Journals dedicated to Burma topics

Journal of Burma Studies recent issues:

• 2025 (29.2): Special Issue: “Rebuilding Prospects for ‘Peace’” edited by Julia Palmiano Federer and Aye Myat Su Wai, with contributions from Loong, Clare, and Naw Moo on gender and peacebuilding in the Salweeen peace park; Tin Maung Htwe on feminist and Marxist perspectives on women’s roles in the revolution; Haines on understanding Sisters2Sisters and spouses of people’s soldiers; and Nhep on clientelism in Myanmar residential care facilities.
• 2025 (29.1): Special Issue: “Histories of Belonging and Identities (Re)Imagined,” edited by Hitomi Fujimura and Alicia Turner, with contributions from Maynadi Kyaw on the Japanese and U Ottama; Kazuto Ikeda on Karen and the Thakins; Fujimora on booze and gender; and Kei Nemoto on shoes and religion.

Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship recent issues:

• February 2026 (7): Special Issue on “Climate Change and Conflict,” with Justine Chambers, Helene Maria Kyed, Ah Lynn & Nyan Pyi Thit, Naw Htee Ku & Kasper Hoffmann, May Thiri, Saint Sann Aye, Saw Ner Dhu Da, and Marianne Mosberg.
• October 2025 (6): Special Issue on “Displacement to Mizoram,” with Salai Zoong; Tun Myint, David Moe, Hannah Russell, Zohesia, Yu Gan Paing, Dawt, Zalette Myey, and Len Len
• April 2025 (5): Special Issue on “Weaknesses of the Sit-tat,” with Tun Myint, Yucca Wai & Joseph Andersson, Chan Min, Aung Myo Htet, Yay Keh, Htun Zaw Myat, Htet Myat, Thet Paing, Naung Yoe, Maw Kun, and Ma Su Thit.

This week’s publications:

• Chambers, Justine. “Cultivating re-existence: women’s care work and political placemaking on the Myanmar-Thai river border.” Journal of Peasant Studies, 2026.
• Bowser, Matthew. “The Rohingya and Arakan: Decolonization at the Margins of Empire.” The Journal of Asian Studies (2026).
• Mandelkorn, Michael. “A View from the Forests: Depression, Crisis, and Rebellion in Burma’s Environmental Borderlands.” The Journal of Asian Studies (2026).

Below are a list of publications from 2025, divided by type of publication. Pubs from 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and early 2025 have migrated to our publications archive, which you can find here.

Books

• Aung Naing, ed. Assemblages of Myanmar: How Realities are Made Up. Chiang Mai: RCSD, 2026
• Loong, Shona. “Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld.” Development and Change (2026).
• Prasse-Freeman, Elliott. “Displacement, two ways: Necroeconomic navigations in the peri-urban global southeast,” in Displacement Urbanism, Giovanna Astolfo and Camillo Boano, eds. Bristol University Press, 2026, pp 55-71.
• Passeri, Andrea. Myanmar’s Post-Coup Foreign Policy: Weathering Isolation and Sanctions. Taylor Francis, 2026
• Myo Naing and Yizheng Zou. Operation 1027: A Turning Point in Myanmar’s Conflict Landscape. Springer, 2025.
• Houtman, Gustaaf, Elliot Lodge, and Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, eds. Ethnography Thrice Under Fire: Myanmar’s At-Risk Researchers of At-Risk Communities in At-Risk Environments. RCSD, Chiang Mai University, 2025.

Journal Articles / Book Chapters

• Simpson, Adam, Tom Kean and Susan Park “Environmental activism and authoritarianism in Myanmar: Interrogating assemblages across three political epochs.” Environmental Politics, 2026.
• Egreteau, Renaud. “How contentious repertoires travel: pioneering hunger strikes as resistance in late colonial Burma.” Southeast Asia Research (2026).
• Loong, Shona. “Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence: Reflections on Listening, Solidarity, and Decoloniality in Myanmar’s Borderlands.” Asia Pacific Viewpoint (2025).
• Steinmüller, Hans. “No egalitarianism in the Wa hills: relative commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2026).
• Rahman, Shukufe, and Shafinaz Sameen. “Redefining Gender Norms and Building Resilience: The Role of Education for Young Rohingya Women in Refugee Camps in Bangladesh.” Globalisation and Education for Refugee and Displaced Children: Education and Policy Reforms in Non-Western Contexts. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2026. 65-79.
• Saha, Jonathan. “Decolonizing Elephants: Animal Capital at the End of Empire in Myanmar.” Humanimalia 16.1 (2025): 127-161.
• Chakhesang, Kushelu. “Sacred Spaces in Conflicts: Faith Based Organizations and the Peacebuilding Landscape in Northeast India and Southeast Myanmar.” Conflict and Peace Studies Journal (2025): 73-97.
• Edwards, Michael. “Wheels Turning: Anthropological Solidarity, Engaged Buddhism, and a Return to the 1990s.” American Anthropologist (2025).
• Ahmed, Kawser. “Rethinking Humanitarian Diplomacy for Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis Resolution: A Critical Analysis.” Journal of Peacebuilding & Development (2025).
• Muhammad, Andra Khagum, Jusmalia Oktaviani, and Anggun Dwi Panorama. “Beyond Wavering: Post-Colonial Resistance and Norm Contestation in ASEAN’s Response to Myanmar’s Coup.” Nation State: Journal of International Studies 8.2 (2025): 102-123.
• Saruya, Rachelle. “Wishing at the Banyan Tree: Wishing-for-children Rituals in the Buddhist Scriptures and in Contemporary Practices in Myanmar and Beyond.” Journal of Global Buddhism 26.1 (2025): 98–119
• Kapur, Roshni, and Amit Ranjan. “The Military’s Disposition to Intervene in Myanmar: Sustenance and Newfound Challenges.” Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs 47.3 (2025): 465-490.
• Čavoški, J. “An Unexpected Partner from Afar: Setting the Historical Foundations of the Yugoslav–Burmese Relationship (1947–1952).” Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 95. Suppl 4 (2025): S471-S481.
• Huard, Stéphen and Mya Dar Li Thant. “Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma.” Journal of Agrarian Change, 2025.
• Bram, Chen, and Ran Shauli. “Israel-Myanmar Relations and the Rohingya Mass Killings.” Israel-Asia Relations in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge, 2023. 201-215
• Bowser, Matthew. “Reasonable Parties: Empire and Ethnonationalism in Burma and Malaya, 1945–1948.” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (2025): 1-37.
• Bünte, Marco, and Loren Bustos. “Myanmar.” in the Elgar Encyclopedia of International Sanctions. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025: 139-141.
• Zakaria, Hairunnisa. “Rohingya Community in Kelantan: National Security Concern and Local Perception.” International Journal of Law, Government and Communication, 10 (42), 2025, pp 16-26.
• Peng, Xu. “The Politics of Persistence: China’s Border Government and Aid to the Communist Party of Burma, 1969–1989.” Asian Studies Review (2025): 1-21.
• Green, Penny. “State Crime, Social Harm and Genocide.” in Crime, Harm and the State. Bristol University Press, 2025. 234-253.
• Sai Sam Kham. “The spectacular commodity and land rush in Myanmar: its extent and consequences.” Globalizations (2025): 1-20.
• 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]
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• Hsu, Mu‐Lung. “Lived Experiences of Saṃvega: The Free Funeral Service Movement and the Ethical Dimensions of Encounters with Suffering in Contemporary Myanmar.” Journal of Religious Ethics, 2025.
• Moe Thuzar. “The Myanmar Military’s Language of Security and Its Implications for Regional Diplomacy.” Asian Politics & Policy 17.4 (2025).
• Watanabe, Kota. “Behind the Scam Cities: Armed Brokerage in the Myanmar–Thai Borderland.” Critical Asian Studies, 2025.
• Beyer, Judith. “Asylum Interviews in the UK: The Problem of Evidence and the Possibility of Applied Anthropology.” Social Anthropology 33.3 (2025): 51-65.
• Pum Za Mang. “Christianity, Resistance, and the Chin in Burma.” International Bulletin of Mission Research 49.4 (2025): 319-330.
• Zhong, Xiaoxin. “Making belonging at the margins: borderland citizenship among Myanmar brides in southwest China.” Citizenship Studies (2025): 1-17.
• LiLi Mie et al. “Income inadequacy, access to diversified diet, and food insecurity among low-income urban neighborhoods in Myanmar: the intersection of poverty and authoritarian governance.” Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition, 2025.
• Zreik, Mohamad. “Social media shifts in Myanmar’s tourism image post-2021 military coup.” Current Issues in Tourism (2025): 1-14.
• Gao, Xing. “Religion, migration, and the politics of recognition: mediated citizenship and the Tai Association in the China-Myanmar-Thailand borderlands.” Citizenship Studies (2025): 1-17.
• You Tianlong. “Refusable citizenship: stateless Myanmar Muslims and the contingent politics of belonging in China’s southwestern borderlands.” Citizenship Studies, 2025.
• Ecks, Stefan. “The Suppression of Depression as Multimediation: Psychiatric Diagnoses Under Myanmar’s Military Dictatorship.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (2025): 1-26.
• Wong, Sara. “Towards an anti-colonial aesthetic politics: Surrealist praxis and epistemic refusal.” Review of International Studies (2025): 1-22.
• Romero Jiménez, Paula, et al. “Making Sense of Post-coup Myanmar through Facebook.” Technology, Power and Society: Critical Perspectives on the Global Digital Transformation. Brill, 2025. 166-183.
• Egreteau, Renaud. “Fasting as Commemorative Strategy: Hunger Strikes and Collective Memory in Myanmar’s Contentious Politics.” Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs (2025).
• Deka, Chayanika. “Unpacking the Myanmar Crises: A Humanitarian Catastrophe in South and Southeast Asia.” SAIS Review of International Affairs 45.1 (2025): 43-57.
• Yang, Jiaolian. “A Brief Analysis of Refugees and Crime Issues on the Myanmar-Thailand Border Based on the Focus-Field Methodology.” Journal of Theory and Practice in Humanities and Social Sciences 2.4 (2025): 12-24.
• Salem-Gervais, Nicolas, et al. “Local Languages and Education Amidst Conflict and Federal Aspirations in Myanmar.” Moussons. Recherche en sciences humaines sur l’Asie du Sud-Est 45 (2025): 105-147.

Shorts / Reports / Dissertations / Working Papers / Blog posts / White Papers / Series

• Kusakabe, Kyoko, Sanda Thant, and Duanghathai Buranajaroenkij. “Women Peace and Security Networks Sustaining Peace Efforts in Myanmar and Thailand.” (2025).
• Tay Zar Myo Win and Phyu Phyu Thi. “Deadly posts: Examining and countering harmful social media content in post-coup Myanmar.” Knowledge for Democracy Myanmar (K4DM), 2025
• Hattori, Ryuji and Tual Sawn Khai. “Japan’s Humanitarian Aid Toward Myanmar After the 2021 Coup: Exploring Four Channels Amid the Weaponization of Assistance.” Springer Briefs in International Relations, 2025.
• Islam, Sariful. “Calling the Rohingya “Kalar”: Dehumanization and Genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar.” SIMEC Bulletin 2.2 (2025): 2-7