Biography
Yin Nyein is a PhD researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS, The Hague), Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is part of 'The politics of agrarian transformations in Myanmar,' a research and training initiative based at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Chiang Mai University. He is also part of the European Research Council Advanced Grant Project RRUSHES-5, led by Professor Jun Borras.
He has professional experience in research and development work on fisheries and natural resource governance since around 2009. His specialization is in policy advocacy and institutional building of the grassroots organization from village level to township, district, and up to the national level. Common pool resource management is also another area of his specialization and he contributed to the better life of small-scale fishers by changing legal institutions for fishery sectors in many regions in Myanmar. He played a role in the fisher community’s collective demand-making actions for reforms of neoliberal policies in the fishery sector. During the national regime transition period in 2010-2020, he worked in consultative processes of several regional governance bodies, while assisting local fisher communities in law-making processes. He earned a Master of Public Policy from the Australian National University (ANU).
His PhD research interests lie in studying the historically constructed social structures and moral economy values that shape the socio-cultural identity and social cohesion of coastal and riparian communities. The study will delve into the evolution of social inequality, class relations, and moral economy within small-scale fishery and riparian communities (seasonal peasants and landless) and how this shapes the emergent social order. The research will bring a longue duree perspective on governance and social order by linking with natural resource (land, water) governance and rural class dynamic analysis. It will examine how the social-cultural identity and social cohesion of coastal and riparian communities in lower and upper Myanmar were transformed by different political regimes and capitalist policies over time. Understanding social governance and cultural transformation from this angle will help clarify differences in collective movements, struggles and social order between lower and upper Myanmar.
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Work
- Yin Nyein, Rick Gregory & Aung Kyaw Thein (2020) - Ten Years of Fishery Governance Reform in Myanmar - doi: 10.1355/9789814881050-012
