Associate Professor Nick Cheesman
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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