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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…
This week’s New Pubs features Tin Maung Htwe on how exiled youth in Mae Sot forge political space and challenge the junta; van Schendel on the ‘free hills’ between India and Burma during the British colonial period; and Rippa on China’s borderlands with Burma (and Laos). See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and…
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