My current book project, Aesthetic Nationalism: The Dance of War and Exile along the Thai-Myanmar Border, addresses the relationship between nationalism, aesthetics, and mobility amongst Burmese refugees. I critique traditional iterations of the nation as constituted through the interaction between capitalism and print, by instead attending to the complex transmission of what can be called “aesthetic nationalisms,” which involve embodied performances and cultural practices that constitute the body-politic.
PUBLICATIONS
Special Issues
Sethi, Arshiya and Tani Sebro. 2019. “Dancing Under the Shadow of the Nation,” Special Issue of Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies: Volume XXXIX.
Refereed Journal Articles and Essays
Mostafanezhad, Mary, Tani Sebro, Elliott Prasse-Freeman, and Roger Norum. 2022. “Surplus Precaritization: Supply Chain Capitalism and the Geoeconomics of Hope in Myanmar’s Borderlands.” Political Geography 95 (May 1): 102561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102561.
Prasse-Freeman, Elliott, and Tani Sebro. 2021. “The View of the Coup from the Camp: Myanmar’s Emergent Trans-Ethnic Solidarity.” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, March 17. https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2021/03/17/https-twitter-com-natrani-status-1360993418445524999- photo-1/.
Sebro, Tani. 2019. “The Aesthetic Nationalism of Exile: Hidden Transcripts from the Thai- Myanmar Border.” In Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies: “Dancing Under the Shadow of the Nation.” Arshiya Sethi & Tani Sebro (eds.). Volume XXXIX.
Sebro, Tani and Arshiya Sethi. 2019. “On the Umbra and Penumbra of Nations: A Word from the Guest Editors.” In Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies: “Dancing Under the Shadow of the Nation.” Arshiya Sethi & Tani Sebro (eds.). Volume XXXIX.
Sebro, Tani. 2017. “Uneven Humanitarianism: Abandoned Refugees in the Thai-Myanmar Border- Zone.” Review of Human Rights, Vol. 2, no. 1: 65-86.
Mary Mostafanezhad, Roger Norum and Tani Sebro. 2016. “The Chronopolitics of Exile: Hope, Heterotemporality and NGO economics along the Thai-Burma Border.” Critique of Anthropology 36, no. 1: 61–83.
Sebro, Tani. 2014. “”Voting with our Feet” and Speaking for the Silent: Negotiating the Burmese Past.” Explorations: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 12(1).
Sebro, Tani. 2008. “Burma: Reproductive Rights in a State of Violence.” Treganza Museum Anthropology Papers: Human Rights in Global Light, 99-103 (2007-2008).
Book Chapters
Sebro, Tani, and Jordan Hallbauer. 2021 “Tourism Otherwise? The Touristic Mobilities of South- South Travel.” In Tourism Geopolitics: Assemblages of Infrastructure, Affect, and Imagination, edited by Mary Mostafanezhad, Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, and Roger Norum, 185–206. University of Arizona Press, 2021.
Sebro, Tani. 2016. “Necromobility/Choreomobility: Dance, Death and Displacement in the Thai- Burma Border-Zone.” In Event Mobilities: The Politics of Place and Performance. Kevin Hannam, Mary Mostafanezhad and Jillian M. Rickly-Boyd (eds). Routledge (2016).
Book Reviews
Sebro, Tani. 2018. The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma. Ward Keeler. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press. 2017. Pg 433-434. American Ethnologist 45(3).
In Preparation
Monographs
Sebro, Tani. (In preparation). Aesthetic Nationalism: The Dance of War and Exile along the Thai-Myanmar Border.
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