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Panel: Voices from the Margin – Disability and Inequality in Myanmar

March 6, 2021
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Session 14, Saturday 6 March 10.45 - 12.15 Convened and chaired by Mike Griffiths, Social Policy & Poverty Research Group This panel first presents an overview of a decade of research on disability and inequality in Myanmar, particularly looking at the intersection of gender, disability and geography. This is followed by an in-depth study of disability and self-identity, exploring how religious beliefs intersect with gender to shape the narratives of disabilities amongst people with disabilities and their near-community. The third paper follows this, looking more specifically at how autism is constructed narratively, attempting to analyze the curious phenomenon of the...

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Plenary: Reflections on the Military Coup and CDM in Myanmar

March 5, 2021
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Saturday begins with the ICBMS3 plenary session, “Reflections on the military coup and Civil Disobedience Movement in Myanmar” with three speakers taking on the elephant in the room: the coup and the anti-coup CDM movement. Speakers include: Dr. Khin Mar Mar Kyi, International Gender Studies, The University of Oxford, “Thanakha's Defiance: Generations, Gender & Social Movement in Myanmar against the Military Regime” Naw May Oo Mutraw, Senior Policy Advisor, The Salween Institute for Public Policy, “Burma: a Chronic Constitutional Crisis and a Call for a New Political Culture” Dr. Ashley South, Research Fellow, Chiang Mai University"Reflections on the Military coup,...

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Panel: Negotiating Bodies, Gender & Sexuality of Shan Migrant Workers in Thailand

March 4, 2021
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Session 6, Friday, 5 Mar 2021 from 15.15-16.30. Convened by Amporn Jirattikorn from Chiang Mai University's Department of Social Science and Development with discussant Erin Kamler, affiliated researcher with Chiang Mai University. The panel will investigate the relationship between migration and gender and sexuality, focusing on Shan people who've migrated to seek work in Thailand, as well as cross-border Shan involved in border area trade. Three case studies will be explored. One looks at how Shan female traders employ gendered strategies when encountering multiple multi-group ethnic conflicts. The second paper explores the context of sexual commodification where Shan male migrants...

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