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This week’s New Pubs features Deakin University’s four reports on Rohingya life in the camps, with one focusing on recruitment into militant organizations; Zhao on the shrinking porosity of the China/Myanmar border; and Nyi Nyi Kyaw and Sirada on student migration from Myanmar to Thailand after the coup. See our Recent Publications page for all of the…
Wittekind, Courtney. City of Speculation: Unsettled Futures in Urban Myanmar. Stanford University Press, 2026. and see here for all of the books that don’t exist yet In 2018, amidst a celebrated political transition, Myanmar’s first democratically elected government since 1962 proposed a built-from-scratch “new city” just outside Yangon, the country’s former colonial capital and current…
This week’s New Pubs features Schissler with a deep dive into Myanmar’s notorious 135; Edwards on temporality, Myanmar, and Gaza; and Peng on China’s selective influence in Myanmar’s conflicts; See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and if anyone wants a PDF but is excluded by pay wall, please email…
This week’s New Pubs features joints on gender: Pe The Law, Mortensen, and Middleton on the authority of the Karen Women’s Organization; Matelski with testimonies of “Women Peace Ambassadors” in Shan State; and Etzold et al on the transnational dynamics of gendered violence in the Banladesh/Myanmar borderlands. See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations…
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