Proposals due date: Mon 1 December 2025
Conference date: Fri 24 and Sat 25 July 2026
Conference venue: The Australian National University, Canberra

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This week’s New Pubs features Tin Maung Htwe on Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand vis-a-vis justice paradigms; Mazumdar on rethinking digital humanitarianism in Rohingya refugee camps; and Mineta on care and territoriality within border governance in Kachin.

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Tin Maung Htwe. “The Common Good Toward the Crucial Role of Myanmar Migrant Workers in Thailand Through the Prisms of Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice.” Political Theory, History, and Modern Practice for the Common Good. IGI Global Scientific Publishing, 2026. 299-328.

Mazumdar, Suruchi. “Rethinking digital humanitarianism in rohingya refugee camps.” Transnational Legal Theory (2025): 1-24.

Mineta, Shiro. “Influence of Regime of Care and Territoriality on Border Governance in Kachin, Myanmar.” in Mitsuru Yamada and Kazumi Abe, eds Peacebuilding in Southeast Asia, Springer 2025.

This week’s New Pubs features Sai Sam Kham on the specular commodity and land rush in Myanmar; Zaman et al with yet another Springer edited volume on the Rohingya crisis; and Ryan on art as intervention in Kachin state environmentalism.

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Sai Sam Kham. “The spectacular commodity and land rush in Myanmar: its extent and consequences.” Globalizations (2025): 1-20.

Zaman, Mohammed, Robert Anderson, Kawser Ahmed, eds. Rohingya Stories: History and Geopolitics in a Multipolar World. Springer, 2025.

Ryan, John Charles. “Art as intervention: Environmental creativity in Kachin State, Myanmar.” Melbourne Asia Review 2025.24 (2025). [link is currently not working: https://www.melbourneasiareview.edu.au/art-as-intervention-environmental-creativity-in-kachin-state-myanmar/?print=pdf]

This week’s New Pubs features an edited volume by Uddin on the Rohingya disapora in SAARC and ASEAN countries; Rhoads et al on civil documentation as a modality of ‘bordering’; and Ahmed et al on how Bangladesh’s militarized camp landscape impacts Rohingya refugees.

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Uddin, Nasir, ed. Scattered Lives of ‘Stateless’ People The Rohingyas in SAARC & ASEAN Countries. Springer, 2025.

Rhoads, Elizabeth, et al. “Modalities of Bureaucratic Violence: Bordering via Civil Documentation in Myanmar.” Journal of Borderlands Studies (2025): 1-23.

Ahmed, Saleh, Thomas Campbell, and Kendra Duran. “Socio-ecological disruptions in a militarized landscape: the unfolding nature of the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh.” Space and Polity (2025): 1-19.

This week’s New Pubs features a two-part article by Kiik on the village-based dimensions of the Myitsone anti-dam movement; Sheikh and Morris on Rohingya narratives on their heritage rather than their victimhood; and Zahed with testimonials on why Rohingya have fled violent displacement.

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Kiik, Laur. “Rural resistance under a golden dictatorship” International Journal of Asian Studies (2025): part 1, the Myitsone villages and part 2, the suspended villages.

Sheikh, Saqib and Carolyn Morris. “Rohingya Narratives Beyond Victimhood: Responses to Reporting on Heritage Destruction,” in Bijan Rouhani, Bill Finlayson and Timothy Clack, eds. Reporting Heritage Destruction, Archaeopress, 2025, pp 89-97. 

Zahed, IU Md. “Why did the Rohingya Flee? Experiences of Violent Displacement” Asian Affairs (2025).

from Kiik, part 1

More than four years after the Myanmar military overthrew the country’s democratically elected government, it has announced it will hold elections in late 2025. These elections will take place amid a civil war in which neither the junta nor the various resistance forces show any sign of defeat or surrender.

In this panel discussion, co-hosted by the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, researchers from the UBC Myanmar Initiative and the Knowledge for Democracy in Myanmar Initiative will share their perspectives on the recent conflict dynamics and possibilities for Myanmar’s post-conflict future.

Speakers:

• Dr. Htet Thiha Zaw, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia; Fellow, UBC Myanmar Initiative
• Napas Thein, Inaugural Research Fellow, Myanmar Policy and Community Knowledge Hub (MyPACK), University of Toronto
• Dr. Sai Kyi Zin Soe, Research Affiliate, Centre for Disability Research and Policy (CDRP), University of Sydney
• Hsu Myat Yadanar Thein, International Liaison Officer, School of Public Policy, Chiang Mai University

moderated by Professor Kai Ostwald, HSBC Chair in Asian Research and an Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia; APF Canada Senior Fellow

“Rehearsing Federalism from Below: Community Agency and Education Governance in Post-Coup Myanmar”

Time: 06:00 – 07:00 PM (Melbourne Time)

02:30-03:30 PM (Myanmar/Yangon Time)

Zoom here https://us06web.zoom.us/s/89666839791…

Meeting ID: 896 6683 9791

Passcode: 522994

Ei Ei Phyu is an education and policy practitioner from Myanmar with over twelve years of experience advancing multilingual and Indigenous education in conflict-affected regions. She helped found the Rural Indigenous Sustainable Education (RISE) movement, served in program and advocacy leadership roles, working with 18 ethnic education partners across Myanmar and along the Thailand and Myanmar border to co-design community-led schooling and teacher support systems. Ei Ei Phyu’s work has focused on building democratic, pan-ethnic network governance models that bring diverse Indigenous and non-state actors together to set shared priorities, embed local languages and cultures in learning, and transform community insights into policy and systemic change.

This week’s New Pubs features Hsu on the Free Funeral Service societies and the ethics of encountering suffering; Kusakabe et al on women peace and security networks in Myanmar and Thailand; and Moe Thuzar on the effect of the Sit-Tat’s language of security on regional diplomacy.

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^ from Hsu (2025).

This week’s New Pubs features Watanabe looking beyond the Thai/Burma border’s “scam cities”; Beyer on the problem of evidence in asylum interviews (of Rohingyas and others); and Pum Za Mang on the way that Chin written scripts have allowed them to resist Burmanization.

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This week’s New Pubs features Crouch’s book on Myanmar’s many overlapping constitutions; Zhong on the Burma bride trade to southwest China; and Tay Zar Myo Win and Phyu Phyu Thi on harmful social media content in post-coup Myanmar.

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