traces the emergence of legal violence in the form of anti-mosque v…
Revolutionary resistance against full autocratization. Actors and strategies of resistance after the 2021 military coup in Myanmar
Resistance against autocratization is an important contemporary issue that calls for increased scholarly attention. The global wave of autocratization has generated a proliferation of research on the drivers of autocratization, but fewer studies on the possibilities, strategies, spatialities, and effectiveness of resistance. This article responds to these knowledge needs through a case study of revolutionary resistance against full autocratizatio…
Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Cambodian History and Society (3 works) · International Law and Human Rights (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development (2 works) · Business (2 works)