Michael R Dunford
Biographic Data
| ID | 4139890 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael R Dunford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael R |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunford |
| SIGNATURE | DUNFORD M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2475-2632 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mandala logic: Mytho‐praxis as vernacular political theory in Myanmar
This article argues that myth‐making is a form of vernacular social theory, a way of producing conceptual arguments about how social formations work and what is at stake in them. I focus on a myth from Myanmar, the Myth of the Tea Seeds, and its attendant ritual complex, which culminates in an annual religious festival in the highland town of Namhsan. Drawing on the so‐called ‘mandala model’, a classic historiographic approach for the study of So…
Learning to Dream at the End of Time
This review is an attempt to account for the methodological interventions accomplished by Sophie Chao’s In the Shadow of the Palms: More-than-Human Becomings in Western Papua (2022). The book exper
Indigeneity, ethnopolitics, and taingyinthar: Myanmar and the global Indigenous Peoples’ movement
In Myanmar, the idea of ‘indigeneity’ has been mobilised in two radically different ways. Ethnonationalist groups such as the Chin National Front and the Karen National Union have utilised the concept to lobby for increased autonomy in international forums such as the United Nations, while the Burmese state has used the idea of indigeneity (or native-ness, typically translated as taingyinthar in Burmese) to exclude certain minorities — most promi…
Indigeneity, ethnopolitics, and taingyinthar: Myanmar and the global Indigenous Peoples’ movement
In Myanmar, the idea of ‘indigeneity’ has been mobilised in two radically different ways. Ethnonationalist groups such as the Chin National Front and the Karen National Union have utilised the concept to lobby for increased autonomy in international forums such as the United Nations, while the Burmese state has used the idea of indigeneity (or native-ness, typically translated as taingyinthar in Burmese) to exclude certain minorities — most promi…
Indigeneity, ethnopolitics, and taingyinthar: Myanmar and the global Indigenous Peoples’ movement
In Myanmar, the idea of ‘indigeneity’ has been mobilised in two radically different ways. Ethnonationalist groups such as the Chin National Front and the Karen National Union have utilised the concept to lobby for increased autonomy in international forums such as the United Nations, while the Burmese state has used the idea of indigeneity (or native-ness, typically translated as taingyinthar in Burmese) to exclude certain minorities — most promi…
Learning to Dream at the End of Time
This review is an attempt to account for the methodological interventions accomplished by Sophie Chao’s In the Shadow of the Palms: More-than-Human Becomings in Western Papua (2022). The book exper
Mandala logic: Mytho‐praxis as vernacular political theory in Myanmar
This article argues that myth‐making is a form of vernacular social theory, a way of producing conceptual arguments about how social formations work and what is at stake in them. I focus on a myth from Myanmar, the Myth of the Tea Seeds, and its attendant ritual complex, which culminates in an annual religious festival in the highland town of Namhsan. Drawing on the so‐called ‘mandala model’, a classic historiographic approach for the study of So…
Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (2 works) · Adult and Continuing Education Topics (1 works) · Asian Studies and History (1 works) · Autonomy (1 works) · Burmese (1 works) · Cambodian History and Society (1 works) · Coercion (linguistics) (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works)