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This week’s New Pubs features Edwards on engaged Buddhism and the 1990s moment in anthropology (in Burma); Ahmed rethinking humanitarian diplomacy vis-a-vis the Rohingya crisis; and Muhammad et al on post-colonial resistance and norm contestation in ASEAN’s response to Myanmar’s coup See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and if…
This week’s New Pubs features Saruya on wishing-for-children rituals in Myanmar; Kapur and Ranjan on the military’s disposition to intervene in Myanmar; and Čavoški on the historical relationship between Yugoslavia and Burma (1947-1952). See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and if anyone wants a PDF but is excluded by…
This week’s New Pubs features Houtman, Loedge, and Chayan editing a book on Myanmar ethnographers under fire and studying at-risk communities; Huard and Mya Dar Li Thant on the linkage between plow protests and citizenship; and Bram and Shauli on Israel-Myanmar relations and the Rohingya genocide. See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and…
Hong, Emily. Borderland Solidarity: Indigenous Law, Media, and Environmental Activism in Kachinland. Stanford University Press, 2026. Kachinland is an unrecognized state in the borderlands of Myanmar, India, China, and Thailand. Its geography throws into sharp relief the intersecting dynamics of British colonialism, settler colonialism, and protracted war between the Kachin Independence Army and the Myanmar…
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