Monique Maree Skidmore (born 11 May 1968) is an Australian medical and political anthropologist of Myanmar.
[4] Skidmore's work revealed the depths of fear, repression and self-censorship Burmese people suffered under successive Burmese military regimes[5] and meticulously documents the many survival strategies used to remain hopeful for the future when terror and fear threaten to overwhelm the population.
[6] Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear[7] was published by University of Pennsylvania Press (a shorter article appeared in American Ethnologist[8]), a book-length expose of living under a repression of fear in contemporary Myanmar.
Skidmore's work in Burma covered diverse cultural, medical, political, and religious aspects of everyday life at a time when the world was largely excluded from entering Myanmar and when foreigners were heavily restricted in their interactions with Burmese people and places.
Much of this work centred on the cultural beliefs and practices as well as structural inequalities and state repression that impact the psychological and psychiatric health of women and children.