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).

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Tin Maung Htwe. “Weapons of the weak in a border zone: How Myanmar’s exiled youth in Mae Sot forge political space and challenge the junta through everyday resistance.” Asian Journal of Social Science 54.2 (2026): 100246.

van Schendel, Willem. “A hole in the British empire: The ‘Free Hills’ between India and Burma.” Modern Asian Studies 59.3 (2025): 589-617.

Rippa, Alessandro. “When is a Frontier? Nostalgia and Aspirations at China’s Borderlands with Burma and Laos.” Comparative Studies in Society and History (2026): 1-25.