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News-in-Views Bulletin 13/26
This NIV Bulletin 13 examines a growing pattern in The Global New Light of Myanmar i.e. legibility as authority. Across census data, digital meters, passport rules, surrender programmes, displaced-person verification and diplomatic activity, the state is repeatedly presented as the actor that counts, registers, classifies and decides who belongs inside recognized systems.
The issue asks a simple but political question: when the state defines both the categories and the evidence, who can challenge the classification?
From “verified displaced persons” to “returnees” entering the “legal fold,” Bulletin 13 explores how ordinary administrative language can help normalize contested authority, and why administrative compliance should not be mistaken for political consent.
The junta is not really practicing technocracy in the strict sense. It is using technocratic aesthetics such as data, laws, schedules, infrastructure, digital systems, census language, economic regulation, and “public service” language to make coercive rule appear like competent administration.
The junta does not use technocracy to solve politics.
It uses technocracy to avoid politics.
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