Revolutionary responses to the Myanmar coup. Issue 3 (4th June 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Prasse‐Freeman, Elliott; Kabya, Ko
• Is Part Of: Anthropology today. Volume 37:Issue 3(2021)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 2
• Publication Date: 2021-06-04
• Subjects: Anthropology -- Periodicals; 306.05
• DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12649
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0268-540X

Abstract

Abstract : 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.