This week’s New Pubs features Venker considering litigation as an act of citizenship in colonial Burma; Cornish on forcibly resettled Yangonites, 25 years later; and the venerable Varasiri arguing the Maṅgala Sutta may aid with peacebuilding in Myanmar.
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This week’s New Pubs features Ma Thida’s book on the Spring Revolution; Thame’s political theory on constituent power in that revolution; and Scham’s book, “An Archaeology of Persecuted Peoples,” which focuses on mountainous Asia and includes the Rohingya.
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This week’s New Pubs features A names only: Abb et al on the BRI in post-coup Myanmar; Aung Naing on emergent citizenship in the context of post-coup social protection; and Abd Jalil and Hoffstaedter on Malaysia schemes for registering (mostly Burmese) refugees.
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Scott, James C. In Praise of Floods, Yale University Press, 2025.
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This week’s New Pubs features the compellingly titled “Calibrated Engagement” by Huard, a classic Burma village study; Chowdhooree and Ferdaus on Rohingya women’s entrepreneurship in Bhasan Char; and Tansey and Plunkett on ASEAN’s willingness to ignore the global anti-coup norm.
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“David Steinberg, a long term Burma observer, born 1928, died at age 96 on 6 December 2024. He was a continual contrarian, insisting on analyzing the country through neither military nor oppositional perspectives – a position that, not unexpectedly, often earned him few friends in either camp. Yet, he was also humble regarding his incomplete knowledge of the country, and likewise was generous to younger scholars, encouraging them to learn the language, live in the country, and thereby go beyond his own understanding of Myanmar. He will be missed.” – Elliott Prasse-Freeman
Special Issue: PopMyanmar, with contributions from Alfred Scott and Rory Gill on the role of newspapers in the 1930 dockworker riot; Htay Htay Myint on Chinese literature in Myanmar; MacLachlan on music as a key dimension of courtship; and Chiarofonte on revolutionary music and Thingyan chants. Ferguson’s introduction is here.
This week’s New Pubs features Dunford’s PhD diss on tea and Ta’ang, Mosberg’s on the politics of climate change adoption in southeastern Myanmar; Joseph’s master’s thesis on Karen nation-building during the Spring Revolution; and Vrieze’s diss on coalition building in the spring revolution.
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Burma Studies Group Travel Award for the 2025 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting
The Burma Studies Group (BSG) is delighted to announce Travel Awards to support graduate students attending the 2025 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, which will take place in Columbus, Ohio, in March 2025.
This award is open to graduate students conducting research in the field of Burma studies. Preference will be given to applicants of Burmese nationality.
The award is intended to assist with travel expenses for the conference. The exact amount will be determined based on available funding and the number of recipients.
We strongly encourage all eligible graduate students to apply. Any questions, drop us a line, you can find our contact details here. https://burmastudiesgroup.com/contact-us/. Please support BSG by paying your dues, for details https://burmastudiesgroup.com/support-bsg/
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