Politics, ethics, and methods of research in post-coup Myanmar
Type
LaboratoryPart 1
Session 5Thu 11:00-12:30 Room 0.16
Part 2
Session 6Thu 14:00-15:30 Room 0.16
Convener
- Stéphen Huard Centre Asie du Sud Est
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- Alexandra de Mersan Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
- Aurore Candier Centre Asie du Sud-Est
- Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Chloé Baills École Pratique des Hautes Études
- François Robinne Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Hein Htet Sciences Po Bordeaux
- Maxime Boutry Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Morgane Dussud School of Oriental and African Studies
- Nicolas Salem-Gervais Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales/Centre Asie du Sud-Est
- Renaud Egreteau City University of Hong Kong
Abstract
Laboratories are closed meetings for scholars to develop innovative cross-disciplinary plans, hence they are not open to the public. However, results will be presented during the final session.
This laboratory brings together geographers, anthropologists, linguists and historians, to collectively discuss and reflect upon the politics, ethics and new methods for doing research in a country marked by a political crisis. After briefly summarizing the commonalities and differences between each other experiences regarding coups and violence in Myanmar since the 1980s, the discussion will focus on questions of methodology (remote fieldwork and ethnography, access to archives, uses of existing materials, change of subjects/problems, temporalities) on the one hand, and on reflexivity and positionality (ethics of research in a violent situation, protection of researchers and their informants, perpetuation of collective projects with Burmese colleagues, perception of violence) on the other hand. Finally, we aim at questioning critically the specificities of Francophone research on Burma/Myanmar.