Journals dedicated to Burma topics

Journal of Burma Studies recent issues:

• 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.
• 2024 (28.2): 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.

Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship recent issues:

• 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.
• March 2024 (4.2): Special Issue on “Feminism” (part II) with Zaw Yin, Collins, Gynn, Wala Kaw, Min Lwin, Shunn Lei Swe Yee, Hlaine, Hnin Wai, Htin Lynn, Nyi Aye, Ma Kyay, Pyo Let Han, and Su Su Maung.

This week’s publications:

• 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.
• 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.

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

• Chang, Wen-Chin. Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands: Untold Stories of Overland Chinese Migrants During the Cold War. Harvard University Press, 2025.
• Zaman, Mohammed, Robert Anderson, Kawser Ahmed, eds. Rohingya Stories: History and Geopolitics in a Multipolar World. Springer, 2025.
• Uddin, Nasir, ed. Scattered Lives of ‘Stateless’ People The Rohingyas in SAARC & ASEAN Countries. Springer, 2025.
• Crouch, Melissa. The Palimpsest Constitution The Social Life of Constitutions in Myanmar. Oxford University Press, 2025.
• Bowser, Matthew. Containing Decolonisation: British imperialism and the politics of race in late colonial Burma, Manchester University Press, 2025.
• Buscemi, Francesco. Arms Politics: Becoming and Being a Weapon in the Borderlands of Myanmar. Cornell University Press, 2025.
• Hue, Emily. Performing Vulnerability: Risking Art and Life in the Burmese Diaspora. University of Washington Press, 2025.
• Hedström, Jenny. Reproducing Revolution Women’s Labor and the War in Kachinland. Cornell University Press, 2025.
• Uddin, Nasir, ed. Reshaping Rohingya Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
• Wasserstrom, Jeff. The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing. Columbia University Press, 2025.
• Morton, Micah. Enchanted Modernities: Ancestral Vitalizations in the Upper Mekong. University of Wisconsin Press, 2025.

Journal Articles / Book Chapters

• 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.
• Aye Lei Tun and Ardeth Thawnghmung, “Myanmar.” in Netina Tan and Yuko Kasuya, eds. Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in Southeast Asia. Taylor & Francis, 2025.
• Moni, Rotna, et al. “‘Humanitarian Corridor’ to Deliver Aid to Myanmar’s Rakhine State: A Theoretical Analysis of Myanmar-Bangladesh Bilateral Relationship.” Journal of State Government and Mass Media 3.3 (2025).
• Bächtold, Stefan. “Experimenting on the Frontier: Imperial Laboratories and Facebook’s Political Effects in Myanmar.” in Dennis Nguyen, Jing Zeng, and Bruce Mutsvairo, eds. Technology, Power and Society: Critical Perspectives on the Global Digital Transformation (2025).
• Faxon, Hilary. “Militarized borderlands: Resistant ecologies and refugee networks at the margins of states.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space (2025).
• Han, Enze, and Sirada Khemanitthathai. “State failure and dilemma of security cooperation among neighbouring countries in the Global South: Evidence from Myanmar and Thailand.” European Journal of International Security: 1-16.
• Frydenlund, Shae. “Rethinking refugee surplus populations: exploitation and dialectical disposability in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.” New Political Economy, 2025.
• Ye Phone Kyaw. “Myanmar or Burma: Exploring the Dual Narratives of National Identity Dilemma.” Tomsk State University Journal of Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science. 2025. 85. pp. 235–248.
• Lynn Thar Yar and Andrew Jefferson. “Enduring commitment: a study of lawyering under authoritarian conditions in post-coup Myanmar.” Justice, Power and Resistance (2025): 1-16.
• Chan, Debby Sze Wan. “Public Engagement in Belt and Road Projects in Myanmar: Reform or Rhetoric?.” Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs (2025).
• Bu, Seng, and Maaike Matelski. “Long-Distance Activism by Myanmar Diaspora in the Netherlands in the Aftermath of the 2021 Military Coup.” Ethnopolitics (2025).
• Zreik, Mohamad. “Navigating digital activism and authoritarianism: A critical analysis of technological innovation for human rights and peace in Laos and Myanmar.” Global Change, Peace & Security (2025): 1-16.
• Chiu, Francesca. “Beyond Planned Developments: Small‐Scale Land Speculation and Displacement in Peri‐Urban Myanmar.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2025).
• Buscemi, Francesco. “The Political Geographies of Community in Warscapes.” Geoforum 164 (2025).
• Loong, Shona. “Thai-Myanmar Borderland as a Frontier Space.” Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights. Springer, 2025. 1-9.
• Venker, Nicole Tu-Maung, et al. “Food sovereignty across borders: Fishing among Myanmar refugees in Upstate New York.” Geoforum 162 (2025).
• Jang, Suyoun, and Brendan Howe. “How State-Centric Foci Undermine the Human Security of Stateless Rohingya.” Asian International Studies Review 1.aop (2025): 1-29.
• Olivius, Elisabeth, Malin Åkebo, and Jenny Hedström. “Navigating friction: women’s peacebuilding in hybrid regimes.” European Journal of International Relations (2025).
• Johnston, Melissa, and Jayanthi T. Lingham. “War on two fronts: Gender regimes and the ethnonationalist state in Myanmar and Sri Lanka” Political Geography 120 (2025).
• Htet Lynn Oo and Sandra Pogodda. “Peace Mediation in the Emerging Multipolar Order: Implications of China’s Growing Engagement in Myanmar’s Civil War.” Asian International Studies Review (2025).
• Yeo, Siew Han. “Colonial Prostitution in Burma: Inter-Asian Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Sexuality.” Critical Asian Studies (2025).
• Brenner, David. “Rebel Politics after the Coup: Ethnic Armed Organisations and Myanmar’s Spring Revolution.” Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2025.
• Tran Mai Van, et al. “Pro-democracy platform advocacy: Resisting Big Tech-mediated authoritarianism in Southeast Asia” Open Research Europe 5.10 (2025).
• Corbin, Luke. “To B.E. or Not to B.E.: Homemade and Industrial Hooch in Militarized Myanmar.” In Paul Chambers & Nithi Nuangjamnong (Eds.), Hooch and Hard Liquor in East Asia, Routledge (2025): 224–246).
• Kim, Do Kyun David, and Isaac Kim. “Social Media as a Seed of Connective Democracy in Myanmar (Burma): Freedom of Speech, Contractarianism, and Strategic Use of Social Media.” Social Media+ Society 11.1 (2025).
• Tuwanont Phattharathanasut and Will Brehm. “State-building, nationalism, and education in Myanmar: a comparative study of two eras.” Comparative Education (2025): 1-20.
• Selth, Andrew. “Spy Versus Spy: Myanmar’s Multiple Counterintelligence Challenges.” International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence (2025): 1-34.
• Pherali, Tejendra, et al. “Education and Conflict Review: Education in contexts of conflict and mass displacement in Myanmar.” Education and Conflict Review 5 (2025).
• Campbell, Stephen. “Navigating Thailand’s Extortion Regime: On the Ambiguities of Relational Autonomy in the Contested Management of Migrant Deportability.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2025.
• Hedström, Jenny and Elisabeth Olivius. “Knowing violence: Human rights documentation, narrative agency and resistance in Myanmar.” The Production of Gendered Knowledge of War. Routledge, 2025. 60-73.
• Roluahpuia. “Violence as border governmentality: Myanmar military coup, Assam-Mizoram border dispute and beyond.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (2025): 1-20.
• Aung Myo Htun. “Political Economy of Myanmar and Russia Friendship Before and After the Military Coup in 2021.” Decoding the Chessboard of Asian Geopolitics: Asian Powerplay in East and Southeast Asia, The Global North, and Other Emerging Issues. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2025. 165-187.
• Brooten, Lisa, and Syed Irfan Ashraf. “The ‘Star’ Correspondent and Parachute Diplomacy: CNN’s Clarissa Ward in Myanmar and Afghanistan.” International Journal of Communication 19 (2025): 19.
• Loong, Shona. “More-Than-Rebel Territory: War, Resistance, and Relations in the Salween Peace Park.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers (2025): 1-20.
• Metro, Rosalie. “Beyond Resilience: Barriers and Pathways in Higher Education for Double First-Gen Myanmar Refugee-Background Youth.” Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies 12.2 (2025): 159-177.
• Décobert, Anne. “Healthcare, solidarity, and moral community in Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis and revolution.” Disasters 49.3 (2025).
• Ganesan, Narayanan. “China’s Bilateral Relations with Myanmar: Close Ties and Hedging between Warring Parties.” East Asian Policy 17.01 (2025): 104-120.
• Vrieze, Paul. “A Broadening Resistance Coalition Challenges Myanmar’s Junta.” Current History 124.861 (2025): 129-135.
• Stella Naw and Jenny Hedström. “‘I’d rather create my own table than sit where I am not wanted.’ A Conversation Between Stella Naw and Jenny Hedström About Myanmar.” Brave Women: Fighting for Justice in the 21st Century. Springer Nature Switzerland (2025): 143-161.
• Hossain, Md Lab, et al. “Navigating ‘bare life’: a study of the Rohingya in the spaces of exception.” Asian Ethnicity (2025): 1-22.
• Wang, Chunyu, et al. “Migrant (farm) workers and farmers in China and Myanmar: a perspective from the sugarcane sector.” Agriculture and Human Values (2025): 1-14.
• Peng, Xu. “The Enduring Legacy and Historical Continuity of Kokang’s Mutinies in the China–Myanmar Borderlands.” Journal of Contemporary Asia (2025).
• Nursyazwani. “The value of ‘ummah’: racio-religious capital and Rohingya refugees’ world-building.” Third World Quarterly (2025).

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
• Courtin, Constant, Gareth Nellis, and Michael Weaver. “Poverty and Prejudice: Evidence from Myanmar.” (2025).
• Rhoads, Elizabeth. “Impacts of Conflict and Displacement on Myanmar Citizenship Pre and Post-2021.” IFM-Working Paper Series; No. 1/2025. Mosaic Myanmar (2025).
• Rieffel, Lex. “A Historical Note on Economic Reforms in Myanmar, 2006 to 2016” ISEAS Trends, Issue 11, 2025.
• See, Sheryn, Aaron Opdyke, and Susan Banki. “When the ground shakes in a fractured state: why integrated data matters in Myanmar.” Humanitarian Practice Network, 13 May 2025.
• Tin Maung Htwe. “The Role of Livelihood, Remittances and Social Capital of Myanmar Migrants in Mae Sot, Thailand Post-2021 Coup.” Research Institute, Pyin-Nya-Man-Daing (PNMD).
• Su Mon Thazin Aung. “Reinventing Territorial Self-Governance in Myanmar: Kachin’s New Approach and Its Dilemma in Post-Coup Myanmar” ISEAS Perspectives, 2025/18.