Roundtable on Social Media and Social Movements within Myanmar and its Diasporas

This Roundtable focuses on religion, social movements, and social media of Myanmar and its diasporas. Because of the 2021 military coup d'état and prior conflicts, millions born in Burma/Myanmar have been displaced while resistance to military rule has been ongoing. The Myanmar diaspora are committed stakeholders at the “forefront of activism in response to the coup” as the “single most important source of funding” for the resistance movement. Given how much work of nation-building has been occurring within and outside the borders of Myanmar, this Roundtable reflects on Myanmar from multiple perspectives with a public theologian, an anthropologist, a scholar of religion, a political scientist and her PhD student, and a feminist comparativist. This roundtable offers a rare overview of Myanmar and would also be the second time in AAR history that a discussion fully focuses on the often-overlooked multiethnic nation-state of Myanmar.