This week’s New Pubs features Black with a book on Japan-Myanmar relations; Lewis on intellectuals in Cold War Burma; and Neef et al on the relationship between conflict, climate change, and displacement for Rohingya in Bangladesh.
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This week’s New Pubs features Cheesman’s book on key political terms and concepts in Myanmar; Steinhübel-Rasheed and Minten on the effects of conflict on small-holder production; and Saw Kyaw Zin Khay et al on human security in Myanmar after the coup.
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Speakers: Khin Oo Thazin, Ko Maung, Shunn Lei
Chair: Stephen Campbell
Date: Thursday 7 September 2023
Time zone: 6pm MMT (UTC+6.30)
MRC Dialogue Series presents “The prison and the revolution in Myanmar: Exploring prison protests during a revolutionary situation”
Speaker: Tomas Max Martin & Andrew M Jefferson
Date: Tuesday 5 September 2023
Time zone: 5-6pm (AEST) (UTC+10), 1.30- 2.30pm MMT (UTC+6.30)
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This week’s New Pubs features Johnson’s book on empire, gender, and Charlotte Wheeler-Cuffe in Burma; Myo Win and Arraiza on Burmese citizens’ citizenship challenges after the coup; and Cao on how India and Burma decided on recognizing the PRC in 1949.
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^ Charlotte Wheeler-Cuffe
This week’s New Pubs features DPAG and TNI with a commentary on lessons from Burmese transgender and HIV movements; Fumagalli on Myanmar’s fragmented sovereignties; and Haque et al with an edited volume on Rohingya displacement.
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image: Torbakhopper
Date: August 28, 2023 (Monday)
Duration: 1 hour
Time: 06:00 – 07:00 PM AEST Time (14:30-15:30 Myanmar/Yangon Time)
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Meeting ID: 5506154368
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The NLD Government from 2016 held a strong commitment to the rebuilding of the rule
of law in Myanmar, and the independence of the judiciary. It’s time to consider where things stand today in the wake of the evidently forced resignation of Chief Justice Htun Htun Oo (appointed in 2011 by President Thein Sein) and the development of training and other law programs by the NLD Government.
Dr Marcus Brand is the Head of Programme for IDEA (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance) in Myanmar. He has extensive experience in Myanmar, also with UNDP earlier in his career and has more than 20 years experience in promoting democratic governance, human rights and the rule of law.
A commentary will be delivered by an anonymous academic speaker from inside Myanmar.
Speaker: Justine Chambers
Date: Tuesday 22 August 2023
Time: 5-6pm (AEST) (UTC+10), 1.30- 2.30pm MMT (UTC+6.30)
Venue: Hybrid Event, register here.
| ‘The military has messed with the wrong generation’: The longue durée of Myanmar’s youth-led revolution |
Myanmar’s spring revolution against the violent reimposition of military rule has been built around the actions and voices of what is often referred to as Generation Z – those born between 1997-2012. Beginning with widespread creative acts of protest, the growth of a powerful Civil Disobedience Movement and a violent resistance in the form of People’s Defence Forces (PDFs), Myanmar’s younger generation are widely seen to have ‘galvanized’ the country-wide revolution against the military leaders (Beyer 2021; Jordt et al. 2021). The category of Generation Z is analysed as if it were a homogenous whole, a population category only and mistakenly defined by age. However, to speak of Myanmar’s youth in the singular is to obscure their great diversity, including rural/urban divides, ethnic and religious identities, social classes and individual experiences of the revolution itself. In this article, we draw from an ‘ethnographic sensibility’ (McGranahan 2018), bringing attention to the lived expectations, complexities, possibilities and contradictions of young men and women in a time of revolution. By bringing together both an insider and outsiders’ perspective we shed light on Myanmar’s spring revolution from a new angle and the category of Generation Z, and also add to scholarly debates on youth as revolutionary actors. |
This week’s New Pubs features an edited volume by Chambers and Dunford on Myannmar’s current crises; three essays (by Aung-Thwin; Foxeus; and Han) from a Routledge handbook of nationalism in Asia; and Prodip, who asks “education for what?” for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
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Burma Studies Group 