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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Palimpsest Constitution with Melissa Crouch
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, 4 August 2026 for a book talk with author Mellisa Crouch for her new work “The Palimpsest Constitution: The Social Life of Constitutions in Myanmar.” The talk will be held 10 am to noon in RCSD study room 02-001\, 2F\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University\, moderated by Gustaaf Houtman\, editor of Anthropology Today. \nSince the mid-20th century\, many postcolonial states have engaged in multiple constitution-making exercises\, with the turnover in written constitutions often due to coups or internal conflict. Conversely\, people have resisted authoritarian rule through alternative constitution-making. The reality that most countries have had numerous official and unofficial constitutional texts begs the question: How do past constitutions matter in the present? This volume explores the social life of constitutional legacies\, or how past constitutions matter. \nUsing the case of Myanmar\, Professor Crouch demonstrates that constitutions are a palimpsest of past texts\, ideas\, and practices\, an accumulation of contested legacies. Through constitutional ethnography\, it traces Burma/Myanmar’s modern constitutional history from the late colonial era through its postcolonial\, socialist\, and military regimes. The Palimpsest Constitution captures the idea that contemporary debates about constitutional reform are informed by the contested legacies of the past. In Myanmar\, the military insists on the endurance of its 2008 Constitution while pro-civilian actors resist military rule through alternative constitution-making endeavours. Offering a sociological view of constitutional endurance\, the book demonstrates how the social life of constitutions is central to the struggle for constitutional democracy and civilian rule in Myanmar. \n  \n 
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/book-talk-the-palimpsest-constitution-with-melissa-crouch/
LOCATION:RCSD Classroom 02-001\, 2nd floor\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Science\, Chiang Mai University\, A. Muang\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
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