Revolutionary responses to the Myanmar coup

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ID7640482
AuthorsElliott Prasse-Freeman (0000-0003-3078-0530, corresponding author), Elliott Prasse‐freeman, Ko Kabya
Year2021
Volume37
Issue3
Pages1-2
Publication date2021-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology Today (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0268-540X • E-ISSN: 1467-8322
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-8322.12649
OpenAlexW3171706873
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited7

While Myanmar's recent military coup has devastated many people in the country, particularly those from the Bamar majority, who had been enjoying a decade of quasi‐democracy, it has also produced a massive uprising against the military's seizure of power that appears to constitute a revolution. This is because amidst protests, general strikes, and guerrilla warfare, this majority has also been grappling with the failures of the last 10 years: through conversations facilitated by social media platforms, some are not only demanding changes to their democratic leadership's authoritarian chauvinism but are acknowledging the structural inequalities and exclusions built into Myanmar society

Authoritarianism · Chauvinism · Citizen journalism · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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