Michael W. Charney
Decolonizing History in "Myanmar": Bringing Rohingya Back into their own History
Charney, Michael W.
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Abstract
This article makes two main arguments. First, it argues that due to the imperial roots of Area Studies the views of many contemporary states and many scholars on the Rohingya, Rakhine, and Myanmar have been shaped by colonial perspectives. Second, it argues that the Rohingya were erased historically from Rakhine by the British colonial state and this erasure has been reinforced by the country focus of US Area Studies during the Cold War and after. It concludes that societies in the global south may also have to decolonize how they construct and organize knowledge, and what their governments do with it in terms of policy, so they can escape the continual problems caused originally by the colonial administrative convenience.
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Charney, M. W. (2021). Decolonizing History in "Myanmar": Bringing Rohingya Back into their own History. Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship = Si capʻ mraṅʻ nhaṁʻʹ, 1(3),
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 1, 2020 |
Publication Date | Dec 20, 2021 |
Deposit Date | Jan 4, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 4, 2022 |
Print ISSN | 2518-5195 |
Electronic ISSN | 2522-3798 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 3 |
Keywords | Bangladesh; Myanmar; Burma; Rohingya; Decolonising History |
Publisher URL | https://ijbs.online/?page_id=2718 |
Related Public URLs | https://journalofburmesescholarship.org |
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