Mikael Gravers is Associate Professor, Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark. He has conducted fieldwork in Thailand and Burma/ Myanmar since 1970, where he has worked among Buddhist and Christian Karen and in Buddhist monasteries. He speaks Pwo Karen. He is the author of Nationalism as Political Paranoia in Burma (London, Curzon Press, 1999) and edited Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Burma (Copenhagen, NIAS Press, 2007). In 2014 he co-edited Burma/Myanmar – Where Now? (Copenhagen, NIAS Press) with Flemming Ytzen. He is currently a senior researcher in the Danish-funded research project 'Everyday Justice and Security in the Myanmar Transition' in collaboration with the Danish Institute of International Studies (DIIS) and the Department of Anthropology, Yangon University.
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