This week’s New Pubs features a volume edited by Jaquet on defiance, civil resistance, and experiences of violence under post-coup military rule; a book by Brinham on Rohingya and ‘genocide cards’; and Egreteau and Aung Kaung Myat on the exclusion of Rohingya in Myanmar’s parliamentary discourse (2011-2021).

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A. Thomas Kirsch Award for Southeast Asia Studies

The A. Thomas Kirsch Award for Southeast Asia Studies is an annual award established in memory of A. Thomas Kirsch, a pioneer in Thai studies and cherished professor of anthropology at Cornell University, to support graduate student members of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) engaged in the study of Southeast Asia.

Award Details

• Amount: $1,000
• Frequency: One award will be given annually at the AAA annual meeting
• Funding Use: The scholarship funds can be used towards ground and air travel, accommodation, meals and living costs, visa and passport fees, international health insurance, language study/program costs, research/field study expenses, and/or AAA membership dues.

Eligibility

Applicants must:

1. Be enrolled as a student in a full-time academic program anywhere in the world leading to a graduate degree in anthropology.
2. Demonstrate a commitment to the anthropological study of Southeast Asia. Students working in any subfield in anthropology are eligible to apply. For the purposes of this award, the definition of “study of Southeast Asia” includes research carried out within the geographical region of Southeast Asia as well as research conducted outside it, including but not limited to research conducted in libraries, or among Southeast Asian diasporic communities living outside of the region.
3. Be a member of the American Anthropological Association at the time of receiving the award. Students who are not currently members may still apply for the award, but winners will be asked to become a student member of the AAA as a condition of receiving the award. Award funds may be used to pay for the cost of the student membership.
4. Non-US citizens are eligible to apply.

This week’s New Pubs features Xu et al on stigma, spirituality, and coping strategies of Burmese people living with HIV; Sanchez Molano on the experiences of young Muslim inhabitants of Mingala Taungnyunt and Tamwe; and the Wares on the role of art in peacebuliding in Rakhine state.

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This week’s New Pubs features Salem-Gervais et al on education in post-coup Myanmar; Khairi on the role of Rohingya refugee CBOs in Malaysia; and Ven et al with a linguistic study of Burmese kinship terms in Taungdwingyi.

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Huard, Stephén. Calibrated Engagement: Chronicles of Local Politics in the Heartland of Myanmar. Berghahn Books, 2024.

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For decades, the heartland of Myanmar has been configured as a pacified space under military surveillance. A closer look reveals how politics is enacted at distance with the state. Calibrated Engagement weaves together ethnography and history to chronicle the transformation of rural politics in Anya, the dry lands of central Myanmar. The book presents situations as varied as local elections, inheritance transmissions, land conflicts and ceremonies, to show that politics is about how people calibrate the way they engage with each other

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“This is an incredibly important piece of scholarship … not only is this the first village study of lowland Myanmar (with Ardeth Thawnghmung’s Teak Curtain exception) in 60 years, but we have never before seen a text that develops a diachronic account of Burma’s villages over time.” • Elliott Prasse-Freeman, National University of Singapore

“Huard not only delivers the first ethnographical account of a rural village in Central Myanmar since Manning Nash and Melford Spiro’s studies in the sixties … he also writes a lively history of the making of the local rural society. Easy to go through, infused with the author’s empathy for his hosts, the book is well written.” • Brac de la Perrière Bénédicte, Centre Asie du Sud-Est-EHESS

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This week’s New Pubs features Connelly and Michaels on post-coup diplomacy in Myanmar; Chao on Burmese diasporic activism; and Palmiano Federer on Myanmar’s ceasefire process.

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This week’s New Pubs features Khin Khin Mra and Hedström on gender and the body in the Spring Revolution; Martin et al on prison protests in the Spring Rev; and Lee and Hoque on Rohingya education in Malaysia.

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This week’s New Pubs features Frydenlund and Phyo Wai on Buddhist responses to the 2021 coup, Aung Ko Ko et al on the challenges facing Myanmar’s territory-less minorities; and Connelly and Loong with a book on before and after the 2021 coup.

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King Zero (photo by DVB)