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Faxon, Hilary. Surviving the State: Struggles for Land and Democracy in Myanmar, Duke University Press, 2026. decription: In Myanmar’s Kalay Valley, a rice-growing region near the Indian border, farmers have long been subject to violence and neglect. Surviving the State considers how these farmers’ everyday, land-based practices enable them to endure successive authoritarian regimes. Through robust ethnography,…
This week’s New Pubs features Metro on the politics of acknowledgements in Burma Studies and Tsai on Kachin ethnic education in northern Shan state. Note there are only two this week, so send us your publications! See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and if anyone wants a PDF but…
This week’s New Pubs features Houtman examining “do ayei” from chant to compact; Kim and Potter on Japan and Korea’s responses to Myanmar’s autocratization; and Lwin Cho Latt and Thidar Kyaw providing a Myanmar perspective on China/Indian machinations in the Indo-Pacific. See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and if…
This week’s New Pubs features Lee and Zarandona on war, genocide, and heritage in Myanmar; K Yhome on Myanmar as an in-between space, in many ways; and Naung Naung on the use of transnational repression and the creation of new state spaces withing ASEAN. See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past…
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