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Book Reviews 359 changing legal and political landscape. Everyday Justice in Myanmar foregrounds the perspectives and experiences of local communities in accessing and practising justice, effectively highlighting the diversity of politico-legal orders in Myanmar, a country that recently experienced a decade of semi-democratic change amidst long periods of military rule. Indeed, while patterns of exclusion and repression reminiscent of the military past were still present in Myanmar, the fact that the research for this book could take place at all is remarkable in view of the decades of isolation that previously made this type of ethnographic, collaborative research all but impossible. The current political situation—the most recent iteration of an oppressive junta ruling Myanmar—might render this type of knowledge creation impossible again.

The book has emerged from several months of field research undertaken …