Pleased to share my new chapter co-written with Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona in the The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict: ‘War, Genocide, and Heritage in Myanmar’. Available here.
The chapter argues that in Myanmar (also known as Burma), tangible and intangible cultural heritage have been instrumentalized as tools of genocide against the Rohingya minority, and have commonly been used as key markers of difference between conflicting actors in the long-running civil war. Myanmar has seen widespread destruction of tangible cultural heritage, government restrictions on minority cultural practices, but also the privileging of certain heritage sites through government protection and promotion practices. This entry examines patterns of cultural heritage destruction and protection, which are presented within a framework based on the key, often intersecting, goals of the principal actors: genocide, war, and state-building.
Ronan Lee and Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona (2026). ‘War, Genocide, and Heritage in Myanmar’. In: Saloul, I., Baillie, B. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5_100-1
Dr Ronan Lee 