
Elizabeth Rhoads
Postdoctoral fellow

I am currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Human Rights in Southeast Asia, splitting my time between the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies and the Centre for Human Rights Studies, also in the Department of History. I received my PhD in Law from King's College London, where I was a Dickson Poon Fellow, my M.A. in Human Rights Law from SOAS, and my A.B. in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College. Following completion of my PhD, I received a Blakemore-Freeman Fellowship for studying advanced Burmese language in Yangon, Myanmar and funding from the British Academy as a Co-Investigator and Post-Doctoral Fellow on a grant with University College London's The Bartlett Development Planning Unit.
My research is interdisciplinary, combining legal history, legal anthropology, legal geography, urban studies, and human rights studies in understanding the everyday lived experience of property relations and minority-state relations in Southeast Asia.
Prior to beginning my PhD, I spent four years living in Southeast Asia, in both Myanmar and Indonesia as a student, researcher, and an experiential education specialist. My work in Indonesia as a Fulbright Scholar focused on land and inheritance disputes related to the 1965 anti-communist massacres in Bali, but I've also worked on the linkages between memories of political participation pre-1965 and contemporary women's political participation, exclusive constructions of Balinese identity, women and violent extremism, and transitional justice.
Publications
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Citizenship Denied, Deferred and Assumed : A Legal History of Racialized Citizenship in Myanmar
Elizabeth Rhoads
(2022) Citizenship Studies
Journal articleMyanmar's Hidden-in-plain-sight social infrastructure : Nalehmu through multiple ruptures
Jayde Roberts, Elizabeth Rhoads
(2022) Critical Asian Studies, 54 p.1-21
Journal articleTrajectories of spatial violence in Southeast Asian cities
Elizabeth Rhoads, Shoko Sakuma, Catalina Ortiz, Marina Kouvolou-Kouri, Giovanna Astolfo
(2021) DPU Working paper
Working paperViolations of the Right to Adequate Housing after the Coup on 01 Feb 2021, Myanmar
Elizabeth Rhoads, Shoko Sakuma
(2021)
ReportInformal (Justice) Brokers : Buying, Selling and Disputing Property in Yangon
Elizabeth Rhoads
(2020) NIAS Studies in Asian Topics , p.283-313
Book chapterMyanmar - COVID–19 Monitorıng : Community Assessment
Elizabeth Rhoads, Cho Cho Win, Markus Kostner, Khin Myo Wai, Natacha Caroline Lemasle
(2020)
ReportMyanmar : Urban Housing Diagnostic & COVID-19 Rapid Assessment
Elizabeth Rhoads, Thang Sorn Poine, Cho Cho Win, Helene Kyed
(2020)
ReportProperty, Citizenship, and Invisible Dispossession in Myanmar's Urban Frontier
Elizabeth Rhoads
(2020) Geopolitics
Journal articleProperty in Transition : Uncertainty, Agency and Belonging in Yangon, Myanmar
Elizabeth Rhoads
(2019)
DissertationRethinking land and property in a “transitioning” Myanmar : Representations of isolation, neglect, and natural decline
Elizabeth L. Rhoads, Courtney T. Wittekind
(2018) Journal of Burma Studies, 22 p.171-213
Journal articleForced evictions as urban planning? Traces of colonial land control practices in Yangon, Myanmar
Elizabeth Rhoads
(2018) State Crime Journal, 7 p.278-305
Journal articleWomen's Political Participation in Indonesia : Decentralisation, Money Politics and Collective Memory in Bali
Elizabeth Rhoads
(2012) Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 31 p.35-56
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