Table of Contents

Introduction: Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar Nick Cheesman 1. The Contentious Politics of Anti-Muslim Scapegoating in Myanmar Gerry van Klinken and Su Mon Thazin Aung 2. Reconciling Contradictions: Buddhist-Muslim Violence, Narrative Making and Memory in Myanmar Matt Schissler, Matthew J. Walton and Phyu Phyu Thi 3. Gendered Rumours and the Muslim Scapegoat in Myanmar’s Transition Gerard McCarthy and Jacqueline Menager 4. Communal Conflict in Myanmar: The Legislature’s Response, 2012–2015 Chit Win and Thomas Kean 5. Producing the News: Reporting on Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis Lisa Brooten and Yola Verbruggen 6. How in Myanmar “National Races” Came to Surpass Citizenship and Exclude Rohingya Nick Cheesman

About the Author

Nick Cheesman is a Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Change, Australian National University, Australia, and author of Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar’s Courts Make Law and Order (2015).