Mireille Mazard
Mireille Mazard
- Assistant Professor
- PhD, University of Cambridge
Research Interests
- China, Southeast Asia, ethnopolitics, post/colonialism, memory and imagination, governance, vegetarianism, violence.
- Office: 306.6
- Email: mireille.mazard@uregina.ca
Mireille (Miro) Mazard's research explores memory, ritual, and
governance at the crossroads of China and Southeast Asia. She has
carried out long-term fieldwork on China's frontier with Myanmar,
among Nusu communities, studying indigenous ethnohistory and
experiences of Chinese socialism.
Her current research interests include (in Yunnan) agriculture in
times of environmental crisis, the restructuring of rural education,
and the local life of government policy; (in Southeast Asia)
vegetarianism and violence in Buddhist movements.
Mireille was the founding director of Cambridge's Interdisciplinary
China Studies Forum, a graduate group promoting exchange and
communication across academic disciplines. She has co-organized
several international workshops for research on contemporary China,
most recently "The Entangled Ethnographer: Fortuitous Blunders and
Other Unexpected Outcomes of Participant Observation", held at
Cambridge's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and
Humanities in June 2010.
