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Books

Roberts JL, 2016, Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and nation among the Sino-Burmese

Book Chapters

Roberts J, 2020, 'Heritage Conservation as Trickle-Down Development', in Peycam P; Wang S-L; Hui Y-F; Hsiao H-HM (ed.), Heritage as Aid and Diplomacy in Asia, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, pp. 305 - 328

Huang S; Roberts JL, 2019, 'Place‐Making', in , Wiley, pp. 1 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118568446.eurs0475

Roberts JL, 2018, 'In search of Urban identities in Myanmar', in Routledge Handbook of Urbanization in Southeast Asia, pp. 400 - 410, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315562889

Roberts JL, 2017, 'Urban', in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar, pp. 64 - 71

Roberts J, 2017, 'Heritage-making and post-coloniality in Yangon, Myanmar', in Citizens, Civil Society and Heritage-Making in Asia, Flipside Digital Content Company Inc., Singapore, pp. 40 - 60

Roberts J, 2017, 'Tradition as an Imposed and Elite Inheritance: Yangon's Modern Past', in Whose Tradition?, Routledge, New York, pp. 41 - 61

Roberts JL, 2013, 'The Sin Oh Dan street lion dance competition: A temporary space for cross-cultural understanding', in Transcultural Cities: Border-Crossing and Placemaking, pp. 62 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203075777

Journal articles

Roberts JL; Girke F, 2024, 'Heritage as boundary object: the troubling potential of the Secretariat in Yangon, Myanmar', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 30, pp. 365 - 381, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2024.2303127

Roberts JL, 2022, 'The secular/religious construction of neighbourhoods in Mandalay, Myanmar: Dhamma-youns and wards', Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 63, pp. 337 - 349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apv.12353

Roberts JL, 2022, 'The Shop on High Street: At Home with Petite Capitalism.', SOJOURN-JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, 37, pp. 547 - 550, http://dx.doi.org/10.1355/sj37-3j

Roberts JL; Rhoads EL, 2022, 'Myanmar’s hidden-in-plain-sight social infrastructure: nalehmu through multiple ruptures', Critical Asian Studies, 54, pp. 1 - 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2021.2002703

Roberts JL, 2020, 'Southeast Asia’s Modern Architecture: Questions of Translation, Epistemology and Power', Fabrications, 30, pp. 430 - 432, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10331867.2020.1834991

Roberts JL, 2020, 'Displacement, Encroachment and Settlement: Interrogating Kyu in Peri-Urban Yangon', City and Society, 32, pp. 421 - 435, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12293

Roberts JL, 2019, 'Everyday economic survival in Myanmar', CRITICAL ASIAN STUDIES, 51, pp. 637 - 638, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2019.1672270

Roberts JL, 2019, 'Carol Ann Boshier. Mapping Cultural Nationalism: The Scholars of the Burma Research Society, 1910–1935.', The American Historical Review, 124, pp. 228 - 229, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhy516

Conference Papers

Ishar SI; Zlatanova S; Roberts JL, 2022, '3D GAMING FOR YOUNG GENERATIONS IN HERITAGE PROTECTION: A REVIEW', in International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives, pp. 53 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-4-W4-2022-53-2022


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