Democratic backsliding disrupted: The role of digitalized resistance in Myanmar
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Democratic backsliding disrupted : The role of digitalized resistance in Myanmar. / Ryan, Megan; Tran, Mai Van.
I: Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, Bind 9, Nr. 1, 2024, s. 133-158.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Democratic backsliding disrupted
T2 - The role of digitalized resistance in Myanmar
AU - Ryan, Megan
AU - Tran, Mai Van
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - More than one year since its coup, the Myanmar military has neither established effective control of the territory nor crushed online dissent. What factors have enabled the resistance forces to deny the consolidation of military rule? We address this question by building a novel theoretical framework that incorporates the role of long-standing digitalized pro-democracy activism and conducting a mixed-method analysis that includes an original, largely representative sample of public Facebook posts in post-coup Myanmar. We find that the development of online and hybrid pro-democracy activism against digital abuse and other illiberal policies under previous quasi-civilian governments enabled anti-coup resistance forces to thwart the military’s attempt of authoritarian revival in 2021. Our research findings deepen understanding of Myanmar’s post-coup contestation dynamics as well as other cases of unpopular autocratization in the current-day digital era.
AB - More than one year since its coup, the Myanmar military has neither established effective control of the territory nor crushed online dissent. What factors have enabled the resistance forces to deny the consolidation of military rule? We address this question by building a novel theoretical framework that incorporates the role of long-standing digitalized pro-democracy activism and conducting a mixed-method analysis that includes an original, largely representative sample of public Facebook posts in post-coup Myanmar. We find that the development of online and hybrid pro-democracy activism against digital abuse and other illiberal policies under previous quasi-civilian governments enabled anti-coup resistance forces to thwart the military’s attempt of authoritarian revival in 2021. Our research findings deepen understanding of Myanmar’s post-coup contestation dynamics as well as other cases of unpopular autocratization in the current-day digital era.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - democratic backsliding
KW - autocratization
KW - military coup
KW - digital repression
KW - anti-coup resistance
KW - digital activism
KW - Myanmar
U2 - 10.1177/20578911221125511
DO - 10.1177/20578911221125511
M3 - Journal article
VL - 9
SP - 133
EP - 158
JO - Asian Journal of Comparative Politics
JF - Asian Journal of Comparative Politics
SN - 2057-8911
IS - 1
ER -
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