Research methods: Listening in six Myanmar cities
Research for this paper was carried out as a part of the Myanmar Media and Society (M.MAS) Research
Project, established as a partnership between St Antony’s College, Oxford University, and the Myanmar
ICT for Development Organization (MIDO). Launched in January 2015, the M.MAS project has
consisted of two interrelated components: First, trainings in qualitative research skills18 and comparative
scholarship on collective violence in other times and places19 for activists20 in six cities: four cities that