Resilient resistance in Myanmar
Roundtable discussion on Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality and Resistance in Myanmar
Join us for this roundtable discussion which will explore the extraordinary resilience of Myanmar's revolutionary movement since the 2021 military coup.
When
10–11am, Thursday 9 May
Where
Seminar room 200, RD Watt building, Camperdown campus,
University of Sydney
In Outsourcing the Polity (Cornell, 2023), Gerard McCarthy offers a new account of social outsourcing in post-independence Myanmar. Grounded in extensive research during Myanmar's decade of partial civilian rule (2011–2021), the book examines how ideals and practices of non-state welfare – charity, philanthropy and social provisioning beyond the state – can both sustain democratic resistance and entrench inequality over time.
The panel, which includes specialists on social justice, politics and conflict in Myanmar and Southeast Asia, will consider how historical legacies including autocratic market reform and austerity helped lay the material and ideological seeds of the ongoing struggle against dictatorship in Myanmar.
Featuring:
- Assist. Prof. Gerard McCarthy (author), Social Policy and Development, International Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands
- Assoc. Prof. Susan Banki, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Discipline of Sociology and Criminology, University of Sydney
- Dr Moe Thuzar, Senior Fellow Coordinator, Myanmar Studies Programme, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
- Tony Neil, PhD candidate, Department of International Development, London School of Economics, and Visiting Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change, Australian National University
Resilient resistance in Myanmar is a special lead-up event to the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre’s Politics in Action 2024 on 9 May 2024. This annual flagship event features timely analysis of political affairs in six Southeast Asian countries and is for scholars, students and anyone with an interest in Southeast Asia.