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The Shan in the History of the Irrawaddy Valley: Towards a Federal “National” History (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2023, December). The Shan in the History of the Irrawaddy Valley: Towards a Federal “National” History. Presented at Shan New Year 2118 2023 Academic Presentations, SOAS

My main point is that when we do Shan history we do Shan history but when we do Burmese history we do Burman history and this needs to change. This should be part of the current efforts to decolonise the academy. Decolonizing the academy promises to... Read More about The Shan in the History of the Irrawaddy Valley: Towards a Federal “National” History.

How Many Burmas Is Enough? Sidelining Western Imaginaries for Understanding Burma is an Important Step, But Competing Indigenous Imaginaries Also Present Problems (2023)
Digital Artefact
Charney, M. W. (2023). How Many Burmas Is Enough? Sidelining Western Imaginaries for Understanding Burma is an Important Step, But Competing Indigenous Imaginaries Also Present Problems. [Blog post]

The Western imaginary of Burma has dominated international thinking about Burma for so long partly because of the advantages Western countries have in terms of funding and power and the longevity of the educational institutions. Contemporary Burma al... Read More about How Many Burmas Is Enough? Sidelining Western Imaginaries for Understanding Burma is an Important Step, But Competing Indigenous Imaginaries Also Present Problems.

Between the Court and the Village: Uncovering how was Early Modern Warfare Really Waged in Southeast Asia (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2023, March). Between the Court and the Village: Uncovering how was Early Modern Warfare Really Waged in Southeast Asia. Presented at Leiden University Cogloss Lecture, Leiden University

The literature on premodern warfare of Southeast Asia has grown significantly in the last two decades in large part because of the growing number of Southeast Asian scholars who have taken up the topic. We have more information now than we have ever... Read More about Between the Court and the Village: Uncovering how was Early Modern Warfare Really Waged in Southeast Asia.

Politicized Ethnicity in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia (2023)
Book Chapter
Charney, M. W. (2023). Politicized Ethnicity in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia. In A. Roshwald, M. D'Auria, & C. Carmichael (Eds.), Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism. Volume 1. Patterns and Trajectories over the Longue Durée (96-114). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108655385.006

This chapter examines the emergence in early modern Southeast Asia of ethnic identities and both their mobilisation and mobilising effects. The chapter will emphasise the discordance in the historical development of ethnic identities due to the early... Read More about Politicized Ethnicity in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia.

Perpetual Systematic Violence and Perennial Violence in the Muslim Crescent: Palestinians, Bangladeshis, and Rohingyas (2023)
Digital Artefact
Charney, M. W. Perpetual Systematic Violence and Perennial Violence in the Muslim Crescent: Palestinians, Bangladeshis, and Rohingyas

Whether the news media swings one way or the other on focusing mostly on Israel or mostly on Gaza, largely dependent on whether the media is Western and Indian in the first case or based in the Middle East in the latter, audiences are treated with th... Read More about Perpetual Systematic Violence and Perennial Violence in the Muslim Crescent: Palestinians, Bangladeshis, and Rohingyas.