Revisiting the wages of Burman-ness: contradictions of privilege in Myanmar

• Main Authors: Campbell, Stephen, Prasse-Freeman, Elliott
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Sociology; Ethnicity; Inequality
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159705
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Myanmar’s much lauded but short-lived transition to a liberal capitalist order was marked by an upsurge in Islamophobia, anti-Muslim riots and the violent expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya into Bangladesh. Amid this conflagration, debates over ethnic inclusion, privilege and nationalism...