This week’s New Pubs focuses on the borders, featuring Loong and Siegel on scam centers in Myanmar’s civil war; Myat Htoo Razak and Cynthia Maung with lessons from the border on decolonizing health; and Proserpio on the rebuilding of Myanmar’s universities on the border.
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This week’s New Pubs features Uddin et al editing a book on the politics of denial of the Rohingya genocide; Pan Hsu Pyae Eain and Wells on students in the Myanmar revolution; Kawamoto on mastering abhinna in Hpa-Auk Buddhist Meditation in Myanmar.
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Pan Hsu Pyae Eain and Tamas Wells. “Students and Revolution in Myanmar.” in Fox, Weiss, and Aspinall, eds. Youth Activism in Asia: A New Wave (2026): 84.
This week’s New Pubs features Breen and Soe Htet’s edited volume on federal design in Myanmar; Ma Cheria on labor violations in house-based garment factories in Mae Sot; and Saruya on learning Burmese to learn Buddhims.
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This week’s New Pubs features Ei Thin Zar and Otting on the teaching of civil disobedience through letters from Burma’s Gen Z; Deng on women’s religious labor vis-a-vis marble Buddha image polishing; and Sánchez Molano on ethno-religious boundaries in Myanmar and how people cross them.
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This week’s New Pubs features Medail et al eds of Myanmar Rises: the Spring Revolution; Neil and Saw Day Chit Htoo on reconsidering territoriality in rebel governance; and Ish and Bilay on Pyusawhti militias in central Myanmar.
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This week’s New Pubs features Buchanan on the challenges of moving opium through Shan State; Liljeblad on the prospects for federalism in Myanmar’s current conflict; and McCarthy and Nyana on the role of roadblocks in post-coup Myanmar.
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This week’s New Pubs features Coderey’s new book on the politics and poetics of healing in Buddhist Myanmar; Brown et al asking who speaks on behalf of Rohingya women; and Rahman et al with an edited volume on whether Rohingya repatriation is possible.
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Author Hilary Faxon in conversation with Myat The Thitsar, Naw Pe The Law, Tharaphi Than.
Hilary Faxon is a political ecologist who investigates critical geographies of environment, development and technology. She has worked in Myanmar since 2014 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Environmental Social Science at the University of Montana, where she directs the International Conservation & Development Program.
Myat The Thitsar is an applied researcher working at the intersections of social anthropology, political economy, media, digital politics, and humanitarian governance, with a focus on Myanmar. She holds a Ph.D. in Global Studies and is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Nyan Corridor. Previously, she was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations. Her research has been published in Asian Ethnicity and The International Journal of Press/Politics, with recent work examining resistance, humanitarianism, and infrapolitics in post-coup Myanmar.
Naw Pe The Law is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Social Development Studies (CSDC), Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. She holds a dual PhD in International Development Studies from Chulalongkorn University and the University of Copenhagen. Her doctoral research examined public authority, land governance, and forest governance in conflict-affected areas of Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar. With over 15 years of experience as a development practitioner, she has worked closely with local civil society organizations on indigenous rights, environmental governance, community-led conservation, and natural resource management. Her work bridges academic research and policy engagement, with particular interests in women’s leadership and participation in ethnic governance, locally led conservation, indigenous rights, and sustainable natural resource governance.
Tharaphi Than is an associate professor teaching Burmese language and culture at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Her work spans Burmese literature, media, feminism, and social movements in Myanmar, alongside efforts to expand educational opportunities for students whose academic journeys have been disrupted by conflict, displacement, and conscription. She also works pro bono at Virtual Federal University (VFU).
The Sydney Southeast Asia Centre invites you to a special hybrid seminar exploring the history of the Karen, or Kayin (ကရင်), people of Myanmar and Thailand. Join us on Friday 21 August 2026, from 12:00 to 1:00 pm, zoom link.
Professor Angelene Naw will share insights from her book, The History of the Karen People of Burma, tracing the Karen people’s history from the pre-colonial era to the 21st century through a Karen Christian perspective. The presentation will explore religion, education, nationalism, military conflict and Burma’s political history, as well as the Karen people’s first encounters with Baptist missionaries, including Adoniram Judson.
