From Saving Buddhism from (Corrupt) Buddhists to Preserving Buddhism from Islam: the Relationship Between Religion and 'National' Identity in Precolonial and Postcolonial Myanmar
(2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2019, November). From Saving Buddhism from (Corrupt) Buddhists to Preserving Buddhism from Islam: the Relationship Between Religion and 'National' Identity in Precolonial and Postcolonial Myanmar. Paper presented at Religion and State Ideology in the Middle East and Asia, Oriental Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
Outputs (10)
Engineering Calamity: the Consequences of Railway Building and Irrigation in Colonial Burma (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2019, November). Engineering Calamity: the Consequences of Railway Building and Irrigation in Colonial Burma. Paper presented at Rain, River, and Rice in Modern Burma, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Economics
Comments on Everyday Justice in Myanmar (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2019, October). Comments on Everyday Justice in Myanmar. Presented at Everyday Justice in Myanmar, LSE South Asia Centre
What we did not know about the Defence of Burma in 1942 - The Burma Railways under Fire (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2019, September). What we did not know about the Defence of Burma in 1942 - The Burma Railways under Fire. Presented at George Blair Memorial Lecture, The Friends of Millbank
Buddhism, the Royal Imaginary, and Limits in Warfare: The Moderating Influence of Precolonial Myanmar Royal Campaigns on Everyday Warriors (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2019, September). Buddhism, the Royal Imaginary, and Limits in Warfare: The Moderating Influence of Precolonial Myanmar Royal Campaigns on Everyday Warriors. Paper presented at International Conference on Reducing Suffering During Conflict: The Interface Between Buddhism and International Humanitarian Law, Dambulla, Sri Lanka
Lecture: The Misuses of Histories and Historiography by the state in Myanmar: The Case of Rakhine and Rohingya (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2019, February). Lecture: The Misuses of Histories and Historiography by the state in Myanmar: The Case of Rakhine and Rohingya. Presented at The International Conference on Protection and Accountability in Burma, Barnard College, Columbia University
Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia: Burma 1941-1942 (2019)
Book
Charney, M. W. (2019). Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia: Burma 1941-1942. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350089488Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia sheds light on attempts by royal engineers to introduce innovations devised in the UK to wartime India, Iraq, and Burma, as well as the resistance of local groups of colonial railwaymen to such metropo... Read More about Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia: Burma 1941-1942.
The Rohingya and the Rakhine: An Unfolding Tragedy (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2019, February). The Rohingya and the Rakhine: An Unfolding Tragedy. Presented at The Rohingya and Unfolding Tragedy, Tufts University
The First Failure of Civilian Democracy in Burma and the Military Coup of 1962 (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2019, January). The First Failure of Civilian Democracy in Burma and the Military Coup of 1962. Presented at How Democracies End Seminar Series, Henrich Heine Universität Dusseldorf
Shifting Categorisations of Chinese Migrants in Burma in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2019)
Book Chapter
Charney, M. W. (2019). Shifting Categorisations of Chinese Migrants in Burma in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. In G. Wade, & J. K. Chin (Eds.), China and Southeast Asia: Historical Interactions (281-302). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429489518-12This chapter is concerned with Burmese and European accounts rather than the Chinese sources because the latter have received thorough attention from scholars well-versed in the Chinese-language literature. The Chinese tribute system governed the Cel... Read More about Shifting Categorisations of Chinese Migrants in Burma in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.