Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable

Autor: Christoph Emmrich, Joseph McQuade, Sana Aiyar, Thibaut d'Hubert
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Modern Asian Studies. 57:283-320
ISSN: 1469-8099
0026-749X
DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x21000718
Popis: Burma, or Myanmar as it was renamed in 1989, is largely ignored within the discipline of South Asian Studies, despite its cultural, religious, economic, and strategic significance for the wider worlds of Asia. Burma is often studied either in isolation or alongside Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia, despite its equally important historical and cultural connections to communities, states, and networks across what is now India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, or Nepal. In this Roundtable, four scholars of South Asia discuss Burma's erasure within the discipline, the origins and limitations of traditional area studies frameworks, and the possibilities afforded by Burma's inclusion within a more expansive conception of South Asia.
Databáze: OpenAIRE