Journal of Burma Studies 26.2 special issue on “Astrological and Divinatory Practices in Burma” featuring articles by Aurore Candier, Jane M. Ferguson, Aurore Candier, Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière, Céline Coderey, and Caterina Guenzi.
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This week’s New Pubs features Ford and Thushara on the use of female underwear in protests against a gynophobic regime; Hedström and Olivius look at life histories across the ‘transition’; and Dean et al look at the spatial effects of Chinese projects along the China-Myanmar border.
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This week’s installment is not particularly old, but it’s fascinating: an ethnography of Yangon’s deaf community and their struggle for what author Ellen Foote calls “linguistic citizenship.” We only have the introduction, unfortunately, but see here for it, and for all the other cuts in our series.
Foote, Ellen. Sign Languages and Linguistic Citizenship: A Critical Ethnographic Study of the Yangon Deaf Community. Routledge, 2020.
This week’s New Pubs features Buscemi on blunt biopolitical rule by Myanmar’s EAOs; Saha applying the lens of racial capitalism to the Saya San rebellion; and Bakali examining the Rohingya genocide thorough War on Terror logic.
As always, see our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks.
This week’s New Pubs features Matelski et al on civil society’s efforts to document human rights violations; Ferguson on Win Oo, the rock star who shook it like Elvis, appropriately, during the BSPP era; and Islam et al on Rohingya mistrust of medical services in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps.
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Given the incredible involvement of anya အညာ in the current revolution, we wanted to devote a few instalments to understanding the area. This week two articles on the formation of anya and its people, with Myo Oo on colonial boundary making, and Michael Aung-Thwin’s conception of anya as heartland.
Myo Oo. “Making Anyatha (Upper Lander) and Auktha (Lower Lander): Crossing the Introduction of the Colonial Boundary System to British Burma (Myanmar),” Suvannabhumi 13.2 (July 2021):135-164.
Aung-Thwin, Michael. “Mranma Pran: When Context Encounters Notion”. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 39, no. 2 (June 2008): 193–217.
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The Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A. seeks applications to its doctoral program in Holocaust History and Genocide Studies and to its new cross-disciplinary PhD in Genocide Studies. Applications from any country are welcome. Admitted students will receive five years of full funding, including a living stipend and a research bursary of $5,000/summer.
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This week’s New Pubs features Forsyth and Springate-Baginski asking “who benefits from an agrarian transition when its done under violent conflict?”; Crouch analyzes how the courts are militarized in Myanmar; and Simpson outlines new avenues for online repression post-coup.
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