This week’s New Pubs features Jaehn on Burmese mobility during a time of coup, covid, and conflict; Boughton et al on the effect of the coup and Covid on poverty; and Steinhübel and Minten on the relationship between urban proximity, conflict, and agricultural development in Myanmar.
As ever, 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.
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The Journal of Burma Studies has released its new issue (27.2)!
It featuring articles by Tual Sawn Khai; Khen Suan Khai; Nyunt Nyunt Win and Aung Naing; Michael Griffiths; Wah Wah and Aung Naing; and Mikael Gravers.
see here for the previous issue and other recent publications
This week’s New Pubs features Egreteau on how legislators frame contentious megaprojects; Mai Van Tran on how the military attempts to incite civilians to disrupt popular protests; and Metro on the role of neoliberal private education in Myanmar.
As ever, 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.
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This week’s New Pubs features Olivius and Hedström on borderlands as political spaces for Burmese Women’s Activism; Kolovou et al on community-led housing in Yangon; and Chu May Paing remembering youthful photo ‘stickers’ and their cultural resonances.
As ever, 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.
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This week’s New Pubs features Htet Min Lwin and Walton on rethinking the meaning of independence during revolutionary times; Timisina and Zaman comparing the Sami minority of Norway with the Rohingya; and Loong et al at IISS present a conflict mapping of six warscapes in Myanmar.
As ever, 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.
Title: 2023 Myanmar Update: From Coup to Revolution
Date: Friday 21 July and Saturday 22 July 2023
Time: Friday: 9am-5pm AEST, 5.30am-1.30pm MMT
Saturday: 9am-4pm AEST, 5.30am-12.30pm MMT
Venue: hybrid
ONLINE: Zoom registration here
This week’s New Pubs features Connelly and Loong on the international response to conflict in Myanmar; Matsuzawa on transnational NGO advocacy regarding the Thilawa SEZ; and Roy et al on the growing crisis in Myanmar workers’ wellbeing.
As ever, 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.
We also direct you to our BSG Publications archive, which now holds all the texts from our weekly blasts from 2021 until mid-2023: https://wordpress.com/page/burmastudiesgroup.com/496
This week’s New Pubs features Salem-Gervais on whether curricular reform can address Burmanization; Sarma et al on Chinese plantation expansion in Kachin; and Sai Latt’s assessment of whether what is occurring is rebellion or revolution [Burmese].
As ever, 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.
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