FASS Staff Profile
DR ELLIOTT PRASSE-FREEMAN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
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- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
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Brief Introduction
Elliott Prasse-Freeman received his PhD from the Department of Anthropology at Yale University. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Myanmar, and has a book in print (Rights Refused, Stanford University Press) on Burmese subaltern political thought as adduced from an extended ethnography of activism and contentious politics in the country's semi-authoritarian setting. Prasse-Freeman also has a book project on Rohingya political subjectivity amidst dislocation and mass violence, with a particular focus on their maneuvers in the context of post-sovereign governmental regimes that incorporate Human Rights discourse, humanitarian care/exclusion, and biopolitical regulation.
Teaching Areas
SC4205 - Sociology of Language and Communication
SC3202 - Southeast Asia in a Globalizing World
SC3227 - Modernity and Social Change
Publications
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Books (monographs)
(2023) Rights Refused: Grassroots activism and state violence in Myanmar, Stanford University Press.
Journal Articles
(2023) “Refusing Rohingya: Reformulating ethnicity amidst blunt biopolitics,” Current Anthropology 64(2).
2023. “Bullets and Boomerangs: Proleptic uses of failure in Myanmar’s anti-coup uprising,” Public Culture 35(1).
2023. “Reassessing Reification: Ethnicity amidst ‘failed’ governmentality in Burma and India,”Comparative Studies in Society and History 65(3).
2022. “Nothing to Lose but their (Block)Chains: Biometrics, Techno-imaginaries, and Transformations in Rohingya Lives,” American Ethnologist 49.4.
2022. “Resistance/Refusal: Politics of Manoeuvre Under Diffuse Regimes of Governmentality,” Anthropological Theory 22.1: 102–127.
2022. “Surplus Precaritization: Supply Chain Capitalism and the Geoeconomics of Hope in Myanmar’s Borderlands,” third author, Political Geography, Vol 95.
2021. “Revisiting the wages of Burman-ness: Contradictions of privilege in Myanmar,” co-author with Stephen Campbell, Journal of Contemporary Asia.
2021. “Necroeconomics: Dispossession, Extraction, and Indispensable/Surplus Populations in Contemporary Myanmar,” Journal of Peasant Studies.
2021. “Hate Bait, Micro-publics, and National(ist) Conversations on Burmese Facebook,” Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship, 2.1: 144-204.
2014. “Fostering an Objectionable Burma Discourse,” Journal of Burma Studies, 18.1.
2012. “Power, Civil Society, and an Inchoate Politics of the Daily in Burma/Myanmar,” Journal of Asian Studies 71.2: 371-397.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
2021. “Expulsion / incorporation: Valences of mass violence in Myanmar,” with Andrew Ong, in Zucker and Kiernan, eds Political Violence in Southeast Asia Since 1945, Routledge.
2020. “Two Sides of the Same Arakanese Coin: ‘Rakhine,’ ‘Rohingya,’ and Ethnogenesis as Schismogenesis,” with Kirt Mausert in Unraveling Myanmar: Critical Hurdles to Myanmar’s Opening Up Process, eds Prasse-Freeman, Chachavalpongpun, and Strefford, Kyoto University Press.
2019. “Of Punishment, Protest, and Press Conferences: Contentious politics amidst despotic decision in contemporary Burmese courtrooms,” in George Radics and Pablo Ciocchini, eds Criminal Legalities in the Global South, Routledge.
2018. “Class and Inequality in Contemporary Myanmar,” with Phyo Win Latt, in The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar. Ian Holliday, Nicholas Farrelly, and Adam Simpson, eds. Routledge, pp 404-418.
2017. “Petit Bourgeois Fantasies: Microcredit, Small-is-Beautiful Solutions, and Development’s New Anti-politics,” in Seduced and Betrayed: Exposing the Contemporary Microfinance Phenomenon. Milford Bateman, ed. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, pp 69-86.
2016. “Grassroots protest movements and mutating conceptions of ‘the political’ in an evolving Burma,” in Metamorphosis: Studies in Social and Political Change in Myanmar. Renaud Egreteau and Francois Robinne, eds. Singapore: NUS Press, pp 69-100.
2015. “Myanmar Conceptions of Justice and the Rule of Law,” in Myanmar: Dynamics, Change and Continuities. D Steinberg ed. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, pp 89-114.
Edited Books
(2020) Unraveling Myanmar: Critical Hurdles to Myanmar’s Opening Up Process (including co-authored “Introduction: Unraveling Myanmar, Myanmar Unraveling?”) with eds Pavin Chachavalpongpun and Patrick Strefford, Kyoto University Press.
Short Academic Pieces
2021. “Revisiting the wages of ‘Burman-ness’ after the Coup.” Tea Circle Oxford, 9-Sept-2021, with Stephen Campbell.
2021. “Revolutionary Responses to the Myanmar Coup,” Anthropology Today 37.3 (2021): 1-2, with Ko Kabya.
2021. “The View of the Coup from the Camp: Myanmar’s Emergent Trans-Ethnic Solidarity,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 17-March-2021, with Tani Sebro.
2020. “The Hidden Heterogeneity of Rohingya Refugees,” New Mandala, June 2020, second author with Nursyazwani/
2020. “Data Subjectivity in What State?” Harvard International Law Journal.
2020. “Aung San Suu Kyi and the ICJ,” Anthropology Today, 36.1 (2020).
2019. “Blockchain Reactions: The peril and promise of techno-governance for stateless Rohingya,” Platypus, Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing Blog, 30 July 2019.
2017. “The Rohingya Crisis,” Anthropology Today, 33.6, December 2017.
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