G R Aung
Biographic Data
| ID | 66767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G R Aung |
| GIVEN NAMES | G R |
| FAMILY NAME | Aung |
| SIGNATURE | AUNG G R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9648-4334 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Capitalism, empire, and the worlds that plantations make
Logistical turbulence: Between valorization and violence along the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor
A pivotal Belt and Road project, the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) includes port, pipeline, economic zone, and transport projects that cut across Myanmar to southern China. Along this corridor, severe episodes of violence have shadowed the CMEC: communal violence, insurgencies, and counter-insurgencies, including atrocities against Rohingya Muslims. This article considers the relation-direct and indirect-between the logistical infrastruc…
Bringing imperialism back in: For an Anthropology Against Empire in the Twenty-First Century
What can a critical analysis of imperialist political economy offer the decolonial turn in the contemporary social sciences? How might revisiting "classic" anti-imperialist thought and politics from the global South push scholars and activists to envision a more revolutionary decolonization? And how, in our discipline's history, have anthropologists variously opposed or been complicit with the workings of imperialist power? In this article, and i…
The Myanmar radical tradition: Revolution, Reaction, and the Changing Imperial World Order
This article historicizes and conceptualizes the Myanmar radical tradition: a tradition of thought and practice that has animated radical politics across Myanmar's twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From anti-colonial struggle to decolonization, and from communist insurgency to left feminism, ethnic rebellion, and today's revolutionary upsurge following the 2021 coup d'état, this radical tradition is best understood not as something bounded or…
The frontier in heterogeneous time: Finance, Temporality, and an Economic Zone on Hold
This article follows the history of the Dawei special economic zone (SEZ), a port, industrial zone, and logistics project located in Myanmar’s southern borderlands. Suspended in 2013 due to financing shortfalls and public criticism, the Dawei project’s implementation has been far from straightforward. This article dwells on the non-linear temporality of the project, focusing on the problem of financing. It is there, above all, that project propon…
A “becoming logistical” of anthropology
Dua, Jatin. 2019. Captured at sea: Piracy and protection in the Indian Ocean . Oakland, CA: University of California Press. Appel, Hannah. 2019. The licit life of capitalism . Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Sopranzetti, Claudio. 2018. Owners of the map: Motorcycle taxi drivers, mobility, and politics in Bangkok . Oakland, CA: University of California Press
Postcolonial Capitalism and the Politics of Dispossession: Political Trajectories in Southern Myanmar
This article examines the trajectory of struggles over land and resources in Dawei, a town in southern Myanmar. The site of a major special economic zone project, Dawei has seen sustained mobilisation around displacement, dispossession and environmental degradation, against the backdrop of national political and economic reforms. Recently, scholars have argued that earlier visions of postcolonial transition have lost their empirical and political…
Postcolonial Capitalism and the Politics of Dispossession: Political Trajectories in Southern Myanmar
This article examines the trajectory of struggles over land and resources in Dawei, a town in southern Myanmar. The site of a major special economic zone project, Dawei has seen sustained mobilisation around displacement, dispossession and environmental degradation, against the backdrop of national political and economic reforms. Recently, scholars have argued that earlier visions of postcolonial transition have lost their empirical and political…
The frontier in heterogeneous time: Finance, Temporality, and an Economic Zone on Hold
This article follows the history of the Dawei special economic zone (SEZ), a port, industrial zone, and logistics project located in Myanmar’s southern borderlands. Suspended in 2013 due to financing shortfalls and public criticism, the Dawei project’s implementation has been far from straightforward. This article dwells on the non-linear temporality of the project, focusing on the problem of financing. It is there, above all, that project propon…
Logistical turbulence: Between valorization and violence along the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor
A pivotal Belt and Road project, the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) includes port, pipeline, economic zone, and transport projects that cut across Myanmar to southern China. Along this corridor, severe episodes of violence have shadowed the CMEC: communal violence, insurgencies, and counter-insurgencies, including atrocities against Rohingya Muslims. This article considers the relation-direct and indirect-between the logistical infrastruc…
Bringing imperialism back in: For an Anthropology Against Empire in the Twenty-First Century
What can a critical analysis of imperialist political economy offer the decolonial turn in the contemporary social sciences? How might revisiting "classic" anti-imperialist thought and politics from the global South push scholars and activists to envision a more revolutionary decolonization? And how, in our discipline's history, have anthropologists variously opposed or been complicit with the workings of imperialist power? In this article, and i…
The Myanmar radical tradition: Revolution, Reaction, and the Changing Imperial World Order
This article historicizes and conceptualizes the Myanmar radical tradition: a tradition of thought and practice that has animated radical politics across Myanmar's twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From anti-colonial struggle to decolonization, and from communist insurgency to left feminism, ethnic rebellion, and today's revolutionary upsurge following the 2021 coup d'état, this radical tradition is best understood not as something bounded or…
Postcolonial Capitalism and the Politics of Dispossession: Political Trajectories in Southern Myanmar
This article examines the trajectory of struggles over land and resources in Dawei, a town in southern Myanmar. The site of a major special economic zone project, Dawei has seen sustained mobilisation around displacement, dispossession and environmental degradation, against the backdrop of national political and economic reforms. Recently, scholars have argued that earlier visions of postcolonial transition have lost their empirical and political…
A “becoming logistical” of anthropology
Dua, Jatin. 2019. Captured at sea: Piracy and protection in the Indian Ocean . Oakland, CA: University of California Press. Appel, Hannah. 2019. The licit life of capitalism . Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Sopranzetti, Claudio. 2018. Owners of the map: Motorcycle taxi drivers, mobility, and politics in Bangkok . Oakland, CA: University of California Press
The frontier in heterogeneous time: Finance, Temporality, and an Economic Zone on Hold
This article follows the history of the Dawei special economic zone (SEZ), a port, industrial zone, and logistics project located in Myanmar’s southern borderlands. Suspended in 2013 due to financing shortfalls and public criticism, the Dawei project’s implementation has been far from straightforward. This article dwells on the non-linear temporality of the project, focusing on the problem of financing. It is there, above all, that project propon…
Logistical turbulence: Between valorization and violence along the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor
A pivotal Belt and Road project, the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) includes port, pipeline, economic zone, and transport projects that cut across Myanmar to southern China. Along this corridor, severe episodes of violence have shadowed the CMEC: communal violence, insurgencies, and counter-insurgencies, including atrocities against Rohingya Muslims. This article considers the relation-direct and indirect-between the logistical infrastruc…
Bringing imperialism back in: For an Anthropology Against Empire in the Twenty-First Century
What can a critical analysis of imperialist political economy offer the decolonial turn in the contemporary social sciences? How might revisiting "classic" anti-imperialist thought and politics from the global South push scholars and activists to envision a more revolutionary decolonization? And how, in our discipline's history, have anthropologists variously opposed or been complicit with the workings of imperialist power? In this article, and i…
The Myanmar radical tradition: Revolution, Reaction, and the Changing Imperial World Order
This article historicizes and conceptualizes the Myanmar radical tradition: a tradition of thought and practice that has animated radical politics across Myanmar's twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From anti-colonial struggle to decolonization, and from communist insurgency to left feminism, ethnic rebellion, and today's revolutionary upsurge following the 2021 coup d'état, this radical tradition is best understood not as something bounded or…
Capitalism, empire, and the worlds that plantations make
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (4 works) · Capitalism (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works)