Politics: Martin Smith, S2, Ep3 - Dysfunctional Language: challenges of ethnicity, citizenship and identity
From Info for Ethnic Groups in Myanmar by IEGM
December 8, 2025 · 11 min · Season 4 · Episode 3
About this episode
Martin Smith discusses the challenges of ethnicity, citizenship, and identity in Myanmar based on his extensive research and publications.
Martin Smith has researched and reported about Burma/Myanmar and ethnic nationality affairs since the early 1980s for a variety of media, non-governmental and academic organisations. His publications include Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups in Burma: Development, Democracy and Human Rights, State of Strife: The Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict in Burma, and Arakan (Rakhine State): A Land in Conflict on Myanmar’s Western Frontier. He is a co-founder of the Prospect Bur...
People in this episode
Guest: Martin Smith
Topics covered
- ethnicity
- citizenship
- identity
- politics
- Myanmar
- ethnic conflict
Keywords
- Myanmar
- ethnicity
- citizenship
- identity
- politics
- ethnic conflict
- Martin Smith
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Prospect Bur
Books & works: Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups in Burma: Development, Democracy and Human Rights, State of Strife: The Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict in Burma, Arakan (Rakhine State): A Land in Conflict on Myanmar’s Western Frontier
Places: Burma/Myanmar
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