Humanitarian Assistance to Myanmar: Assessing Aid Delivery in Conflict Zones, Global Governance Research Center Democracy and Human Rights Program Issue Briefing, 50 , 2024

今村 真央

Single Author

Humanitarian Assistance to Myanmar, Democracy and Human Rights Program Issue Briefing (Japanese), (48) , 2023.11

Masao Imamura

Single Author

ミャンマー紛争地への人道支援 ―現地の状況, グローバル・ガバナンス研究センター民主主義・人権プログラム Issue Briefing, 48 , 2023

今村 真央

Single Author

ミャンマー紛争地への人道支援 ―現地の状況, グローバル・ガバナンス研究センター民主主義・人権プログラム Issue Briefing, 48 , 2023

今村 真央

Single Author

<Book Reviews>Hisashi Shimojo. Intangible Spaces: A Social History of Survival in the Mekong Delta. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2021, 570 p., Asian and African Area Studies, 22(1) 118-122, 2022.09

IMAMURA Masao

Single Author

Myanmar's Resilient Junta, Bulletin of Asia-Pacific Studies, 24(1) 251-254, 2022

IMAMURA Masao

Single Author

A Coup d'état in the Context of a Long Civil War: Viewed from a Periphery, (948) 230-240, 2021.09

Single Author

The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century by Thant Myint-U, Journal of Asian Studies, 80(2) 528-531, 2021.05

Masao Imamura

Single Author

Vocabulary for Sexual Diversity: Endonyms and Exonyms of Minorities, LGBT Politics and Southeast Asia: What Are Contested about Sexual Minorities, 36-62, 2021

Masao Imamura

Single Author

“Religion and Modernity" and Southeast Asia Studies, Southeast Asia: History and Culture, 2019(48) 71-82, 2019

IMAMURA Masao

Single Author

Evangelical Vernacularism: How Protestant Missions Have Delineated the Ethno-linguistic Boundaries in Upland Southeast Asia, Compilation of Papers presented at the Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia Conference 2017, 1 1-28, 2018

今村 真央

Single Author

On the Mobility of Religious Communities: Migration and Translation of Protestant Christianity--seen from Southeast Asia, 山形大学人文社会科科学部研究年報, 15 201-214, 2018

今村 真央

Single Author

Evangelical Vernacularism: How Protestant Missions Have Delineated the Ethno-linguistic Boundaries in Upland Southeast Asia, Compilation of Papers presented at the Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia Conference 2017, 1 1-28, 2018

今村 真央

Single Author

Christianity, Encyclopedia of Southeast Asian Cultures, 218-219, 2019

Masao Imamura

On the Mobility of Religious Communities: Migration and Translation of Protestant Christianity--seen from Southeast Asia, 山形大学人文社会科科学部研究年報, 15 201-214, 2018

今村 真央

Toward a New Paradigm of Studies on Religions of Mainland Southeast Asia，2016.04 - 2020.03，Toward a New Paradigm of Studies on Religions of Mainland Southeast Asia

Findings of this joint research show that multi-game approach is effective to understand actual religions in mainland Southeast Asia in order to overcome shortcomings of existing doctrine-centered approach as well as syncretism theory, and that this approach can enlarge our scope to interpret dynamics of religions in the region, in which Theravada Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism, and non-Buddhist traditions coexist in competition.

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

A Survey on the Transition and Resilience of a 'War-affected Society' on the Southeast Asian Mainland，2015.04 - 2019.03，A Survey on the Transition and Resilience of a 'War-affected Society' on the Southeast Asian Mainland

This research project has attempted to review the transition of society on the Southeast Asian mainland.It is based on the hypothesis that this area is home to a 'War-affected society'in which the livelihoods of local people have been seriously impacted by long-term warfare. Data was collected from interviews with the war-affected,such as internally displaced persons,women,ethnic minorities and those who had surrendered.Despite hostilities which displaced people from their home land and divided local communities,analysis of the findings reveals that they managed to rebuild new social relations and new livelihoods during and after the war.Such efforts were seen in the creation of new multi-ethnic and multi-religious communities in areas to which they had relocated. Findings further show that they survived through making strategic choices between cooperation and resistance to state policy and armies, as well as engaging in cultivating commercial crops in the war and thereafter.

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

From Frontiers to Boundaries: How was the borderline drawn between British Burma and China (1886-1941)?，2015.04 - 2018.03，From Frontiers to Boundaries: How was the borderline drawn between British Burma and China (1886-1941)?

The project primarily used archival and secondary resources, while carrying out filed work in multiple countries including China, Myanmar, and India. I conducted an extensive inventory of the secondary literature including the most recent dissertations. In response to the advancements made by the recent studies, I have sought to (a) broadened the scope of inquiry, (b) analyze changes within the borderlands, especially in language and religion, and (c) present a conceptual model under which cases from Asia can be meaningfully compared. I arrived at a four-fold model of geopolitical order: zomia, mandala, empire, and nation-state. This four-fold model, I contend, can capture better the historical trajectories of borderlands in Asia.

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

SEASIA, International presentation, 2016.12, Protestant vernacularism among the Kachin of northern Myanmar,, Oral presentation (general)

Public talk at Humanity Institute, International presentation, 2016.08, Coping with Linguistic Diversity: Cosmopolitanism and Vernacularism in Southeast Asia, Oral presentation (general)

Language, Power and Identity in Asia: Creating and Crossing Language Boundaries , International presentation, 2016.03, Politics of Kachin Orthography: Large versus Small Group Identification in Highland Myanmar, Oral presentation (general)

Zomia Study Group, International presentation, 2016.02, Rethinking the Hill-Plain Divide in Southeast Asia: Putting Geophysical and Cultural Landscapes to Good Use., Oral presentation (general)

Indigenous Christianity in the Asia-Pacific Region, International presentation, 2015.11, Vernacularism and Protestantism among the Kachin of northern Myanmar,, Oral presentation (general)

The Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting , International presentation, 2015.03, Introduction: Rethinking the Hill-Plain Divide: Putting Geophysical and Mental Landscapes of Southeast Asia to Good Use., Oral presentation (general)

International Institute for Asian Studies, International presentation, 2015.03, Politics of Kachin orthography: Large versus small group ethnic identification in highland Myanmar, Language, Power and Identity in Asia: Creating and Crossing Language Boundaries , Oral presentation (general)

The 38th Southeast Asia Seminar: Connectivity in Southeast Asia., International presentation, 2014.11, The Cosmopolitan and the Vernacular: Two Modes of Connectivity., Oral presentation (general)

The Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, International presentation, 2014.11, Rethinking the Hill-Plain Divide: Putting Geophysical and Mental Landscapes of Southeast Asia to Good Use, Oral presentation (general)

The Association for Asian Studies in Asia, International presentation, 2014.07, Indigenization of Protestantism among Southeast Asian Highlanders: Vernacularism, Trans-localism, and Conversion Narrative., Oral presentation (general)

Frontier Frictions: Cultural Encounters, Exchange, and Emergence in Asian Uplands. The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, International presentation, 2013.11, Vernacularism and Imagined Geography. Dynamics of Frontier, Seen from Upland Southeast Asia., Oral presentation (general)

The Seventh European Association for South East Asian Studies Conference , International presentation, 2013.07, Indigenization of Protestant Evangelism in Burma (Myanmar)., Oral presentation (general)

Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia , International presentation, 2013.06, Reproduction of Mission Frontiers: or Why Protestantism Can Climb the Hills of Southeast Asia., Oral presentation (general)

Religion, Secularity, and the Public Sphere in East and Southeast Asia. Asian Research Institute, International presentation, 2013.03, Evangelical Counterpublics of Southeast Asian Highlanders: Use and Abuse of Protestant Modernity among the Kachin People of Myanmar., Oral presentation (general)

Orders and Itineraries: Buddhist, Islamic, and Christian Networks in Southern Asia, c. 900-1900 held by the Asian Research Institute, , International presentation, 2013.02, Protestant Vernacularism and Reproductions of Frontier Missions: The Making of Indigenous Christianity in Nineteenth Century Myanmar., Oral presentation (general)

Interface, Negotiation, and Interaction in Southeast Asia. Academia Sinica, International presentation, 2012.02, Imperial Frontiers, Small and Large, Across Time and Space., Oral presentation (general)

Radically Envisioning a Different Southeast Asia: From a Non-State Perspective. Center for Southeast Asian Studies, International presentation, 2011.01, Missions and Conversions to Modernity in a State Frontier: Christianity and Kachin., Oral presentation (general)

The IUAES (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences) World Congress, International presentation, 2009.07, Ethnography as/of/and Translation: the Case of Tai., Oral presentation (general)

Transborder Issues in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region, International presentation, 2005.07, Transboundary water issues in the Mekong region., Oral presentation (general)

国際学術講演会「地域は移民と国民の分断に向かうのか？」，2023.03