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Does Myanmar’s Potemkin poll change anything? Date: 17 February 2026Time zone: 5.30-6.30pm AEDT, 1-2pm MMT, 7.30-8.30am CET Venue: register for online here Description The third and final phase of Myanmar’s tightly controlled election concluded in late January, confirming the unsurprising dominance of the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) in a poll without credible political challengers. Held in…
This week’s New Pubs features Chambers on women’s care work and political placemaking on the Myanmar/Thai border; Bowser on the political economic foundations of the colonial-era conflict between Rohingya and Rakhine; and Mandelkorn on the political-ecological foundations of the Saya San rebellion. See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and…
This week’s New Pubs features Simpson et al on understanding Myanmar environmental activism through assemblage thinking; Steinmüller on the lack of egalitarianism in the Wa hills; and Egreteau on hunger strikes in late colonial Burma. See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and if anyone wants a PDF but is…
This week’s New Pubs features Aung Naing’s edited volume Assemblages of Myanmar; Loong on foreign aid, civil society, and post-colonial state-building; and (only because our queue is empty and we only had two texts this week!) Prasse-Freeman on how laborer debility can spur dispossession in peri-urban Yangon. See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations…
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