All Outputs (27)

Decolonizing History in "Myanmar": Bringing Rohingya Back into their own History (2021)
Journal Article
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),

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... Read More about Decolonizing History in "Myanmar": Bringing Rohingya Back into their own History.

Buddhism, the Royal Imaginary, and Limits in Warfare: The Moderating Influence of Precolonial Myanmar Royal Campaigns on Everyday Warriors (2021)
Journal Article
Charney, M. W. (2021). Buddhism, the Royal Imaginary, and Limits in Warfare: The Moderating Influence of Precolonial Myanmar Royal Campaigns on Everyday Warriors. Contemporary Buddhism, 22(1/2), 367-379. https://doi.org/10.1080/14639947.2022.2038029

Rules on the treatment of civilians and other non-combatants in conflict are often attributed to Western origins, particularly the increasingly widening circles of empathy that grew out of the European Enlightenment and found international implementa... Read More about Buddhism, the Royal Imaginary, and Limits in Warfare: The Moderating Influence of Precolonial Myanmar Royal Campaigns on Everyday Warriors.

Playing Beta to China and Other International Alpha Powers (Again) (2021)
Digital Artefact
Charney, M. W. (2021). Playing Beta to China and Other International Alpha Powers (Again)

Ignoring Global Realities? Western Governments need to invest in Asian Studies in their Universities (2021)
Digital Artefact
Charney, M. W. (2021). Ignoring Global Realities? Western Governments need to invest in Asian Studies in their Universities

Post-colonial intellectual counter-spaces under threat (2021)
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Charney, M. W. (2021). Post-colonial intellectual counter-spaces under threat

The Introduction of the Application of the Harquebus in Western Mainland Southeast Asia Warfare (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2021, September). The Introduction of the Application of the Harquebus in Western Mainland Southeast Asia Warfare. Paper presented at Beyond the Military Revolution Debate and Geographic Determinism? The Multifarious Reception of the Harquebus, International remote

Religion and Migration in Rakhine (2021)
Book Chapter
Charney, M. W. (2021). Religion and Migration in Rakhine. In D. E. Ludden (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.414

The historical migration and religious development in Rakhine (Arakan) up to the end of the second decade of the 21st century is complicated. This region was a crossroads for South and Southeast Asian civilizations and existed at the overlap of the f... Read More about Religion and Migration in Rakhine.

No Change Without National Revolution: The Two Myanmars and the Two International Systems (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2021, August). No Change Without National Revolution: The Two Myanmars and the Two International Systems. Presented at Myanmar Genocide Memorial Event by the Free Rohingya Coalition, London

The solution can only happen with country-level revolution, and I mean here regime change not necessarily violence, which I am not free to advocate. And this will have to occur facing not only the opposition of the Tatmadaw, but also with a clear und... Read More about No Change Without National Revolution: The Two Myanmars and the Two International Systems.

State-Think and the Problem with University Education in Post-Colonial Societies (2021)
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Charney, M. W. (2021). State-Think and the Problem with University Education in Post-Colonial Societies

in Southeast Asia and other regions today, universities cloak themselves with high profile links with elite institutions elsewhere, by creating nominal centres for critical thought, often bringing in internationally famous academicians. But these app... Read More about State-Think and the Problem with University Education in Post-Colonial Societies.

The Misuses of Histories and Historiography by the state in Myanmar: The Case of Rakhine and Rohingya [Blog post] (2021)
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Charney, M. W. (2021). The Misuses of Histories and Historiography by the state in Myanmar: The Case of Rakhine and Rohingya [Blog post]. [Blog post]

Shipbuilding at Chittagong: Fifteenth-Nineteenth Centuries (2021)
Book Chapter
Charney, M. W. (2021). Shipbuilding at Chittagong: Fifteenth-Nineteenth Centuries. In S. Berthet (Ed.), Shipbuilding, Navigation and the South-West Silk Road: North Odisha, Bengal and Arakan (157-174). Primus

The boatbuilding industry in the Chittagong area was a more flexible and dynamic industry than historians generally allow. Rather than being a great boatbuilding centre that was eclipsed and fell into decline, the historical trajectory of boatbuildin... Read More about Shipbuilding at Chittagong: Fifteenth-Nineteenth Centuries.

Aung San Suu Kyi in court: 'All these charges have been trumped up' (2021)
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Charney, M. W. (2021). Aung San Suu Kyi in court: 'All these charges have been trumped up'. [video]

Prosecutors in Myanmar have now laid out their arguments against Aung San Suu Kyi and a number of her allies. Critics and international observers say it's nothing but a show trial to discredit the country's ousted leadership in a bid to consolidate t... Read More about Aung San Suu Kyi in court: 'All these charges have been trumped up'.

How Racist is your Engagement with Burma Studies? (2021)
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Charney, M. W. (2021). How Racist is your Engagement with Burma Studies?. [Blog post]

How many of academics in recent memory have participated in a workshop on Southeast Asia or some aspect of it in which the overwhelming number of participants were white? If were to take Theravada Buddhist Studies as an example, in real life, 99% of... Read More about How Racist is your Engagement with Burma Studies?.

Myanmar's military coup: Pro-democracy protests continue despite bloody crackdown (2021)
Digital Artefact
Charney, M. W., Win, K., & Smith, M. (2021). Myanmar's military coup: Pro-democracy protests continue despite bloody crackdown. [Video]

In-Depth News Analysis on Myanmar Crisis (2021)
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Charney, M. W. (2021). In-Depth News Analysis on Myanmar Crisis. [MP3]

In-Depth News Analysis: Professor Michael Charney from the Department of History at SOAS University of London, who is a military historian of Asia, gives expert analysis on the current situation in Myanmar, as hundreds of thousands of people took to... Read More about In-Depth News Analysis on Myanmar Crisis.

မြန်မာအာဏာသိမ်းမှုသည်ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်လက်အောက်ဒီမိုကရေစီအသွင်ကူးပြောင်းရေး၏ lie ကိုဖြိုခွဲခဲ့သည် [Myanmar’s Coup Crushed the BIG LIE of Democratic Transition under Aung San Suu Kyi] (2021)
Digital Artefact
Zarni, M., & Charney, M. W. (2021). မြန်မာအာဏာသိမ်းမှုသည်ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်လက်အောက်ဒီမိုကရေစီအသွင်ကူးပြောင်းရေး၏ lie ကိုဖြိုခွဲခဲ့သည် [Myanmar’s Coup Crushed the BIG LIE of Democratic Transition under Aung San Suu Kyi]. [Youtube video]

HOST: Maung Zarni, FORSEA co-founder, a fellow with the (Genocide) Documentation Center – Cambodia, the Burmese coordinator of the Free Rohingya Coalition and founding coordinator of the Free Burma Coalition (1995-2004).

GUEST: Prof. Michael W. Ch... Read More about မြန်မာအာဏာသိမ်းမှုသည်ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်လက်အောက်ဒီမိုကရေစီအသွင်ကူးပြောင်းရေး၏ lie ကိုဖြိုခွဲခဲ့သည် [Myanmar’s Coup Crushed the BIG LIE of Democratic Transition under Aung San Suu Kyi].

China's Impact on the peoples of Cambodia, Myanmar and Hong Kong (2021)
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Charney, M. W., Zarni, M., & Tatlow, D. K. (2021). China's Impact on the peoples of Cambodia, Myanmar and Hong Kong. [Youtube Video]

he Dialogue on Democratic Struggles Across Southeast Asia will shed light on how Myanmar's Big Lie - democratic transition / "fragile democracy" - has gained currency worldwide over the last 10 years since Myanmar military rolled out its constitution... Read More about China's Impact on the peoples of Cambodia, Myanmar and Hong Kong.

Myanmar's detained Aung Suu Kyi faces delays in detention as military enforce tougher order on protesters (2021)
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Charney, M. W. (2021). Myanmar's detained Aung Suu Kyi faces delays in detention as military enforce tougher order on protesters. [MP3]

Myanmar's military leaders have extended the house arrest of the country's deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi until Wednesday.

Her remand was set to expire yesterday but Aung San Suu Kyi will now front court Wednesday to face charges of ille... Read More about Myanmar's detained Aung Suu Kyi faces delays in detention as military enforce tougher order on protesters.

A Historian Considers the Current Military Takeover in Myanmar (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2021, February). A Historian Considers the Current Military Takeover in Myanmar. Presented at Myanmar Dialogues, Naresuan University, Thailand

Understanding Myanmar's Civil Disobedience Movement (2021)
Digital Artefact
Charney, M. W., & Zarni, M. (2021). Understanding Myanmar's Civil Disobedience Movement. [Youtube video]

Discussion of Burma's Civil Disobedience Movement with Dr. Maung Zarni and Prof. Michael W. Charney