Associate Professor Nick Cheesman

Position: Associate Professor - Department of Social Change
School and/or Centres: Gender Institute

Email: nick.cheesman@anu.edu.au

Researcher profile: https://researchprofiles.anu.edu.au/en/persons/nick-cheesman

  • Politics of law and policing in mainland Southeast Asia, in particular, Myanmar (Burma)
  • How language animates actions, how categories determine meanings, and how ideas constitute practices
  • How torture occurs in Myanmar and Thailand 
  • The relationship between violence and the state

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