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Revolutionary responses to the Myanmar coup
Author(s) -
PrasseFreeman Elliott,
Kabya Ko
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8322.12649
Subject(s) - chauvinism , authoritarianism , democracy , power (physics) , citizen journalism , political economy , political science , sociology , media studies , development economics , law , politics , economics , physics , quantum mechanics
While Myanmar's recent military coup has devastated many people in the country, particularly those from the Bamar majority, who had been enjoying a decade of quasi‐democracy, it has also produced a massive uprising against the military's seizure of power that appears to constitute a revolution. This is because amidst protests, general strikes, and guerrilla warfare, this majority has also been grappling with the failures of the last 10 years: through conversations facilitated by social media platforms, some are not only demanding changes to their democratic leadership's authoritarian chauvinism but are acknowledging the structural inequalities and exclusions built into Myanmar society.