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:

• Aung, Geoffrey Rathgeb. “The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of Myanmar.” Verso Blog
• Thawnghmung, Ardeth Maung, et al. “Can Pandora’s Box Be Closed? How People in Myanmar Access and Identify Trustworthy Information After the Coup.” International Journal of Communication 20 (2026): 1472-1491.
• Roberts, Kimberly. “Research Ethics in Conflict Zones: Reflections on ‘Do no Harm’ Ethics for the Research Network.” Asia Pacific Viewpoint (2026).

Below are a list of publications from 2026, divided by type of publication. Pubs from 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 have migrated to our publications archive, which you can find here.

Books

• Stout, James. Against the State Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava. AK Press, 2026.
• Lall, Marie, and Ikuko Okamoto. Myanmar’s Spring Revolution: Students, higher education and political change. UCL Press, 2026.
• Cole, Tomas. Possessed Landscapes: Experiments in Conservation and Sovereignty in Southeast Myanmar. University of Washington Press, 2026.
• Aung Naing, ed. Assemblages of Myanmar: How Realities are Made Up. Chiang Mai: RCSD, 2026
• Passeri, Andrea. Myanmar’s Post-Coup Foreign Policy: Weathering Isolation and Sanctions. Taylor Francis, 2026

Journal Articles / Book Chapters

• Kyed, Helene Maria, et al. “Climate change as an arena of wartime political struggles: Greening of military rule and resistance in Myanmar.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2026.
• Khaing Phyu Htut, Halász Gábor, and Christopher Lawson. “Education Aid Coordination in Post‐Coup Myanmar.” Public Administration and Development (2026).
• Shimray, Ramachan, and Raile Ziipao. “Ethnography of Buffaloes: Herding Cattle from Kabaw Valley (Myanmar) to Naga Hills (India).” Journal of Borderlands Studies (2026): 1-19.
• Tin Maung Htwe. “Moralizing politics in the digital age: cancel culture, reactive attitudes, and democratic deliberation in Myanmar after the 2021 coup.” Contemporary Politics, 2026.
• Liljeblad, Jonathan, and Hsu Myat Noe Htet. “The status of Indigenous rights movements in Myanmar’s current conflict.” Australian Journal of Asian Law 27.2 (2026): 61-82.
• Pau, Pum Khan. “From Frontier Tribes to Borderlanders: The Making of Transborder Communities in the India–Burma Borderland.” in Gorky Chakraborty and Pum Khan Pau, eds India’s East and North East. Springer, 2026: pp 197-218.
• Long, M.K. “Rebirth and Perfection in Ordinary Lives: Biographical Writing and Vernacular Religious Ethics in Twentieth-Century Myanmar.” Journal of Religious Ethics. 2026.
• McCarthy, Gerard and Kyle Nyana. “Roadblocks, Relationality and Resilient Resistance in Post-coup Myanmar.” Development and Change, 2026.
• Proserpio, Licia, Brad Blitz, and Marie Lall. “Safe spaces not sanctuaries: ASEAN universities and the politics of displacement after Myanmar’s military coup.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2026): 1-17.
• May Aye Thiri and Joan Martinez-Alier. “Extractivism unleashed: Environmental justice and resistance in Myanmar.” The Extractive Industries and Society 27 (2026).
• Loong, Shona. “Decolonising Civil War: Warscapes as Relational Conjunctures in Post-Coup Myanmar.” Geopolitics, 2026.
• Hsu Myat Yadanar Thein and Matthew Walton. “Myanmar in 2024 and 2025: Military Stalemate Alongside Political Development.” Asian Survey 66.
• Zhao, Niu. “’The Border Turns Very Dry’: Shrinking Porosity and Local Responses on the China–Myanmar Border.” Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2026.
• Edwards, Michael. “When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’.” The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2026).
• Peng, Xu. “China’s Selective Influence in Myanmar’s Conflicts.” Current History 125.870 (2026): 133-138.
• Naw Pe The Law, Sofie Mortensen, and Carl Middleton. “A Critical Sister: Public Authority and the Role and Position of the Karen Women’s Organisation, Myanmar.” Gender & Society (2026): 08912432251415175.
• Etzold, Benjamin, Syeda Rozana Rashid, and Anas Ansar. “Gendered violence and conflict in the Bangladesh–Myanmar borderlands: (trans) local experiences and responses.” Gender, Place & Culture (2026): 1-20.
• Tin Maung Htwe. “Weapons of the weak in a border zone: How Myanmar’s exiled youth in Mae Sot forge political space and challenge the junta through everyday resistance.” Asian Journal of Social Science 54.2 (2026): 100246.
• van Schendel, Willem. “A hole in the British empire: The ‘Free Hills’ between India and Burma.” Modern Asian Studies 59.3 (2025): 589-617.
• Rippa, Alessandro. “When is a Frontier? Nostalgia and Aspirations at China’s Borderlands with Burma and Laos.” Comparative Studies in Society and History (2026): 1-25.
• Rhoads, Elizabeth. “Statutory Weakening and Bureaucratic Hurdles in the Implementation of Legal Pluralism in Myanmar.” Equality, Plurality and Personal Status Laws. Routledge (2026): 400-413.
• Sullivan, Meghan. “Considering Intermediaries as Relational Localizers: A Case Study of Localization in the Thai–Southeast Myanmar Border Humanitarian Response.” Public Administration and Development, 2026.
• Tsai, Hawng. “Exploring Kachin ethnic education in Northern Shan State, Myanmar.” Asian Ethnicity (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.
• Kim, Hyo‐sook, and David Potter. “Normative Convergence and Practical Divergence in Democracy Promotion: Japan’s and South Korea’s Responses to Autocratization in Myanmar.” Asian Politics & Policy 18.1 (2026).
• Lwin Cho Latt and Thidar Kyaw. “A Sino-Indian Game of ‘Go’in the Indo-Pacific: A Myanmar Perspective.” JARC-UY, 11.1 & 2, 2025.
• Lee, Rónán, and Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona. “War, Genocide, and Heritage in Myanmar.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2026. 1-21.
• Naung Naung. “Beyond Myanmar’s borders: the use of transnational repression and creation of new state spaces within ASEAN.” Ethnic and Racial Studies (2026).
• 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).
• Simpson, Adam, Tom Kean and Susan Park “Environmental activism and authoritarianism in Myanmar: Interrogating assemblages across three political epochs.” Environmental Politics, 2026.
• Loong, Shona. “Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld.” Development and Change (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).

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

• Mausert, Kirt. “The Office She Asked For Aung San Suu Kyi and the Structural Form of Civilian Complicity.” Yangon Informer. 27-May-2026
• Sophia Htwe. “Rakhine’s Changing Political Order and the Future of Rohingya Citizenship.” ANU Myanmar Research Center, 2026.
• Hnin Win Aung. “An Analysis of the Military Justice Mechanism of the National Unity Government: Focus on Procedural Dynamics, Forensic Challenges and Judicial Accountability.” ANU Myanmar Research Center, Working Paper 1/2026. [Burmese]
• Flynn, Gerard. “Asia’s longest free-flowing river contaminated by arsenic linked to Myanmar mines.” Mongabay. 20-Apr-20262 (2026): 351-363.
• “Everyday Peace and Rohingya Refugees” project, Plan International and Deakin University collaboration
• Nyi Nyi Kyaw and Sirada Khemanitthathai. “Student Migration from Myanmar to Thailand after the 2021 Coup.” Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung and The Nelson Mandela Centre, Chulalongkorn University, 2026.
• Schissler, Matt. “Unmaking Rohingya Statelessness: New Evidence and Opportunities in Myanmar’s Post-Coup Moment.” University of Melbourne Law School, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Working Paper Series, 2 April 2026.
• Matelski, Maaike. “Testimonies of Women Peace Ambassadors in Myanmar’s Shan State.” Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (2026).
• Heiduk, Felix. “Sham elections amid the war in Myanmar: Prospects for national stability and international cooperation.” No. 9/2026. SWP Comment, 2026.
• Collignon, Stefan. “Hierarchy as Legitimacy: The Holistic State and the Political Economy of Civil War in Myanmar,” Working Paper.