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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…
This week’s New Pubs features You and Li on BRI-related Chinese migration in Myanmar; Akhter-Khan et al theorizing the exiled Burmese activist; and Naw Pe The Law et al on the Karen Women’s Organization. See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and if anyone wants a PDF but is excluded…
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…
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