This week’s New Pubs features Schissler with a deep dive into Myanmar’s notorious 135; Edwards on temporality, Myanmar, and Gaza; and Peng on China’s selective influence in Myanmar’s conflicts;

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.

Schissler, Matt. “Unmaking Rohingya Statelessness: New Evidence and Opportunities in Myanmar’s Post-Coup Moment.” University of Melbourne Law School, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Working Paper Series, 2 April 2026.

Edwards, Michael. “When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’.” The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2026).

Peng, Xu. “China’s Selective Influence in Myanmar’s Conflicts.” Current History 125.870 (2026): 133-138.

This week’s New Pubs features joints on gender: Pe The Law, Mortensen, and Middleton on the authority of the Karen Women’s Organization; Matelski with testimonies of “Women Peace Ambassadors” in Shan State; and Etzold et al on the transnational dynamics of gendered violence in the Banladesh/Myanmar borderlands.

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.

Naw Pe The Law, Sofie Mortensen, and Carl Middleton. “A Critical Sister: Public Authority and the Role and Position of the Karen Women’s Organisation, Myanmar.” Gender & Society (2026): 08912432251415175.

Matelski, Maaike. “Testimonies of Women Peace Ambassadors in Myanmar’s Shan State.” Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (2026).

Etzold, Benjamin, Syeda Rozana Rashid, and Anas Ansar. “Gendered violence and conflict in the Bangladesh–Myanmar borderlands: (trans) local experiences and responses.” Gender, Place & Culture (2026): 1-20.

This week’s New Pubs features Tin Maung Htwe on how exiled youth in Mae Sot forge political space and challenge the junta; van Schendel on the ‘free hills’ between India and Burma during the British colonial period; and Rippa on China’s borderlands with Burma (and Laos).

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.

Tin Maung Htwe. “Weapons of the weak in a border zone: How Myanmar’s exiled youth in Mae Sot forge political space and challenge the junta through everyday resistance.” Asian Journal of Social Science 54.2 (2026): 100246.

van Schendel, Willem. “A hole in the British empire: The ‘Free Hills’ between India and Burma.” Modern Asian Studies 59.3 (2025): 589-617.

Rippa, Alessandro. “When is a Frontier? Nostalgia and Aspirations at China’s Borderlands with Burma and Laos.” Comparative Studies in Society and History (2026): 1-25.

This week’s New Pubs features Rhoads on statutory weakening and bureaucracy hinder the implementation of legal pluralism in Burma; Heiduk on Myanmar’s sham elections and the role of international cooperation; and Collignon on hierarchy as legitimacy in Burmese statecraft and civil war.

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.

Rhoads, Elizabeth. “Statutory Weakening and Bureaucratic Hurdles in the Implementation of Legal Pluralism in Myanmar.” Equality, Plurality and Personal Status Laws. Routledge (2026): 400-413.

Heiduk, Felix. “Sham elections amid the war in Myanmar: Prospects for national stability and international cooperation.” No. 9/2026. SWP Comment, 2026.

Collignon, Stefan. “Hierarchy as Legitimacy: The Holistic State and the Political Economy of Civil War in Myanmar,” Working Paper.

Roots of Arakan

Murshid Alam’s presentation will focus on the The Roots of Arakan project. This initiative brings together a team of young people from both Bangladesh and Myanmar, and includes young people of Rakhine, Bangladeshi, and Rohingya origin. They are united by a shared vision and work together to support their communities. The focus of the project is historical preservation, storytelling, and research-based documentation. It is an effort aimed at recording and protecting the diverse narratives of the Rohingya and other peoples of Arakan and the border areas. Their goal is to challenge historical erasure, contribute to justice and reconciliation, and to foster interethnic understanding through rigorous research, oral histories, cultural archiving, and advocacy.

Date: 30 March 2026 (Monday)

Time: 06:00 – 07:00 PM (Melbourne Time)
          01:30-02:30 PM (Myanmar/Yangon Time)
          01:00-2:00 PM (Bangladesh Time)

Join Zoom Meeting: please click here

Murshid Alam has participated in AMI seminars and speaks from the unique position of a young Rohingya. He is a Founder of Rohingya Youth Union-RYU, Director of Roots of Arakan Project, Global Youth Ambassador, NGFP Fellow, and an advocate for refugee rights. Murshid works to strengthen citizen action across borders, in the fields of Global Advocacy, Leadership, Diplomacy, Human Rights and Peacebuilding.

For AMI this is an opportunity to hear from voices which are rarely heard and whose perspective speaks to one of the most traumatic and difficult experiences in recent Myanmar history.

This week’s New Pubs features Cole’s book on conservation and sovereignty in southeast Myanmar; Davies and Htoon Oung on the ULA/AA’s “decentralization by force” policies in Western Myanmar; and Sullivan on the role of intermediaries in southeast Myanmar’s humanitarian response.

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.

Cole, Tomas. Possessed Landscapes: Experiments in Conservation and Sovereignty in Southeast Myanmar. University of Washington Press, 2026.

Davies, James T and Htoon Oung, Decentralisation by Force: The United League of Arakan/ Arakan Army’s Expansion in Western Myanmar, ANU Myanmar Research Centre. 

Sullivan, Meghan. “Considering Intermediaries as Relational Localizers: A Case Study of Localization in the Thai–Southeast Myanmar Border Humanitarian Response.” Public Administration and Development. 2026

Faxon, Hilary. Surviving the State: Struggles for Land and Democracy in Myanmar, Duke University Press, 2026.

decription: In Myanmar’s Kalay Valley, a rice-growing region near the Indian border, farmers have long been subject to violence and neglect. Surviving the State considers how these farmers’ everyday, land-based practices enable them to endure successive authoritarian regimes. Through robust ethnography, Hilary Oliva Faxon describes how Burman and Chin smallholders treat land not only as a source of food, but also as a living thing entwined with the families it supports. She considers the centrality of land both to state efforts at control and to inhabitants’ ability to articulate claims, looking at how locals evade, obfuscate, and reinvent legal boundaries in the face of seizures, redistribution, and revolution. Providing a feminist ethnography of land politics, Surviving the State is a testament to the daily work of survival in the face of political violence.

[and see here for all the pubs that don’t exist yet]

This week’s New Pubs features Metro on the politics of acknowledgements in Burma Studies and Tsai on Kachin ethnic education in northern Shan state. Note there are only two this week, so send us your publications!

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.

Metro, Rosalie. “The Politics of Acknowledgements: Strategy, Sincerity and Scholarly Gratitude in Burma/Myanmar Studies.” Asia Pacific Viewpoint (2025).

Tsai, Hawng. “Exploring Kachin ethnic education in Northern Shan State, Myanmar.” Asian Ethnicity (2026).

This week’s New Pubs features Houtman examining “do ayei” from chant to compact; Kim and Potter on Japan and Korea’s responses to Myanmar’s autocratization; and Lwin Cho Latt and Thidar Kyaw providing a Myanmar perspective on China/Indian machinations in the Indo-Pacific.

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.

Houtman, Gustaaf. “Inscribing Myanmar’s [nga]do ayei revolution: From Chant to Compact.” December 2025

Kim, Hyo‐sook, and David M. Potter. “Normative Convergence and Practical Divergence in Democracy Promotion: Japan’s and South Korea’s Responses to Autocratization in Myanmar.” Asian Politics & Policy 18.1 (2026).

Lwin Cho Latt and Thidar Kyaw. “A Sino-Indian Game of ‘Go’in the Indo-Pacific: A Myanmar Perspective.” JARC-UY, 11.1 & 2, 2025.

from Houtman

This week’s New Pubs features Lee and Zarandona on war, genocide, and heritage in Myanmar; K Yhome on Myanmar as an in-between space, in many ways; and Naung Naung on the use of transnational repression and the creation of new state spaces withing ASEAN.

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.

Lee, Rónán, and Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona. “War, Genocide, and Heritage in Myanmar.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2026. 1-21.

K. Yhome. “Myanmar: The In-Between Space and Its Implications.” Malaysia Sun 12-Feb-2026

Naung Naung. “Beyond Myanmar’s borders: the use of transnational repression and creation of new state spaces within ASEAN.” Ethnic and Racial Studies (2026).