Updated on 2025/03/27

写真a

 
Fujimura Hitomi
 
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Faculty of Law and Letters Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Social Sciences Senior Assistant Professor
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Senior Assistant Professor
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Degree

  • 博士号(地域研究) ( 上智大学 )

  • 修士号(地域研究) ( 上智大学 )

  • B.A in International Relatoins

Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Area studies  / 東南アジア地域研究

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / History of Asia and Africa  / 東南アジア史、ビルマ史

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Cultural anthropology and folklore  / キリスト教宣教、カレン研究

Education

  • Sophia University   Graduate School of Global Studies   Doctoral Program in Area Studies

    2013.4 - 2019.3

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    Country: Japan

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  • Sophia University   Graduate School of Global Studies   Master Degree in Area Studies

    2011.4 - 2013.3

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    Country: Japan

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  • State University of New York at Geneseo   Department of International Relations

    2006.5 - 2010.5

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    Country: United States

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Research History

  • Ehime University   Faculty of Law and Letters The department of humanities   Lecturer

    2023.4

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    Country:Japan

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  • York University   York Centre for Asian Research   Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    2021.11 - 2022.10

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    Country:Canada

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  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science   Postdoctoral fellow

    2021.4 - 2023.3

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    Country:Japan

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  • Sophia University   Faculty of Global Studies Department of Global Studies

    2020.9 - 2021.9

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    Country:Japan

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  • Meiji University   School of Arts and Letters

    2019.4 - 2021.9

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    Country:Japan

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  • Sophia University   Graduate School of Global Studies

    2019.4 - 2021.3

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    Country:Japan

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  • Kokushikan University   School of Asia 21 Department of Asia 21

    2018.4 - 2021.3

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    Country:Japan

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  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

    2017.4 - 2019.3

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  • ヤンゴン大学   歴史学科   博士研究員

    2015.12 - 2016.11

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    Country:Myanmar

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Committee Memberships

  • 東南アジア学会   総務委員  

    2023.1   

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  • 東南アジア学会   編集委員  

    2021.1 - 2022.12   

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  • 東南アジア学会   会計委員  

    2019.1 - 2020.12   

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Papers

  • The twofold challenge for Karen Baptist intellectuals in colonial Burma: A national claim and its failure Reviewed

    Hitomi Fujimura

    Journal of Southeast Asian Studies   53 ( 3 )   488 - 511   2022.10

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    Two years after the Anglo-Burmese War, with the British colonial takeover of Burma complete and yet still subject to outbreaks of rebellions, a small group of Karen Baptist intellectuals in Rangoon who formed the Karen National Association (KNA), attempted to assert a political claim to Karen nationhood. This article focuses on two letters, in English and Sgaw Karen, presented by Karen delegates on the occasion of the ceremony to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887 in Rangoon, to investigate the colonial politics of loyalty and national claim. It argues that the letters were written for two different audiences, and by doing so the Karen Baptists were asserting dual claims; one directed at the British colonial authorities and the other, the wider population of Karen in Burma, with their multiple Karennic languages and religious and other affiliations. Both appeals failed to get the desired responses, however. This article then discusses the contradiction that this assertion of Karen nationhood alienated the Baptist leaders from their own diverse community.

    DOI: 10.1017/s0022463422000613

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  • Disentangling the Colonial Narrative of the Karen National Association of 1881: The Motive behind Karen Baptist Intellectuals’ Claim for a Nation Reviewed International journal

    Hitomi Fujimura

    Journal of Burma Studies   24 ( 2 )   275 - 314   2020.12

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    DOI: 10.1353/jbs.2020.0011

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  • A Study on the Impact of Introducing Literacy through the Baptist Mission: The Inseparability of Religion and Literacy in the Karen World Reviewed

    Hitomi Fujimura

    57 ( 2 )   136 - 165   2020.1

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  • A Reconsideration of the Historical Context of the Formation of KNA in 1881 in British Burma Reviewed

    Hitomi Fujimura

    AGLOS:Journal of Area-Based Global Studies   8   19 - 51   2019.7

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  • 19世紀英領ビルマにおける米国バプテスト派宣教と植民地支配:カレン・バプテスト側の理解と対応の諸相 Reviewed

    藤村瞳

    2019.3

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  • Reconsideration of the Karen Image in Mid-Nineteenth Century Burma within the Context of the American Baptist Mission Reviewed

    Hitomi Fujimura

    Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies   52 ( 2 )   295 - 322   2015.1

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    This paper aims to argue for a reconsideration of the historical interpretation of the Karen image in Burma through a contextual analysis of descriptions of Karen Baptists in the mid-nineteenth century. <br>&emsp;Karen history has been written with a heavy focus on Karen Baptists, who account for only a minority of the Karen population, and has relied on missionary documents accumulated in the nineteenth century. This Baptist-centered viewpoint is under criticism since it overlooks the existence of the remaining majority, Buddhist Karens. In addition, it has been pointed out that the image of the Karens is biased since it is based on foreigners' views: missionaries' writings on the Karens were highly vulnerable to the missionaries' own motives to depict the Karens the way they wanted them to be. This paper sets its focus on the latter argument, since there has not been enough analysis on it; if the writings on the Karens are biased due to missionaries' views, those descriptions and background factors need to be understood within the context of the Baptist mission. <br>&emsp;Examining a missionary writing, <i>The Karen Apostle</i>, as an example in the formation of the Karen image, this paper clarifies that Baptist doctrines and mission policies had an important influence on the depiction of Karen Baptists. The author Francis Mason described the first Karen convert, Ko Thah Byu, as an example of &ldquo;ideally hardworking, pious Baptists&rdquo; to emphasize the success of the Karen mission and obtain financial support for future development. This finding implies that the depiction of Karen Baptists in the mid-nineteenth century should be interpreted not only in terms of ethnicity or nation but also with reference to American Baptist history. This viewpoint calls for a need to reconsider the historical understanding of Karens from a different perspective, such as from within the context of the American Baptist mission.

    DOI: 10.20495/tak.52.2_295

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  • A View of the Karen Baptists in Burma of the Mid-Nineteenth Century, from the Standpoint of the American Baptist Mission Invited

    Hitomi Fujimura

    32 ( 32 )   129 - 145   2014.12

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Books

  • Living with Myanmar

    ( Role: ContributorThe Emergence of Dawkalu in the Karen Ethnic Claim in the 1880s and the Beginning of Contestations for "Native Races")

    2020.10 

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  • 19世紀ビルマにおける「自給のカレン宣教」の歴史的位相 : スゴー・カレン語史料の検討をつうじたバセイン地域宣教の実態の解明

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    Occasional Papers, 上智大学アジア文化研究所  2018 

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Presentations

  • Ambivalent Relations or Inter-dependence? : American Missionaries and Karen Baptists in the Making of Mission Knowledge in Burma/Myanmar Invited International conference

    Hitomi Fujimura

    “Shaping “Intelligence” from the Bottom Up: Investigations and the Role of Southeast Asia’s Marginal Figures in the Production of Knowledge”  2024.5  Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore

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  • Contesting Knowledge Production of the Karen Mission: Historical Shifts in Producing and Reinterpreting Facts and Authenticity International conference

    Hitomi Fujimura

    Association for Asian Studies  2024.3 

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  • Inter-religiosity of temperance and moral campaigns in Colonial Burma (Roundtable: Religious Encounters in and beyond Myanmar) International conference

    Hitomi Fujimura

    American Academy of Religion  2023.11 

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  • ‘Drunk Men and Moral Women’: Gendered Discourse of the Ethical Movements in Colonial Burma (1890s–1910s)

    Hitomi Fujimura

    Plural Pasts for Collective Futures in Burma/Myanmar: Histories of Belonging and Identities (Re)Imagined  2023.8 

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  • Ethnicizing the Religious Moment or Performing the Ideal, Advanced Converts? : The Reactions of Burmese and Karen Baptists upon the Judson Centennial of 1913”

    International Burma Studies Conference  2021.9 

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  • Awareness of Nationality and the Responsibility for Nation through the Christian Youth Networks: A Case Study of the Burmese Baptists in the 1900s

    Hitomi Fujimura

    2022.2 

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  • 民族と宗教 Invited

    藤村瞳

    2021年度慶応義塾大学言語文化研究所公開講座:『ミャンマーの民族』  2021.10 

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  • Making Religion through Moral Practice in Colonial Burma: Intoxication, Women and Inter-religious Collaboration

    Hitomi Fujimura

    2022.10 

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  • Claiming Karen as National Identity: Transnational Experiences of Karen Baptists in Nineteenth-Century America and British Burma Invited

    Gatty Lecture, Southeast Asian Program, Cornell University  2022.10 

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  • Beyond the Historical Imaginary of the Fixed Ethnoreligious Identity: Hybridity and Connectivity among Baptists in Colonial Moulmein

    Hitomi Fujimura

    2023.6 

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  • モーラミャイン・ビルマバプテスト教会からみるエスニシティ の複数性と女性の歴史

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    ビルマ研究会  2023.5 

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  • Knowing Burma: outside in, inside out (Roundtable) Invited

    Hitomi Fujimura

    2023.6 

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  • 「ブエはプワカニョウか?」―1850年代タウングー宣教におけるスゴー・カレン伝道師のカレン民族観

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    第25回ビルマ研究会  2017.4 

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  • 19世紀末ビルマにおけるカレン民族協会結成(1881)の再考―バプテスト派各個教会との関係に着目して―

    藤村瞳

    東南アジア学会関西例会  2014.10 

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  • Baptist Karen’s Quest for the Official Status of British Burma and their Intent in the 1880s,

    Hitomi Fujimura

    International Symposium (Beyond the Myth of ‘Solidarity of National Races’ in Burma)  2018 

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  • Being Baptists, Becoming Karens

    Hitomi Fujimura

    SEASIA International Conference  2017.12 

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  • A History of the Encounter with Western Modernity and Confrontation to the Distortion of Colonialism: A Case of Baptist Karen Intellectuals in Nineteenth-Century Burma,

    Hitomi Fujimura

    SOAS-Oxford Graduate Student Workshop: New Directions in Research of Myanmar  2018.6 

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  • 19世紀英領ビルマにおけるバプテスト・カレン知識人たちの「忠誠」の表明とその政治的意図

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    第99回東南アジア学会  2018.5 

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  • Baptist Karen Intellectuals’ Pursuit of Official Recognition in British Burma: Participation in the 1881 Census and the Formation of the KNA International conference

    Hitomi Fujimura

    International Burma Studies Conference  2018.8 

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  • “Perceptions and Responses to Western Modernity and Colonialism through Eyes of Baptist Karen Intellectuals in the Nineteenth Century Burma

    Hitomi Fujimura

    13th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore  2018.7 

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  • 19世紀英領ビルマにおけるキリスト宣教と植民地支配:カレン・バプテストの理解と対応 Invited

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    緬甸勉強会  2020.2 

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  • How Did the Term “Dawkalu” Come to Be Used? A Historical Consideration of Proclamation of Ethnicity by Karen Intellectuals in the 1880s Invited

    2019 Myanmar Update  2019.3 

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  • 19世紀半ばのビルマにおける米国バプティスト派宣教師のカレン像―形成とその背景―

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    第89回東南アジア学会研究大会  2013.6 

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  • 19世紀ビルマにおける米国バプティスト派宣教師のカレン人像形成-キリスト教徒カレンに関する伝記とその言説分析を中心に―

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    東南アジア学会関東例会  2013.1 

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  • 1881年の設立当初におけるカレン民族協会に関する一考察‐バセイン宣教史との比較検討から‐

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    第22回ビルマ研究会  2014.4 

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Research Projects

  • 宗教実践のトランスナショナルな意味変容:四国のミャンマー・パゴダを事例に

    2023.7 - 2024.3

    愛媛大学  若手研究活動スタート支援 

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  • Two sides of the coin of Gender-making in British Burma: the WCTU and Karayuki-san

    2023.4 - 2027.3

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    Grant amount:\3510000 ( Direct Cost: \2700000 、 Indirect Cost:\810000 )

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  • Plural Pasts for Collective Futures in Burma/Myanmar: Histories of Belonging and Identities (Re)Imagined,

    2023.4 - 2024.3

    The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canadian government  SSHRC Connections Grant 

    Alicia Turner

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  • A Critical Reconsideration on the Conjuncture of Nation and Religion and the Discourse Making in British Burma

    2021.4 - 2024.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows

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    Grant amount:\4810000 ( Direct Cost: \3700000 、 Indirect Cost:\1110000 )

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  • Christian Dynamics of the Making of Nation, Ethnicity, Religion in British Burma (1865- 1915)

    2019.4 - 2021.3

    The Resona Foundation for Asia and Oceania  Research Project Grant for 2019 

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  • 19世紀のカレンバプテスト宣教に関する実証的研究―植民地ビルマにおける近代化再考

    2017.4 - 2019.3

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業 特別研究員奨励費  特別研究員奨励費

    藤村 瞳

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    平成30年度の一番の成果として、博士論文執筆・提出を終え、審査ののち学位を取得したことが挙げられる。博士論文を最終的にまとめるにあたり、国内外での研究発表を複数回行った。また、博士論文執筆のフォロー調査として、海外での史料収集も実施した。
    平成30年度は、海外での史料収集調査を三度行った。まず、2018年6月に、英国・ロンドンの大英図書館において、一週間かけて史料を収集・閲覧した。続いて、2019年2月から3月にかけて、米国・アトランタのAmerican Baptist Historical Societyにて一週間半ほど、史料調査を行った。さらに、2019年3月には合計2週間ほど、ミャンマー(ビルマ)・ヤンゴンに滞在し、国立文書館での史料調査と、カレン神学校での聞き取りを実施した。このビルマでの調査は、2018年9月に提出した博士論文の内容および口頭試問での質疑応答を踏まえたうえで行ったもので、十分に論じきれなかった点について今後より精査していくための追加調査である。
    平成30年度は、5回の学会発表(国内:1、海外:4)を行った。英国・オックスフォード(6月)およびシンガポール(7月)にて開催された大学院生・若手研究者向けの博論執筆のためのワークショップに参加したことは、博士論文を執筆し推敲するうえで大いに役立つものであった。加えて、タイとオーストラリアで開催されたビルマ地域研究に特化した国際会議においても研究報告を行い、海外研究者とのネットワークをさらに広げることができた。
    上記の活動とあわせて博士論文の執筆をすすめ、2018年9月末に学位請求論文として上智大学に提出した。論文最終審査となる口頭試問および審査の結果合格となり、学位授与が決定した。

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  • A Socio-Economic Situation in the Early Phase of British Burma, through a Study of the Local Newspapers in the Mid-nineteenth Century of Burma

    2017.4 - 2018.3

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  • The Crafting of Karen National Sence in the Nineteenth century of Burma

    2014.12 - 2016.11

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Teaching Experience

  • Instroduction to Historical Studies

    2024.4 Institution:Ehime University

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  • Seminar on Southeast Asian Studies

    2023.9 Institution:Ehime University

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  • Introductory Area Studies

    2023.9 Institution:Ehime University

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  • Study Abroad Program

    2023.4 Institution:Ehime University

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  • Southeast Asian Studies

    2023.4 Institution:Ehime University

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  • Advanced Seminar on Southeast Asian Studies

    2023.4 Institution:Ehime University

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  • Advanced Studies: Ethnicity and Religion in Asia

    2020.9 - 2021.9 Institution:Sophia University

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  • History of Southeast Asia

    2019.4 - 2021.9 Institution:Meiji University

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  • Burmese

    2018.4 - 2021.3 Institution:Kokushikan University

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Media Coverage

  • Episode 78: Hitomi Fujimura, York Centre for Asian Research, York University

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Academic Activities

  • Plural Pasts for Collective Futures in Burma/Myanmar: Histories of Belonging and Identities (Re)Imagined

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    Alicia Turner, Hitomi Fujimura  2023.8

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  • Beyond the Myth of ‘Solidarity of National Races’ in Burma

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    2018.1

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