Renaud Egreteau
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 183758 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Renaud Egreteau |
| PRENOMES | Renaud |
| SOBRENOME | Egreteau |
| ASSINATURA | EGRETEAU R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8222-6737 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 138 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
How contentious repertoires travel
This article traces the introduction of hunger strikes into the contentious politics of late colonial Burma. Building on a critical reading of British archival records, it reveals how colonial authorities in Rangoon observed and interpreted the nascent dissemination of this tactical repertoire within the Burmese province. The study highlights three key findings. First, it points to the pivotal role of pioneering brokers, particularly well-travell…
Fasting as Commemorative Strategy
This article adds to the literature considering hunger strikes as performances of resistance. It presents the action of fasting not merely as a form of protest, but also as a strategy for commemorating past struggles and producing movement memory during periods of abeyance. To do so, it leverages a case study on Myanmar under both colonial and military rule. The study draws on archival records and interviews with Burmese activists who staged hung…
Antagonistic framing and the social exclusion of Rohingya in Myanmar’s parliamentary discourses (2011–2021)
How Legislators Frame Contentious Megaprojects
Little is known about how legislative actors engage with social movements in framing contests over conflictual policy issues. This article investigates the case of Myanmar and enquires into how such framing activity can play out in a resurgent legislature. It focuses on two megaprojects that generated intense public debate during the country’s decade of liberalisation (2011–2021): the Letpadaung mines and the Myitsone dam. It builds on the analys…
A Disciplined Dissident—Aung San Suu Kyi as Opposition Backbencher (2012–2016)
This article investigates the legislative activity of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's iconic dissident, during her inaugural tenure as opposition MP in the country’s first post-junta parliament (2012–2016). How did such a totemic figure behave in a legislature dominated by an army-backed party and military-appointed MPs? What legislative tools did she use? The study draws evidence from Burmese-language proceedings of Myanmar’s Union legislature and f…
Profile
This profile sheds light on the recent episode of contention triggered in Myanmar by the coup of 1 February 2021. Building on Tilly’s concept of repertoire, it maps out and describes some of the ways anti-coup protesters have been mobilized into contentious collective action. It points to inherited patterns of protest that are culturally specific to Myanmar. Historically forged repertoires of contention, such as call-and-response chants, silent s…
Why veterans lose
Retired military officers often continue to wield significant influence in regimes built after the end of junta rule, sometimes helping to bridge enduring civil–military divides. Myanmar’s recent legislative elections offers a counterintuitive case. There has been a rapidly decreasing influence of military retirees in the electoral landscape shaped in the 2010s. I reveal this decline using data on the sociological background of candidates for the…
The Inchoate Legislative Scrutiny of the Myanmar Police Forces
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
Parliamentary rituals, institutional continuity, and the reinvention of political traditions in Myanmar
Shedding light on an understudied aspect of Myanmar's institutional history, this study interrogates the perpetuation of parliamentary rituals in the country's successive postcolonial legislatures. It focuses on two ritualised ceremonies: the oath taken by new members of parliaments and the mace-bearing spectacle marking the opening of the daily session. Their maintenance, re-appropriation and re-designing under Myanmar's different post-independe…
Towards Legislative Institutionalisation? Emerging Patterns of Routinisation in Myanmar’s Parliament
This article investigates the patterns of parliamentary change observed in Myanmar since a constitutionally sanctioned, partially elected legislature was revived in January 2011. In particular, it poses the question as to whether processes of legislative institutionalisation have taken place in the course of the 2010s. Grounded on ethnographic work carried out between 2013 and 2018 in Myanmar’s Union parliament, established in Naypyitaw, the arti…
Fashioning Parliament
This article discusses the significance of dress codes and clothing in postcolonial Myanmar’s successive legislatures. Burmese representatives have since the 1950s been strongly encouraged to wear dignified garb and non-Western dress when carrying out their duties in parliament. What does it tell us? The contribution of this study based on field interviews and the analysis of newspaper reports and parliamentary procedures, is threefold. It first …
Neighbourhood
The political geography that post-independence Myanmar inherited from the British presented some formidable challenges. Ethnic and communist insurgents developed large-scale underground networks across the borders with China, Thailand, India, Laos and even Bangladesh where they found sympathy, if not open political support, for their struggle against Myanmar&s;s central authorities and other rival ethnic armed groups. Conflict, asymmetric threat …
Legislature
This chapter focuses on the complexities of Myanmar&s;s re-emergence of national and local legislative politics since 2010. The development of representative institutions in Myanmar was a rather slow and quite erratic process during the course of the twentieth century. In 1923, the British established a unicameral Legislative Council for Burma, replicating a set of reforms implemented in their other Indian colonies in 1919. The 2008 Constitution …
‘China is Paradise’
Caretaking Democratization
Caretaking Democratization: The Military and Political Changein Myanmar. By Renaud Egreteau. London: Hurst & Co, 2016. Hardcover: 193pp
Caretaking Democratization
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…
Power, cultural nationalism, and postcolonial public architecture
This article focuses on the contested, and frequently postponed, construction of a new parliament house in postcolonial Myanmar. Since the late colonial period, the country’s legislative bodies have convened in four different buildings, three located in the former capital Yangon and the latest one in Naypyitaw. Drawing on legislative proceedings and media reports, this study interrogates the relationship between decolonisation, national identity,…
Caretaking Democratization
This book examines the political landscape that followed the 2010 elections in Myanmar and the subsequent transition from direct military rule to a semi-civilian, ‘hybrid’ regime. Striking political, social, and economic transformations have indeed taken place in the long-isolated country since the military junta disbanded in March 2011. To better construe – and question – what has routinely been labelled a ‘Burmese Spring’, the book examines the…
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Who Are the Military Delegates in Myanmar's 2010-2015 Union Legislature
Made available in 2012, short biographies of 166 officers permit examination of the sociological profiles of the Burmese military officers seconded to Myanmar’s Union parliament. Data cover the five socio-demographic variables of gender, age, ethnicity, religion and education, as well as the positions that these officers occupied at the time of their secondment to parliament. These data show that, as a group, the initial cohort of military legisl…
Legislators in Myanmar's First “Post-Junta” National Parliament (2010–2015)
In an attempt to better grasp the realities of Myanmar's national legislature, which was formed after the 2010 elections, this paper examines the personal profiles and social backgrounds of its elected and appointed members. I have sought to record data on the social composition of Myanmar's first “post-junta” parliament and provide a dataset for further comparative research on the resurgence of legislative affairs in the country. The study draws…
The Idealization of a Lost Paradise
India’s Vanishing “Burma Colonies”. Repatriation, Urban Citizenship, and (De)Mobilization of Indian Returnees from Burma (Myanmar) since the 1960s
Cet article s’intéresse aux communautés indiennes rapatriées de Birmanie entre les années 1960 et 1980. À partir de terrains de recherche récemment effectués en Inde, il examine l’environnement sociopolitique créé par ces populations indo-birmanes dans les espaces urbains (appelés Burma Colonies), spécialement aménagées par les autorités indiennes, en particulier à Madras, Calcutta et New Delhi. Les interviews ont révélé que ces populations ont s…
Narrating Democracy in Myanmar
Burmese Indians in contemporary Burma
This article seeks to explore the current role, significance and influence of Burmese Indian minorities in post-1988 Burma as well as the perceptions the Burmese indigenous society and elite have developed on them since the colonial era. British Burma (1826–1948) witnessed a massive immigration of Indian communities that disproportionately dominated Burma's colonial enterprise. A strong resentment thus arose among the Burman Buddhist majority, il…
Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma
Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma explores Burma's relations with the outside world since independence in 1948, and addresses the key question of the ongoing role of the military in Burma's foreign policy in a post-junta context. The co-authors, a political scientist and a former top Asia editor for the BBC, provide a fresh perspective on Burma's foreign and security policies, arguing that key elements of continuity underlie Burma's striking postco…
Profile
This profile sheds light on the recent episode of contention triggered in Myanmar by the coup of 1 February 2021. Building on Tilly’s concept of repertoire, it maps out and describes some of the ways anti-coup protesters have been mobilized into contentious collective action. It points to inherited patterns of protest that are culturally specific to Myanmar. Historically forged repertoires of contention, such as call-and-response chants, silent s…
India's Ambitions in Burma
India has been pursuing a new Burma policy since 1993 to meet its emerging strategic interests in the region. This article assesses 15 years of this “velvet policy” toward Burma's military regime and argues that New Delhi has faced more frustration than satisfaction in achieving its strategic objectives as a result of this shift in policy
The Idealization of a Lost Paradise
Burma in Diaspora
This research note focuses on the far-flung Burmese overseas communities, situating them into the wider diaspora literature. Drawing on extant scholarship on refugees, migrants and exiled dissidents of Burmese origin, it presents an original cartography of Burmese diasporic groups dispersed throughout Asia. It explores their migration patterns and tentatively maps out their transnational networks. It seeks to comparatively examine the relationshi…
India and China Vying for Influence in Burma – A New Assessment
Caretaking Democratization
This book examines the political landscape that followed the 2010 elections in Myanmar and the subsequent transition from direct military rule to a semi-civilian, ‘hybrid’ regime. Striking political, social, and economic transformations have indeed taken place in the long-isolated country since the military junta disbanded in March 2011. To better construe – and question – what has routinely been labelled a ‘Burmese Spring’, the book examines the…
Fashioning Parliament
This article discusses the significance of dress codes and clothing in postcolonial Myanmar’s successive legislatures. Burmese representatives have since the 1950s been strongly encouraged to wear dignified garb and non-Western dress when carrying out their duties in parliament. What does it tell us? The contribution of this study based on field interviews and the analysis of newspaper reports and parliamentary procedures, is threefold. It first …
Legislators in Myanmar's First “Post-Junta” National Parliament (2010–2015)
In an attempt to better grasp the realities of Myanmar's national legislature, which was formed after the 2010 elections, this paper examines the personal profiles and social backgrounds of its elected and appointed members. I have sought to record data on the social composition of Myanmar's first “post-junta” parliament and provide a dataset for further comparative research on the resurgence of legislative affairs in the country. The study draws…
A passage to Burma? India, development, and democratization in Myanmar
Since the 1990s, India has faced heavy criticism for its realist approach to Burmese affairs. Geopolitical imperatives indeed drove Delhi towards a closer partnership with its military-ruled neighbour. India, however, claims it plays a key role in fostering development in Burma; therefore, consolidating long-term democratization prospects there. This article aims to challenge this view. Using the literature on development and democracy, as well a…
Power, cultural nationalism, and postcolonial public architecture
This article focuses on the contested, and frequently postponed, construction of a new parliament house in postcolonial Myanmar. Since the late colonial period, the country’s legislative bodies have convened in four different buildings, three located in the former capital Yangon and the latest one in Naypyitaw. Drawing on legislative proceedings and media reports, this study interrogates the relationship between decolonisation, national identity,…
Who Are the Military Delegates in Myanmar's 2010-2015 Union Legislature
Made available in 2012, short biographies of 166 officers permit examination of the sociological profiles of the Burmese military officers seconded to Myanmar’s Union parliament. Data cover the five socio-demographic variables of gender, age, ethnicity, religion and education, as well as the positions that these officers occupied at the time of their secondment to parliament. These data show that, as a group, the initial cohort of military legisl…
Are We (Really) Brothers
This article considers the views that Chinese diplomats have developed on contemporary India. Using Chinese-written memoirs and essays, as well as discussions with active or retired diplomats of the People's Republic of China who served in India, this research explores the diversity of the Chinese elite's perceptions of the emergence, domestic politics and cultures of India today. It will be argued that four main sets of rather negative perceptio…
Antagonistic framing and the social exclusion of Rohingya in Myanmar’s parliamentary discourses (2011–2021)
How Legislators Frame Contentious Megaprojects
Little is known about how legislative actors engage with social movements in framing contests over conflictual policy issues. This article investigates the case of Myanmar and enquires into how such framing activity can play out in a resurgent legislature. It focuses on two megaprojects that generated intense public debate during the country’s decade of liberalisation (2011–2021): the Letpadaung mines and the Myitsone dam. It builds on the analys…
Parliamentary rituals, institutional continuity, and the reinvention of political traditions in Myanmar
Shedding light on an understudied aspect of Myanmar's institutional history, this study interrogates the perpetuation of parliamentary rituals in the country's successive postcolonial legislatures. It focuses on two ritualised ceremonies: the oath taken by new members of parliaments and the mace-bearing spectacle marking the opening of the daily session. Their maintenance, re-appropriation and re-designing under Myanmar's different post-independe…
Towards Legislative Institutionalisation? Emerging Patterns of Routinisation in Myanmar’s Parliament
This article investigates the patterns of parliamentary change observed in Myanmar since a constitutionally sanctioned, partially elected legislature was revived in January 2011. In particular, it poses the question as to whether processes of legislative institutionalisation have taken place in the course of the 2010s. Grounded on ethnographic work carried out between 2013 and 2018 in Myanmar’s Union parliament, established in Naypyitaw, the arti…
Fasting as Commemorative Strategy
This article adds to the literature considering hunger strikes as performances of resistance. It presents the action of fasting not merely as a form of protest, but also as a strategy for commemorating past struggles and producing movement memory during periods of abeyance. To do so, it leverages a case study on Myanmar under both colonial and military rule. The study draws on archival records and interviews with Burmese activists who staged hung…
Why veterans lose
Retired military officers often continue to wield significant influence in regimes built after the end of junta rule, sometimes helping to bridge enduring civil–military divides. Myanmar’s recent legislative elections offers a counterintuitive case. There has been a rapidly decreasing influence of military retirees in the electoral landscape shaped in the 2010s. I reveal this decline using data on the sociological background of candidates for the…
The Inchoate Legislative Scrutiny of the Myanmar Police Forces
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
The China–India Rivalry Reconceptualized
This article aims to refocus the theoretical debate on the rising China-India rivalry by using the conceptual framework of 'enduring international rivalries'. Largely neglected by China-India studies, the enduring international rivalries literature is used hereafter to re-conceptualize the interactions between the two giants in a postcolonial context, and hypothesize the potential evolution of their so-called 'rivalry'. Rather than being consider…
Assessing recent ethnic peace talks in Myanmar
2011 has been an extraordinary transformative year for Myanmar. A civilian government headed by ex-general Thein Sein took over after decades of military rule. A bicameral Parliament and local asse
Birmanie
En août 2003, le nouveau Premier ministre birman, le général Khin Nyunt, annonçait une feuille de route en sept points, censés mener la Birmanie sur le chemin de la transition démocratique. La première étape consistait en la réunion d’une nouvelle Convention nationale en mai 2004 afin de rédiger une Constitution. Cependant, les visions politiques du régime militaire, de l’opposition démocratique menée par Aung San Suu Kyi assignée à résidence dep…
India's Ambitions in Burma
India has been pursuing a new Burma policy since 1993 to meet its emerging strategic interests in the region. This article assesses 15 years of this “velvet policy” toward Burma's military regime and argues that New Delhi has faced more frustration than satisfaction in achieving its strategic objectives as a result of this shift in policy
India and China Vying for Influence in Burma – A New Assessment
Intra-European Bargaining and the ‘Tower of Babel’ EU Approach to the Burmese Conundrum
A passage to Burma? India, development, and democratization in Myanmar
Since the 1990s, India has faced heavy criticism for its realist approach to Burmese affairs. Geopolitical imperatives indeed drove Delhi towards a closer partnership with its military-ruled neighbour. India, however, claims it plays a key role in fostering development in Burma; therefore, consolidating long-term democratization prospects there. This article aims to challenge this view. Using the literature on development and democracy, as well a…
Burmese Indians in contemporary Burma
This article seeks to explore the current role, significance and influence of Burmese Indian minorities in post-1988 Burma as well as the perceptions the Burmese indigenous society and elite have developed on them since the colonial era. British Burma (1826–1948) witnessed a massive immigration of Indian communities that disproportionately dominated Burma's colonial enterprise. A strong resentment thus arose among the Burman Buddhist majority, il…
Burma in Diaspora
This research note focuses on the far-flung Burmese overseas communities, situating them into the wider diaspora literature. Drawing on extant scholarship on refugees, migrants and exiled dissidents of Burmese origin, it presents an original cartography of Burmese diasporic groups dispersed throughout Asia. It explores their migration patterns and tentatively maps out their transnational networks. It seeks to comparatively examine the relationshi…
The China–India Rivalry Reconceptualized
This article aims to refocus the theoretical debate on the rising China-India rivalry by using the conceptual framework of 'enduring international rivalries'. Largely neglected by China-India studies, the enduring international rivalries literature is used hereafter to re-conceptualize the interactions between the two giants in a postcolonial context, and hypothesize the potential evolution of their so-called 'rivalry'. Rather than being consider…
The rise of ethnic politics in Nepal
Assessing recent ethnic peace talks in Myanmar
2011 has been an extraordinary transformative year for Myanmar. A civilian government headed by ex-general Thein Sein took over after decades of military rule. A bicameral Parliament and local asse
Birmanie
Le changement de cap opéré en Birmanie depuis 2011 est manifeste et inattendu. Il s'agit d'un processus de transition enclenché après des années de promesses déçues. Loin d'être impulsée par une population révoltée, cette transition semble pilotée par une institution militaire dont une frange progressiste cherche à imposer un élan réformateur
Are We (Really) Brothers
This article considers the views that Chinese diplomats have developed on contemporary India. Using Chinese-written memoirs and essays, as well as discussions with active or retired diplomats of the People's Republic of China who served in India, this research explores the diversity of the Chinese elite's perceptions of the emergence, domestic politics and cultures of India today. It will be argued that four main sets of rather negative perceptio…
India’s Vanishing “Burma Colonies”. Repatriation, Urban Citizenship, and (De)Mobilization of Indian Returnees from Burma (Myanmar) since the 1960s
Cet article s’intéresse aux communautés indiennes rapatriées de Birmanie entre les années 1960 et 1980. À partir de terrains de recherche récemment effectués en Inde, il examine l’environnement sociopolitique créé par ces populations indo-birmanes dans les espaces urbains (appelés Burma Colonies), spécialement aménagées par les autorités indiennes, en particulier à Madras, Calcutta et New Delhi. Les interviews ont révélé que ces populations ont s…
Présentation
Le rôle des villes dans les processus de transnationalisation et de mobilité migratoire fait, depuis quelques années, l’objet d’une attention particulière (Sassen 2001 ; Smith 2001). L’espace urbain, situé entre le global et le local, est en effet le théâtre de processus complexes de migration et de pratiques transnationales. Les villes attirent des populations diverses et des acteurs hétérogènes y coexistent dans la proximité. Elles constituent …
Presentation
Extant scholarship has recognized the importance of human migration to the rise and decline of urban centers. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines have focused on the complex role urban spaces play in migration and transnational practices (Smith 2001; Sassen 2001). Between the global and the local, cities are sites of complex processes of transnational mobilities. Urban spaces attract migrants who, once settled, do coexist in proximity. Over…
Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma
Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma explores Burma's relations with the outside world since independence in 1948, and addresses the key question of the ongoing role of the military in Burma's foreign policy in a post-junta context. The co-authors, a political scientist and a former top Asia editor for the BBC, provide a fresh perspective on Burma's foreign and security policies, arguing that key elements of continuity underlie Burma's striking postco…
Legislators in Myanmar's First “Post-Junta” National Parliament (2010–2015)
In an attempt to better grasp the realities of Myanmar's national legislature, which was formed after the 2010 elections, this paper examines the personal profiles and social backgrounds of its elected and appointed members. I have sought to record data on the social composition of Myanmar's first “post-junta” parliament and provide a dataset for further comparative research on the resurgence of legislative affairs in the country. The study draws…
The Idealization of a Lost Paradise
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Who Are the Military Delegates in Myanmar's 2010-2015 Union Legislature
Made available in 2012, short biographies of 166 officers permit examination of the sociological profiles of the Burmese military officers seconded to Myanmar’s Union parliament. Data cover the five socio-demographic variables of gender, age, ethnicity, religion and education, as well as the positions that these officers occupied at the time of their secondment to parliament. These data show that, as a group, the initial cohort of military legisl…
‘China is Paradise’
Caretaking Democratization
Caretaking Democratization: The Military and Political Changein Myanmar. By Renaud Egreteau. London: Hurst & Co, 2016. Hardcover: 193pp
Caretaking Democratization
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…
Power, cultural nationalism, and postcolonial public architecture
This article focuses on the contested, and frequently postponed, construction of a new parliament house in postcolonial Myanmar. Since the late colonial period, the country’s legislative bodies have convened in four different buildings, three located in the former capital Yangon and the latest one in Naypyitaw. Drawing on legislative proceedings and media reports, this study interrogates the relationship between decolonisation, national identity,…
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