This week’s New Pubs features Filipowicz on the commons, magic, and resistance; Kakati on headhunters in zomia from 1944 to 1964; and Putri with an entry on the Rohingya in the Routledge handbook of human rights in Southeast Asia.
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collage of magic/resistance photos (source: BSG’s stenographer)
This week’s New Pubs features Chan on whether BRI public engagement is substantive or just for show; Bu and Matelski on the long-distance activism of Burmese in the Netherlands; and Zreik on how Burmese (and Laotians) activists are managing digital authoritarianism.
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| “Four Years of Courage: What the NUG Has Achieved” with Dr Tun Aung Shwe and Ma Thin Zar sponsored by the Australia Myanmar Institute This seminar is an online event via Zoom Date: July 28, 2025 (Monday)Time: 06:00 – 07:00 PM (Melbourne Time) 02:30-03:30 PM (Myanmar/Yangon Time) Join Zoom Meeting: please click here Meeting ID: 896 6683 9791 Passcode: 522994 Dr Tun Aung Shwe is the Representative of Myanmar’s National Unity Government in Australia, appointed on 19 July 2021. He is a graduate of University of Medicine (1) Yangon, University of Economics Yangon and University of New South Wales. He enjoyed the general practitioner life with local communities for 10 years in Kachin State, then moved to the non-profit, humanitarian sector, and worked for diverse projects and programs in Myanmar. He came to Australia for further study in public health and health management in 2008. Currently, he is undertaking Doctoral Studies at UNSW in the area of peace, conflict, and social cohesion. Ma ThinZar is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Public Policy and Governance, she possess long-standing experience in Myanmar’s humanitarian sector. As the former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management (MoHADM), she led operations in humanitarian assistance, cross-border aid delivery, civilian protection, and community resilience. Prior to that, she served as Director of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, where she was responsible for international cooperation and coordination, ASEAN affairs, research, human resource development, and overall disaster management efforts. |
This week’s New Pubs features Chiu on small-scale land speculation and displacement in peri-urban Myanmar; Buscemi on the political geographies of community in Karreni state warscapes; and a volume, edited by Uddin, on reshaping Rohingya futures.
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This week’s New Pubs features Wasserstrom’s short book on the Milk Tea Alliance, featuring Burmese activist Nickey Diamond; Loong on the Thai-Burma borderland as a frontier space; and Venker et al on fishing practices of Myanmar refugees in upstate New York.
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This week’s New Pubs features Jang and Howe on how state-centric paradigms undermine Rohingya security; Rieffel on Myanmar’s economic reforms from 2006-2016; and Olivius et al on women’s peacebuilding in Myanmar (and Sri Lanka).
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This week’s New Pubs features See et al on why integrated data matters in Myanmar’s humanitarian response; Johnston and Lingham comparing gender regimes in Myanmar and Sri Lanka; and Htet Lynn Oo and Pogodda on China’s role in Myanmar’s civil war.
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Myanmar emergency workers clear earthquake rubble (source: the internet)
This week’s New Pubs features Yeo on colonial sex work in Burma; Brenner on EAOs and Myanmar’s revolution; and Tran et al on pro-democracy platform advocacy in Myanmar (+ in Th and Kh).
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This week’s New Pubs features Corbin on homemade and industrial hooch in Myanmar; Kim and Kim on social media as a seed of connective democracy; and Tuwanont and Brehm comparing the nationalist content of two eras of Myanmar school curricula.
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Burma Studies scholar Patricia Herbert passed away recently – see the obit in the Guardian here
Herbert’s study on Hsaya San rebellion [“The Hsaya San Rebellion (1930-1932) Reappraised,” Monash University Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, 1982, 1-13.] remains important for scholars to this day. Get it here and read it, if you haven’t done so yet.
Burma Studies Group 