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Yangon Stories aims to frame the potentials of a living heritage approach to informal settlements to challenge existing dynamics of spatial violence in Yangon in order to mobilize more inclusive urban planning practices. This project brings a unique perspective to the intersections of heritage, violence and dignity by linking spatial violence trajectories with situated storytelling about heritage-making. We view forms of contestation and agency of informal dwellers facing evictions and resettlement as counter practices of living heritage.

In this project we aim to:

• Foster multi-disciplinary and collaborative research designed to transform understanding of the causes, impacts and legacies of spatial violence;
• Develop relevant collections of archival, oral, ethnographic and other sources, from policymakers, women’s groups, communities, and local leaders;
• Develop theoretical frameworks and methodological innovations to contribute substantive insights into heritage-making practices as forms of countering violence, informing broader understandings of community-led conflict prevention strategies.

Team

Yangon Stories is a collaborative project betweenÌýDevelopment Planning Unit:ÌýDr. Catalina OrtizÌý- PI;ÌýDr. Giovanna Astolfo;ÌýProf. Camillo Boano; Dr. Elizabeth Rhoads; and local researchers and partner organisations.

Funding: The project is funded by British Academy through its

Main activities

Report launchÌý– March 9 2021

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Kickstart Workshop – February 3-7, 2020

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DPU Fellowships 2020

Chauncie Bigler. Framing the Living Heritage Approach for the Periphery: ÌýConstructing Place, Space, and Community in Yangon, ÌýMyanmar

Naiara Yumiko Murakami Dutra da Costa. Building epistemic designs: decolonial cartography as a tool to subvert forced evictions infrastructure
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DPU Fellowships 2021

Roisin McNamara, ÌýSpatial violence through modes of dispossession: A study of vulnerability and climate change adaptation in YangonÌý

DPU Fellowships 2022

Maki Saso, Contributions of squatter settlements amid expanding enclave urbanism in Hlaing Thayar, Yangon
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Sawa Shiroma, Urban Transformation and Spatial Violence through Capital Accumulation in Yangon
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Higa Akemi, Living Heritage as a narrative shift for liberation: Civic disobedience practices to oppose spatial violence in YangonÌý
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Webinar -ÌýÌý-ÌýJun 10, 2022

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Outputs

Yangon Stories Website -ÌýÌý

(Yangon Stories, 2022).Ìý

Kolovou Kouri, M.Ìý(2022).Ìý. DPU Blog

Roberts, J.L. & E. Rhoads. (2021). .ÌýCritical Asian Studies

Kolovou Kouri, M. & Sakuma, S. (2021). Community-led housing in Yangon: An assessment of the Mae Myit Thar project.Ìý

Kolovou Kouri, M., Sakuma, S., Oritz, C., Astolfo, G & Rhoads, E. (2021). Trajectories of spatial violence in Southeast Asian cities. DPU Working Paper Series (207), London. ISSN: 1474-3280

Rhoads, E., Sakuma, S., Ortiz, C. (2021).ÌýViolations of the Right to Adequate Housing after the Coup.ÌýPolicy Paper.Ìý

Rhoads, E. (2020). Geopolitics.

Astolfo, G. & Boano, C. (2020). Planning Theory & Practice.Ìý

Rhoads, E. (2020). ‘'. in Kyed, H.M. (ed.), ÌýEveryday Justice in Myanmar: Informal Resolutions and State Evasion in a Time of Contested Transition. NIAS Studies in Asian Topics; No. 71. NIAS Press. pp.283-313.

Ortiz, C., & Lipietz, B. (eds.). (2020).Ìý London: University College London.Ìý

Resources

On Yangon urbanism, informal settlements, heritage, housing, spatial violence and history

Anonymous.Ìý(2021). An Initial Report on Forced Evictions of Squatters in Hlaing Tharyar during the Coup.Ìý

Asian Development Bank, ADB. (2019).

Boutry, M. (2017). . in: C. Middleton, R. Elmhirst & S. Chantavanich (eds.), Living with floods in a mobile Southeast Asia. AÌýpolitical ecology of vulnerability, migration and environmental change. pp. 42–62. New York: Routledge.

Campbell, S. (2019), .ÌýAnthropology TodayÌý35, (6), pp. 7–10.

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