Aurore CANDIER

Adjunct researcher

Aurore is a historian and associate researcher at the CNRS (Case, Paris and IRASEC, Bangkok). She has lived, worked and researched in Burma for more than 20 years. Her scholarly interests encompass intellectual, political and cultural history. She studies changes of ideas and knowledge in Burma in the longue durée and attempts to measure the impact of astrology on Burmese society throughout history.

Selected publications (in English)

Books chapters

• 2005 “Pragmatic Neutrality in a Rival Sphere of Influence : French Roman Catholic Missionaries in Mindon Min’s Court,” in Myanmar Historical Commission Conference Proceedings, part I, Yangon, University Historical Research Center, pp. 167-180.
• 2004 “Cooperation in a Rival Sphere of Influence : French Roman Catholic Missionaries in Myanmar 1856-1918,” in Essays in the Commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of the Myanmar Historical Commission, Yangon, University Historical Research Center, pp. 328-357.
• 2004 “Imagination and Knowledge : some Comments on Rumours in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Konbaung Court,” in Proceedings of the Conference Traditions of Knowledge in Southeast Asia, part. I, Yangon, University Historical Research Center, pp. 165-191.
• 2003 “France through Myanmar Eyes : some Remarks on Kinwun Mingyi’s Paris Diary,” in Proceedings of the Conference Texts and Contexts in Southeast Asia, part. III, Yangon, University Historical Research Center, pp. 121-131.

Peer-reviewed articles

• 2019 “Mapping Ethnicity in Nineteenth Century Burma : When “ Categories of People ” (Lumyo) Became ‘Nations’,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 50 (3), pp. 347-364.
• 2011 “Conjuncture and Reform in the Late Konbaung Period : How Prophecies, Omens and Rumors Motivated Political Action from 1866 to 1869,” The Journal of Burma Studies, 15 (3), pp. 231-262.
• 2007 “A Norm of Burmese Kingship ? The Concept of Raza-dhamma through Five Konbaung Period Texts,” The Journal of Burma Studies, 11, pp. 5-48.