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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…
This week’s New Pubs features Bowser comparing ethnonationalism within Burma’s Myo-Chit party and Malaya’s UMNO; Bünte and Bustos on Myanmar’s experience with sanctions over the years; and Zakaria on Rohingya in Malaysia’s Kelantan. 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 Chang’s book on Cold War-era Chinese migrants in the Sino-Burmese borderlands; Peng on Chinese aid to the CPB, 1969-1989; and Green on the concept of “state crime” and how it applies to Myanmar vis-a-vis the Rohingya. See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and if…
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