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“I’d rather create my own table than sit where I am not wanted.”: A Conversation Between Stella Naw and Jenny Hedström About Myanmar
New York, NY, USA, (USA).
Swedish Defence University, Department of War Studies, Functions and Perspective Division.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9535-3276
2025 (English)In: Brave Women: Fighting for Justice in the 21st Century / [ed] Julia Zulver; Kiran Stallone, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, p. 143-161Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter asks “feminist questions” (Enloe 2004) about the Myanmar Spring Revolution. Following the coup d’état in February 2021, the Myanmar military violently cracked down on protestors and activists opposing its rule. Taking the form of a conversation between an ethnic minority activist and feminist (Stella Naw) who recently fled Myanmar and a feminist researcher of Myanmar (Jenny Hedström) based in Sweden, the authors reflect on what obligations a commitment to feminist struggles and equality imposes on activism and how, and in what ways, continuities of oppression and insecurity affect feminist activism in the midst of war. We ask: What do we see when we shift our focus from the 2021 coup toward other forms of oppression and war? What does it mean to live through revolutions and upheaval as a feminist committed to ethnic equality and justice? What are the opportunities for feminist activism from within military and/or patriarchal organizations, and what do we risk by working from inside? What are the sources of joy and hope within the current protest movement, and what do we need for a true, transformative change to occur in Myanmar?

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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. p. 143-161
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Gender Studies Political Science
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War Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-14020DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-70702-5_10ISBN: 978-3-031-70701-8 (print)ISBN: 978-3-031-70702-5 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:fhs-14020DiVA, id: diva2:1987124
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Swedish Research Council, 2020-01922Available from: 2025-08-05 Created: 2025-08-05 Last updated: 2025-11-28Bibliographically approved

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