This week’s New Pubs features Buscemi on violence at the margins of the state; Ushiyama on how ASSK created a reputational crisis for herself due to her defense of the Rohingya genocide; and Meehan et al on rare earths in the Chinese/Myanmar borderlands.

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Buscemi, Francesco. “Violence at the margins of the state: concepts, critiques and contributions.” XCEPT Theories of Border Violence Series, 2026.

Ushiyama, Rin. “Towards a cultural sociology of reputational crisis: The Rohingya Genocide and Aung San Suu Kyi’s international reputation.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology (2026).

Meehan, P., Goodhand, J., Peng, X., & Dan, S. L. “Contested Rare Earth Frontiers in the Myanmar–China Borderlands: Extraction, Conflict and Uneven Development.” (SOC ACE Research Paper; No. 48). University of Birmingham, 2026.

^ map from Meehan et al