Youth Citizenship and Democracy in Conflict-Affected Myanmar

Liyun Wendy Choo

International & Comparative Education, Teachers College,

Columbia University

Thursday, April 27, 2023, 3:30-4:30pm

305 Russell (TC Library)

Citizenship is a critical component of statebuilding and peacebuilding efforts in conflict-affected states, yet it is also the most neglected. Taking a critical realist, ethnographic case study approach, this presentation investigates the problem of state fragility in conflict-affected, postcolonial Myanmar from the lenses of state formation and youth citizenship. It responds to calls by Southeast Asian scholars to study citizenship ‘from below’ and to pay attention to the particular forms that citizenship takes in postcolonial states.