Journals dedicated to Burma topics

Journal of Burma Studies recent issues:

• 2026 (30.1): Special Issue: on Language Contact in Burma” edited by Patrick McCormick, with contributions from Müller on language in Kachin; Ring on Khasian languages of Northeast Asia; McCormick on Dawei and its relation to Burmese; and Jenny on the role of Shan in the Burma zone.
• 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.

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:

• Breen, Michael and Soe Htet, eds. Federal Design in Myanmar: A Pathway for Unity, Stability, and Inclusivity. Springer, 2026.
• Ma Cheria. “Convenience and Precarity: Labour Rights Violations of Migrant Workers in Small, Unregistered, House-based Garment Factories in Mae Sot.” MAP Foundation, July 2026.
• Saruya, Rachelle. 2026. “Education in the Margins: Learning Burmese to Learn Buddhism in Contemporary Myanmar and Beyond.” Contemporary Buddhism, 1–20.

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

Books

• Medail, Cecile, Samuel Hmung, Morten Pedersen, eds. Myanmar Rises: the Spring Revolution, ISEAS, 2026.
• Coderey, Céline. The Power of Remainder: Politics and Poetics of Healing in Buddhist Myanmar. University of Hawaii Press, 2026.
• Rahman, Mahbubur, Abdur Rob Khan, and Md Rizwanul Islam, eds. Rohingya Repatriation: An Elusive or Achievable Agenda?. Taylor & Francis, 2026.
• Mon Mon Myat. Aung San Suu Kyi: The Realities of Power in Burma’s Authoritarian Legacy. Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 2026.
• Faxon, Hilary. Surviving the State: Land and Democracy in Myanmar. Duke University Press, 2026.

Journal Articles / Book Chapters

• Ei Thin Zar and Jennifer Otting. “The Teaching of Civil Disobedience through Letters from Burma’s/Myanmar’s Generation Z.” Education About Asia 29.1 (2026).
• Deng, Beiyin. “Engendering Magnificence: Marble Buddhist Image Polishing and Women’s Religious Labor in Contemporary Myanmar.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2026)
• Sánchez Molano, Eduardo. “Crossing Boundaries in Myanmar: Strategies of Boundary‐Making vis‐à‐vis Nativist Citizenship Imaginary.” Population, Space and Place, 2026.
• Neil, Tony, and Saw Day Chit Htoo. “Beyond the Rebel ‘Territorial Trap’: Governing Armed Sovereign Formations in Eastern Myanmar.” Development and Change 57.3 (2026): 441-466.
• Buchanan, John. 2026. “Opium Pathways: Mountains, Mules and Extraction in Myanmar’s Shan State.” Development and Change 57(3): 496–521.
• Liljeblad, Jonathan. “The Prospects for Future Federalism in Myanmar’s Current Conflict” in Federal Theories and Practices: Dynamics of Federalism and Democracy in South and Southeast Asia: 241.
• McCarthy, Gerard, and Kyle Nyana. “Roadblocks, Relationality and Resilient Resistance in Post‐coup Myanmar.” Development and Change 57.3 (2026): 624-646.
• Brown, Clare Therese, Minara Islam, and Showkutara Chocho. “International ‘Victim-centred’Justice and the Crisis of Legitimacy: Who Speaks on Behalf of Rohingya Women?” Progress in Development Studies (2026).
• Brown, Clare Therese, Minara Islam, and Showkutara Chocho. “International ‘Victim-centred’Justice and the Crisis of Legitimacy: Who Speaks on Behalf of Rohingya Women?” Progress in Development Studies (2026).
• Tin Maung Htwe. “Emotional resistance and identity formation in youth in post-coup Myanmar revolutionary landscape.” International Review of Sociology, 2026.
• Lubina, Michał. “What could have gone wrong?: an anti-communist in a postcolonial country at the beginning of the Cold War: Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s trip to Burma.” RES GESTAE. CZASOPISMO HISTORYCZNE 22 (2026).
• Htee Thaw Thaw et al. “Myanmar Migration to Thailand Post-2021 Coup: Legal Status, Labor Turnover, and Socio-Economic Implications.” Economies 14.8 (2026): 327.
• Zhang, Fangliang, and Tian Zhang. “Labelling Rohingya across borders: differential governance, label conversion, and mobility-induced stratification.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2026): 1-21.
• Lee, Charity. “Language education for Rohingya children in Southeast Asia.” Language Use in Southeast Asia. Routledge 2026, pp 65-78.
• Kakati, Aditya. “Gangsters or guerrillas? Mobilizing Naga violence-workers after global war in the India–Myanmar borderlands, 1945–1975.” Critical Military Studies (2026): 1-21.
• Frydenlund, Shae and Elizabeth Cullen Dunn. “Violent Separations: Refugee Workers, Racial Capitalism, and the Production of Debility.” Antipode, 2026.
• Chao, Chung-chi. “The Dragon on the White Elephant: Two “Chinas” Fracture Myanmar’s State-Building in the Cold War.” International Journal of China Studies 17.1 (2026): 135-142.
• Bauer, Georg. “A Hybrid Generation: The Tsao-hpas of Late Colonial Burma between Political Ethnicity and Shan Nationalism.” ASEAS-Advances in Southeast Asian Studies 19.2 (2026).
• Pe The Law and Carl Middleton. “Territorialization-from-below: Community-rooted strategies towards public authority in Kamoethway, Myanmar.” Journal of Political Ecology 33.1 (2026).
• Pum Za Mang. “Christians in Burma under Military Rule.” Currents in Theology and Mission 53.3 (2026).
• Zhou, Zeqi, Zhiding Hu, and Luping Zhao. “The Tyranny of Distance: Geoeconomic Power Competition Between China and Japan in Myanmar.” China Report (2026)
• Haines, Rebecca, Elisabeth Olivius, Khin Khin Mra, and Jenny Hedström. “(Un)desirable women: The production of the ideal Women, Peace and Security agenda participant in Myanmar” Review of International Studies, 2026.
• Kakati, Aditya Kiran. “Worlds of War: Zo Memorialisation of Global and ‘Total Wars’ in the Decolonising India–Burma (Myanmar) Borderlands.” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (2026): 1-34.
• Fumagalli, Matteo. “Myanmar 2025: the military eschews off-ramping and fights back, as the polycrisis carries on.” Asia Maior (2026): 1-21.
• Verma, Monika. “From hospitality to hostility: the evolutionary securitisation of Rohingya migration in Bangladesh.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2026): 1-25.
• 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).
• 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.

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

• Ish, Rakkor and Zo Bilay. “Pyusawhti. Civil War, Militarism and Buddhism in Central Myanmar.” LSE Southeast Asia Center, Working Paper Series Paper #13. August 2026Ish, Rakkor and Zo Bilay. “Pyusawhti. Civil War, Militarism and Buddhism in Central Myanmar.” LSE Southeast Asia Center, Working Paper Series Paper #13. August 2026
• Burma Coup Resistance Notes. “At last: A Foreigner’s Guide to Burma’s Opposition Organizations.” Substack. 26 July 2026.
• Hassanien, Nora, Manny Maung, and Dustin Barter. “Oppression, liberation and humanitarianism in Palestine, Myanmar and Sudan.” HPG report, ODI Global (2026).
• Metro, Rose and Min Layi Chan. “Be a bee, not a mosquito: Research ethics on the Thai-Myanmar border.” Tea Circle 8-June-2026.Aung, Geoffrey Rathgeb. “The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of Myanmar.” Verso Blog
• 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.