This week’s New Pubs features Aung on how the destruction of Palestine is connected to the destruction of Myanmar; Thawnghmung et al on how Burmese people access and identify trustworthy information after the coup; and Roberts reflecting on ‘do no harm’ ethics in conflict zones.

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Aung, Geoffrey Rathgeb. “The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of Myanmar.” Verso Blog

Thawnghmung, Ardeth Maung, et al. “Can Pandora’s Box Be Closed? How People in Myanmar Access and Identify Trustworthy Information After the Coup.” International Journal of Communication 20 (2026): 1472-1491.

Roberts, Kimberly. “Research Ethics in Conflict Zones: Reflections on ‘Do no Harm’ Ethics for the Research Network.” Asia Pacific Viewpoint (2026).

This week’s New Pubs features Mausert on ASSK’s complicity in genocide; Stout’s book on anarchists in Myanmar (and Spain and Rojava); and Lall and Okamoto’s book on students and higher education in the revolution.

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Mausert, Kirt. “The Office She Asked For Aung San Suu Kyi and the Structural Form of Civilian Complicity.” Yangon Informer. 27-May-2026

Stout, James. Against the State Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava. AK Press, 2026.

Lall, Marie, and Ikuko Okamoto. Myanmar’s Spring Revolution: Students, higher education and political change. UCL Press, 2026.

This week’s New Pubs features Khaing Phyu Htut et al on education aid coordination in post-coup Myanmar; Sophia Htwe on Rakhine’s changing political order and the future of Rohingya citizenship; and Kyed et al on climate change as an arena of wartime political struggles.

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Khaing Phyu Htut, Halász Gábor, and Christopher Lawson. “Education Aid Coordination in Post‐Coup Myanmar.” Public Administration and Development (2026).

Sophia Htwe. “Rakhine’s Changing Political Order and the Future of Rohingya Citizenship.” ANU Myanmar Research Center, 2026.

Kyed, Helene Maria, et al. “Climate change as an arena of wartime political struggles: Greening of military rule and resistance in Myanmar.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2026.

This week’s New Pubs features Shimray and Ziipao on cattle herding from Kabaw valley to the Indian Naga Hills; Hnin Win Aung on the NUG’s military justice mechanism [Burmese]; and Tin Maung Htwe on cancel culture, reactive attitudes, and democratic deliberation in Myanmar after the coup.

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Shimray, Ramachan, and Raile Ziipao. “Ethnography of Buffaloes: Herding Cattle from Kabaw Valley (Myanmar) to Naga Hills (India).” Journal of Borderlands Studies (2026): 1-19.

Hnin Win Aung. “An Analysis of the Military Justice Mechanism of the National Unity Government: Focus on Procedural Dynamics, Forensic Challenges and Judicial Accountability.” ANU Myanmar Research Center, Working Paper 1/2026. [Burmese]

Tin Maung Htwe. “Moralizing politics in the digital age: cancel culture, reactive attitudes, and democratic deliberation in Myanmar after the 2021 coup.” Contemporary Politics, 2026.

This week’s New Pubs features Liljeblad and Hsu Myat Noe Htet on the status of indigenous rights movements in Myanmar’s current conflict; Pum Khan Pau on how tranborder communities in the India-Burma borderland went from tribes to borderlanders; and Long on biographical writing and vernacular religious ethics in 20th century Myanmar.

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Liljeblad, Jonathan, and Hsu Myat Noe Htet. “The status of Indigenous rights movements in Myanmar’s current conflict.” Australian Journal of Asian Law 27.2 (2026): 61-82.

Pau, Pum Khan. “From Frontier Tribes to Borderlanders: The Making of Transborder Communities in the India–Burma Borderland.” in Gorky Chakraborty and Pum Khan Pau, eds India’s East and North East. Sringer, 2026: pp 197-218.

Long, M.K. “Rebirth and Perfection in Ordinary Lives: Biographical Writing and Vernacular Religious Ethics in Twentieth-Century Myanmar.” Journal of Religious Ethics. 2026.

This week’s New Pubs features McCarthy and Kyle Nyana on roadblocks in post-coup Myanmar; Proserpio et al on ASEAN universities as safe spaces for Burmese students after the coup; and Flynn on arsenic contamination of the Salween from rare earth minds.

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McCarthy, Gerard and Kyle Nyana. “Roadblocks, Relationality and Resilient Resistance in Post-coup Myanmar.” Development and Change, 2026.

Proserpio, Licia, Brad Blitz, and Marie Lall. “Safe spaces not sanctuaries: ASEAN universities and the politics of displacement after Myanmar’s military coup.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2026): 1-17.

Flynn, Gerard. “Asia’s longest free-flowing river contaminated by arsenic linked to Myanmar mines.” Mongabay. 20-Apr-2026

source: photo from Flynn (2026)

This week’s New Pubs features May Aye Thiri and Martinez-Alier on resistance to extractivism in Myanmar; Loong on decolonizing civil war; and Hsu Myat Yadanar Thein and Walton on the political developments alongside Myanmar’s military stalemate.

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May Aye Thiri and Joan Martinez-Alier. “Extractivism unleashed: Environmental justice and resistance in Myanmar.” The Extractive Industries and Society 27 (2026): 101927.

Loong, Shona. “Decolonising Civil War: Warscapes as Relational Conjunctures in Post-Coup Myanmar.” Geopolitics, 2026.

Hsu Myat Yadanar Thein and Matthew Walton. “Myanmar in 2024 and 2025: Military Stalemate Alongside Political Development.” Asian Survey 66.2 (2026): 351-363.

This week’s New Pubs features Li and Moh Moh Thet on Myanmar’s anti-military rhetoric on the internet; Lu and Zhang on the conflict management roles of China and Russia in Myanmar; and Kakati (and anonymous) on the Zeme olympics in the Naga hills.

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Li, Yao-Tai, and Moh Moh Thet. “Angry Posts: Myanmar’s Anti-Military Rhetoric on the Internet.” International Journal of Communication 20 (2026): 24-24.

Lu, Xiaoyu, and Yixun Zhang. “What post-liberal peaces look like: China, Russia and fragmented conflict management in Myanmar.” Globalizations (2026): 1-17.

Kakati, Aditya Kiran, and Anon. “Zeme Olympics and the historical pathways of Naga sovereignty in checkered borderlands.” Territory, Politics, Governance (2026): 1-20.

This week’s New Pubs features Deakin University’s four reports on Rohingya life in the camps, with one focusing on recruitment into militant organizations; Zhao on the shrinking porosity of the China/Myanmar border; and Nyi Nyi Kyaw and Sirada on student migration from Myanmar to Thailand after the coup.

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“Everyday Peace and Rohingya Refugees” project, Plan International and Deakin University collaboration

Zhao, Niu. “’The Border Turns Very Dry’: Shrinking Porosity and Local Responses on the China–Myanmar Border.” Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2026.

Nyi Nyi Kyaw and Sirada Khemanitthathai. “Student Migration from Myanmar to Thailand after the 2021 Coup.” Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung and The Nelson Mandela Centre, Chulalongkorn University, 2026.

Wittekind, Courtney. City of Speculation: Unsettled Futures in Urban Myanmar. Stanford University Press, 2026.

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In 2018, amidst a celebrated political transition, Myanmar’s first democratically elected government since 1962 proposed a built-from-scratch “new city” just outside Yangon, the country’s former colonial capital and current economic center. 20,000 acres of once-barren rice fields became the site of extraordinary developmental dreams. Farmers on Yangon’s outskirts traded cultivation for speculation on land and property, betting on uncertain futures and weighing what, exactly, was worth risking for a chance at transformation. As plans for the new city stalled amid political turmoil, economic liberalization, a pandemic, and a military coup, speculation became both a source of hope and a means of survival when urban dreams faded. Drawing on three years of site-based fieldwork and digital ethnography, Courtney T. Wittekind shows how speculation reshapes citizens’ contemporary demands and forward-looking dreams—for themselves as well as their country—in times of crisis. Adopting the lens of “vernacular speculation,” she reveals how ordinary people create value, interpret ambiguity, and act on possible futures, even as the promises of democracy and development collapse around them. A powerful account of how hope, anticipation, and uncertainty reconfigure everyday life, City of Speculation captures what it means to imagine—and gamble on—the future in the wake of profound upheaval.