

Postdoctoral fellow
Social Antropology
Main research areas
- Myanmar
- Prisons in the global south
- Experiences of imprisonment
- Social resilience
- Liminal experiences
Current research
Liv Gaborit’s current research is concerned with expressions of social resilience in Myanmar. During Myanmar’s tumultuous history the people of Myanmar have repeatedly faced various forms of hardships. The project sets out to describe how Myanmar prisoners and activist find strength through social resilience and critically reflect upon and develop the concept of social resilience as to better grasp contexts of continued adversities.
Liv Gaborit works through a multidisciplinary approach. She holds a Masters degree in Psychology from Copenhagen University, a Ph.D. in Social Sciences and has extensive experience with the use of ethnographic methods and participatory action research. Her research is focused on prisons in the global south and covers topics such as experiences of imprisonment, prisons as a lens through which to understand societal changes and prison reform.
Publications
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Myanmar coup one year on: military junta threatens first executions in decades
Liv Gaborit
(2022) The Conversation
Journal articleHvis Danmark vil hjælpe Myanmars befolkning, må regeringen være kreativ
Liv Gaborit
(2021) Politiken
Newspaper articleI Myanmar fængsles endnu en generation af politiske fanger
Liv Gaborit
(2021) POV International
Newspaper articleDancing with the Junta Again - Mistreatment of Women Activists by the Tatmadaw Following the Military Coup in Myanmar
Anonymous Myanmar Researcher, Liv Gaborit
(2021) Anthropology in Action, 28 p.51-56
Journal article“Beyond the Prison Gate”: Exploring Recognition through Photography with Former Political Prisoners in Myanmar
Liv Gaborit
(2021) VIsual Anthropology, 34 p.3-20
Journal article'We are Like Water in Their Hands' - experiences of imprisonment in Myanmar
Liv Gaborit
(2020)
DissertationVisited by spirits – ‘Betwixt and between’ in meditation and solitary confinement in Myanmar
Liv Gaborit
(2020) Incarceration, 1
Journal articleLooking through the Prison Gate: access in the field of ethnography
Liv Gaborit
(2019) Cadernos Pagu
Journal articleHuman Rights in Prisons : Comparing Institutional Encounters in Kosovo, Sierra Leone and the Philippines
Andrew Jefferson, Liv Gaborit
(2015)
BookMÆRKET AF FÆNGSLET – FØLELSERS ROLLE I ETNOGRAFISK FÆNGSELSFORSKNING
Liv Gaborit, Andrew Jefferson
(2015) Psyke & Logos, 36 p.153-173
Journal article
Expert areas for the media
- Myanmar (formerly Burma), Southeast Asia
- Prisons
- Prisons in the global south