On 20 November 2024, Doi Ra will defend her thesis investigating how contemporary land rushes shape and are reshaped by the political economy of labour in Myanmar
- PhD student
- Date
- Wednesday 20 Nov 2024, 14:30 - 16:30
- Type
- PhD defence
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Aula B
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
- More information
The ceremony will begin promptly at 14:30 hrs in the ISS auditorium (Aula B) of the ISS, Kortenaerkade 12, The Hague. The doors will be closed after the start of the Public Defence, but will be briefly opened after the candidate’s introduction to allow latecomers to enter.
Children under 7 years old are not allowed in the Aula during the first part of the ceremony.
The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the Atrium of the ISS.
Professors are invited to join the academic procession.
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- ISS PhD programme
She first traces the political economy of historical evolution around land and labour relations under different regimes, starting from the pre-colonial era in the 1800s to the period of democratic transition and liberalization under the quasi-military/quasi-civilian government between 2011 to 2021.
She then goes on to analyze the contemporary land rushes that emerged after the 1994 ceasefire era and the 2010 state regime change.
In this way she examines how various features such as ceasefire capitalism, state territorialization, Burmanization, legacies of colonialism, geopolitics and development schemes have come to form the 'historical present' landscape.
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Doctoral Board
Chair
Doctoral dissertation supervisor
Professor Jun Borras
Dr Tsegaye Moreda Shegro
Dr Yunan Xu, University of Cambridge
Full Doctoral Committee
- Dr Nwet Kay Khine, Chiang Mai University
- Professor Ruth Hall, University of the Western Cape
- Dr Michael Dwyer, Indiana University
- Professor Diana Suhardiman, Leiden University
- Professor Murat Arsel, International Institute of Social Studies
- Professor Roy Huijsmans, International Institute of Social Studies
