This week’s New Pubs features Aung Naing’s edited volume Assemblages of Myanmar; Loong on foreign aid, civil society, and post-colonial state-building; and (only because our queue is empty and we only had two texts this week!) Prasse-Freeman on how laborer debility can spur dispossession in peri-urban Yangon.

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 us and we will help if we can. And please send in your texts so we can feature them.

Aung Naing, ed. Assemblages of Myanmar: How Realities are Made Up. Chiang Mai: RCSD, 2026

Loong, Shona. “Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld.” Development and Change (2026).

Prasse-Freeman, Elliott. “Displacement, two ways: Necroeconomic navigations in the peri-urban global southeast,” in Displacement Urbanism, Giovanna Astolfo and Camillo Boano, eds. Bristol University Press, 2026, pp 55-71.

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Time: Feb 3 from 1pm to 2pm GMT+8

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UNSW Law & Justice invite you to the launch of The Palimpsest Constitution: The Social Life of Constitutions in Myanmar by Melissa Crouch.

This hybrid launch will take place online and in-person at the UNSW Law & Justice Building (Level 2 Adrian Cameron Room).

February 2026 marks five years since the military coup in Myanmar. In order to commemorate this date, we will launch the book, The Palimpsest Constitution: The Social Life of Constitutions in Myanmar. This event is not a celebration but rather a reflection on aspirations for constitutional reform amidst military rule and war in Myanmar. The case of Myanmar is an example of the kinds of tragedies that are part of the social life of constitutions, mirroring key themes in the book.

The panel will be chaired by Professor Bronwen Morgan and will feature author Professor Melissa Crouch, along with comparative and interdisciplinary reflections on the book by Professor Malini Sur (WSU) and Dr Visakesa Chandrasekaram.

This week’s New Pubs features Passeri on Myanmar’s post-coup foreign policy; Loong on the ethics and benefits of volunteering while researching (in Burma); Rahman and Sameen on how refugee camp education is reshaping Rohingya gender norms.

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Passeri, Andrea. Myanmar’s Post-Coup Foreign Policy: Weathering Isolation and Sanctions. Taylor Francis, 2026

Loong, Shona. “Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence: Reflections on Listening, Solidarity, and Decoloniality in Myanmar’s Borderlands.” Asia Pacific Viewpoint (2025).

Rahman, Shukufe, and Shafinaz Sameen. “Redefining Gender Norms and Building Resilience: The Role of Education for Young Rohingya Women in Refugee Camps in Bangladesh.” Globalisation and Education for Refugee and Displaced Children: Education and Policy Reforms in Non-Western Contexts. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2026. 65-79.

This week’s New Pubs features Ma Khin Mar Mar Kyi’s book on women fighting dictatorship in Burma; Chiu on speculative urban governance in war-torn Myanmar; and Li and Su on China-sponsored infrastructure construction in Myanmar (and Laos).

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Ma Khin Mar Mar Kyi. Invisible Yet Invincible: Narratives of Women Fighting Dictatorship in Burma/Myanmar. Thanakha Tekkatho Gender Studies Publication Series, RCSD, 2025.

Chiu, Francesca. “‘Don’t cause trouble’: speculative governance, ward administration and fragmented sovereignty in urban Myanmar.” Third World Quarterly, 2025.

Li, Cansong, and Xiaobo Su. “Regional development and the politics of China-sponsored infrastructure construction in Laos and Myanmar.” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space (2025).

Find the new Journal of Burma Studies (29.2) issue here, with the following articles:

• Palmiano Federer, Julia, Aye Myat Su Wai, Laura O’Connor, Mariana Savka. “Special Issue Introduction: Rebuilding Prospects for ‘Peace’: Gender, Civil Society, and Informal Spaces in Post-Coup Myanmar.” Pp 205-227 https://doi.org/10.1353/jbs.2025.a979882
• Loong, Shona, Lotty (Charlotte) Clare, Sunita (Naw Moo). “Tending to Territories of Life: Indigeneity, Gender, and Peacebuilding in the Salween Peace Park.” pp. 229-275 https://doi.org/10.1353/jbs.2025.a979883
• Tin Maung Htwe. “Feminist and Marxist Perspectives on Women’s Labor Leadership in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution” pp. 277-318 https://doi.org/10.1353/jbs.2025.a979884
• Haines, Rebecca. “Women’s Principled Tactical Pluralism: Understanding the Cases of Sisters2Sisters and the Spouses of People’s Soldiers.” pp. 319-368 https://doi.org/10.1353/jbs.2025.a979885
• Nhep, Rebecca. “Clientelism in Myanmar Residential Care Facilities.” Pp 369-413 https://doi.org/10.1353/jbs.2025.a979886

This week’s New Pubs features Myo Naing and Zou with an entire book on 2023’s Operation 1027; Saha on elephant capital at the end of empire in Myanmar; and Chakhesang on sacred spaces amidst conflict in southeast Myanmar (and northeastern India).

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Myo Naing and Yizheng Zou. Operation 1027: A Turning Point in Myanmar’s Conflict Landscape. Springer, 2025.

Saha, Jonathan. “Decolonizing Elephants: Animal Capital at the End of Empire in Myanmar.” Humanimalia 16.1 (2025): 127-161.

Chakhesang, Kushelu. “Sacred Spaces in Conflicts: Faith Based Organizations and the Peacebuilding Landscape in Northeast India and Southeast Myanmar.” Conflict and Peace Studies Journal (2025): 73-97.

This week’s New Pubs features Edwards on engaged Buddhism and the 1990s moment in anthropology (in Burma); Ahmed rethinking humanitarian diplomacy vis-a-vis the Rohingya crisis; and Muhammad et al on post-colonial resistance and norm contestation in ASEAN’s response to Myanmar’s coup

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 us and we will help if we can.

Edwards, Michael. “Wheels Turning: Anthropological Solidarity, Engaged Buddhism, and a Return to the 1990s.” American Anthropologist (2025).

Ahmed, Kawser. “Rethinking Humanitarian Diplomacy for Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis Resolution: A Critical Analysis.” Journal of Peacebuilding & Development (2025).

Muhammad, Andra Khagum, Jusmalia Oktaviani, and Anggun Dwi Panorama. “Beyond Wavering: Post-Colonial Resistance and Norm Contestation in ASEAN’s Response to Myanmar’s Coup.” Nation State: Journal of International Studies 8.2 (2025): 102-123.

from Edwards (2025, p 5).

This week’s New Pubs features Saruya on wishing-for-children rituals in Myanmar; Kapur and Ranjan on the military’s disposition to intervene in Myanmar; and Čavoški on the historical relationship between Yugoslavia and Burma (1947-1952).

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Saruya, Rachelle. “Wishing at the Banyan Tree: Wishing-for-children Rituals in the Buddhist Scriptures and in Contemporary Practices in Myanmar and Beyond.” Journal of Global Buddhism 26.1 (2025): 98–119

Kapur, Roshni, and Amit Ranjan. “The Military’s Disposition to Intervene in Myanmar: Sustenance and Newfound Challenges.” Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs 47.3 (2025): 465-490.

Čavoški, J. “An Unexpected Partner from Afar: Setting the Historical Foundations of the Yugoslav–Burmese Relationship (1947–1952).” Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 95. Suppl 4 (2025): S471-S481.

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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