This week’s New Pubs features Houtman, Loedge, and Chayan editing a book on Myanmar ethnographers under fire and studying at-risk communities; Huard and Mya Dar Li Thant on the linkage between plow protests and citizenship; and Bram and Shauli on Israel-Myanmar relations and the Rohingya genocide.

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Houtman, Gustaaf, Elliot Lodge, and Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, eds. Ethnography Thrice Under Fire: Myanmar’s At-Risk Researchers of At-Risk Communities in At-Risk Environments. RCSD, Chiang Mai University, 2025.

Huard, Stéphen and Mya Dar Li Thant. “Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma.” Journal of Agrarian Change, 2025.

Bram, Chen, and Ran Shauli. “Israel-Myanmar Relations and the Rohingya Mass Killings.” Israel-Asia Relations in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge, 2023. 201-215.

Hong, Emily. Borderland Solidarity: Indigenous Law, Media, and Environmental Activism in Kachinland. Stanford University Press, 2026.

Kachinland is an unrecognized state in the borderlands of Myanmar, India, China, and Thailand. Its geography throws into sharp relief the intersecting dynamics of British colonialism, settler colonialism, and protracted war between the Kachin Independence Army and the Myanmar Army. Kachinland’s rich natural resources—including jade and hydropower—are coveted by the junta-led Myanmar government and its energy hungry neighbor, China. As resource extraction and land confiscation intensifies, Kachin activists and artists turn to Indigenous law and media to stem the tide of displacement and dispossession. Emily Hong follows a diverse cast of Kachin activists, punk rock musicians, women farmers, and armed group leaders dreaming up new futures for Kachinland. She examines how they draw on the infrastructures of the borderlands—cross-border media tactics, inter-ethnic solidarity, and an expanded sense of the law and political possibility—to sustain activism for the long-haul. With critical awareness of the colonial legacies of the region and of anthropology itself, Hong uncovers the limitations and liberatory potential of borderland solidarity, offering a powerful lens for understanding global activism and for navigating collaborative ethnography. Through evocative storytelling and sensory ethnography, Hong’s book challenges readers to move beyond a Western lens on solidarity to ask what activists, artists, and anthropologists alike can learn from centering non-Western ways of theorizing and embodying political sensation and collective action.

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This week’s New Pubs features Bowser comparing ethnonationalism within Burma’s Myo-Chit party and Malaya’s UMNO; Bünte and Bustos on Myanmar’s experience with sanctions over the years; and Zakaria on Rohingya in Malaysia’s Kelantan.

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Bowser, Matthew. “Reasonable Parties: Empire and Ethnonationalism in Burma and Malaya, 1945–1948.” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (2025): 1-37.

Bünte, Marco, and Loren Bustos. “Myanmar.” in the Elgar Encyclopedia of International Sanctions. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025: 139-141.

Zakaria, Hairunnisa. “Rohingya Community in Kelantan: National Security Concern and Local Perception.” International Journal of Law, Government and Communication, 10 (42), 2025, pp 16-26.

Galon U Saw, head of Myo Chit party, after Aung San’s assassination

This week’s New Pubs features Chang’s book on Cold War-era Chinese migrants in the Sino-Burmese borderlands; Peng on Chinese aid to the CPB, 1969-1989; and Green on the concept of “state crime” and how it applies to Myanmar vis-a-vis the Rohingya.

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Chang, Wen-Chin. Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands: Untold Stories of Overland Chinese Migrants During the Cold War. Harvard University Press, 2025.

Peng, Xu. “The Politics of Persistence: China’s Border Government and Aid to the Communist Party of Burma, 1969–1989.” Asian Studies Review (2025): 1-21.

Green, Penny. “State Crime, Social Harm and Genocide.” Crime, Harm and the State. Bristol University Press, 2025. 234-253.

This week’s New Pubs features Saeed on the Rohingya community in Pakistan; Parvez on the contradictions within the discourse about Rohingya repatriation; and Morshed comparing legal violence in Myanmar, Bangladesh, and India.

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Saeed, Riaz Ahmad. “Transnational Islam in Paki̇stan: A Case Study of Rohingya Muslims.” in Koroglu and Brodard, eds. Transnational Islam and Muslim Politics: Policies, Identities, and Ideologies, Istanbul University Press, 2024.

Parvez, Mahfuz. “Between diplomacy and displacement: the contradictions of the Rohingya repatriation discourse.” New Delhi: Observer Research Foundation, 2025.

Morshed, Md Tarik. “Legal Violence in Postcolonial South Asia: Typologies of Exclusion and the Politics of Citizenship Law.” Journal of Law and Politics (JLP) 6.2 (2025): 65-79.

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This week’s New Pubs features Tin Maung Htwe on Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand vis-a-vis justice paradigms; Mazumdar on rethinking digital humanitarianism in Rohingya refugee camps; and Mineta on care and territoriality within border governance in Kachin.

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Tin Maung Htwe. “The Common Good Toward the Crucial Role of Myanmar Migrant Workers in Thailand Through the Prisms of Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice.” Political Theory, History, and Modern Practice for the Common Good. IGI Global Scientific Publishing, 2026. 299-328.

Mazumdar, Suruchi. “Rethinking digital humanitarianism in rohingya refugee camps.” Transnational Legal Theory (2025): 1-24.

Mineta, Shiro. “Influence of Regime of Care and Territoriality on Border Governance in Kachin, Myanmar.” in Mitsuru Yamada and Kazumi Abe, eds Peacebuilding in Southeast Asia, Springer 2025.

This week’s New Pubs features Sai Sam Kham on the specular commodity and land rush in Myanmar; Zaman et al with yet another Springer edited volume on the Rohingya crisis; and Ryan on art as intervention in Kachin state environmentalism.

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Sai Sam Kham. “The spectacular commodity and land rush in Myanmar: its extent and consequences.” Globalizations (2025): 1-20.

Zaman, Mohammed, Robert Anderson, Kawser Ahmed, eds. Rohingya Stories: History and Geopolitics in a Multipolar World. Springer, 2025.

Ryan, John Charles. “Art as intervention: Environmental creativity in Kachin State, Myanmar.” Melbourne Asia Review 2025.24 (2025). [link is currently not working: https://www.melbourneasiareview.edu.au/art-as-intervention-environmental-creativity-in-kachin-state-myanmar/?print=pdf]

This week’s New Pubs features an edited volume by Uddin on the Rohingya disapora in SAARC and ASEAN countries; Rhoads et al on civil documentation as a modality of ‘bordering’; and Ahmed et al on how Bangladesh’s militarized camp landscape impacts Rohingya refugees.

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Uddin, Nasir, ed. Scattered Lives of ‘Stateless’ People The Rohingyas in SAARC & ASEAN Countries. Springer, 2025.

Rhoads, Elizabeth, et al. “Modalities of Bureaucratic Violence: Bordering via Civil Documentation in Myanmar.” Journal of Borderlands Studies (2025): 1-23.

Ahmed, Saleh, Thomas Campbell, and Kendra Duran. “Socio-ecological disruptions in a militarized landscape: the unfolding nature of the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh.” Space and Polity (2025): 1-19.

This week’s New Pubs features a two-part article by Kiik on the village-based dimensions of the Myitsone anti-dam movement; Sheikh and Morris on Rohingya narratives on their heritage rather than their victimhood; and Zahed with testimonials on why Rohingya have fled violent displacement.

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Kiik, Laur. “Rural resistance under a golden dictatorship” International Journal of Asian Studies (2025): part 1, the Myitsone villages and part 2, the suspended villages.

Sheikh, Saqib and Carolyn Morris. “Rohingya Narratives Beyond Victimhood: Responses to Reporting on Heritage Destruction,” in Bijan Rouhani, Bill Finlayson and Timothy Clack, eds. Reporting Heritage Destruction, Archaeopress, 2025, pp 89-97. 

Zahed, IU Md. “Why did the Rohingya Flee? Experiences of Violent Displacement” Asian Affairs (2025).

from Kiik, part 1