New Pubs, 11 Nov 2024 burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/11/10/rec… features two works of ethnomusicology – 1st Kiik on singing for environmentalism amid war; 2nd Greenwood on “sonic kinship” in post-coup Myanmar. Simion and Cheesman have a chapter on how Rule of Law brokers operate internationally.

Recent Pubs, 25 Nov 2024 burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/11/24/rec… features Debnath on armed insurgent groups in Myanmar; Romaniuk and Roul reading ARSA thru an Islamic insurgency framework; and Palmgren on migrant survival and economic development at the Thai/Myanmar border.

Opportunity: BSG travel award for 2025 AAS conf burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/11/28/opp… with preference given to junior Myanmar scholars

Sana Aiyar joins YCAR and respondent Jonathan Saha (Jonathan Saha) for their event, "Riot", examining the apotheosis of Hindu and Buddhist nationalism in Burma Dec 4 @ 11 AM EST tinyurl.com/9ndz3xse #SoutheastAsia #Burma #Myanmar #Buddhism #Hindu #History

New Pubs, 2 Dec: Special Diss Edition burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/12/01/rec… w/ Dunford’s PhD diss on tea and Ta’ang, Mosberg’s on the politics of climate change adoption in Myanmar; Joseph’s master’s on Karen nation-building; and Vrieze’s diss on coalition building in the revolution.

Event: Ferguson on Silver Screens and Golden Dreams + film screening (9 Dec) register: ubc.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

In Memoriam: David I. Steinberg (1928-2024) burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/12/07/in-…

This week’s New Pubs burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/12/08/rec… w/ Huard’s “Calibrated Engagement”, 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.

This week’s New Pubs features all A names: 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 (+ Hoffstaedter) on Malaysia schemes for registering Burmese refugees. burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/12/15/rec…

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. burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/12/22/rec…

Happy (Gregorian) New Year: Start 2025 by checking out our pubs archive! BSG has now been doing “New Pubs” for a while, and the pubs are piling up. We don’t claim to be exhaustive, but otoh, we have amassed quite a few! Take a look at our archive here: burmastudiesgroup.com/2021-burma-stu…

Recent Pubs, 6 January 2025 burmastudiesgroup.com/2025/01/05/rec… features articles on education in Myanmar: Wong on a decade of crisis and change for English teachers in Burma; Fretheim on faith-based higher ed; and Brown on higher ed in the coup context.

Recent Pubs, 13/1/25 burmastudiesgroup.com/2025/01/12/rec… features Stephen Campbell on how the coup enables labor exploitation in Thailand; Rellensmann w/ a book on the military regime’s appropriation of Buddhist sacred spaces; and Cerretani on transnational Rohingya social movements

Recent Pubs, 20 January 2025 burmastudiesgroup.com/2025/01/19/rec… w/ Thein-Lemelson on contestations over the memory of political imprisonment; Faxon et al trace a “feminist counter-topography” of Myanmar’s wars; and Sengupta on activism, law, and Rohingya life in Bangladesh camps.

New pubs 27-1-25 features Courtney T. Wittekind on speculation as subsistence in peri-urban Myanmar; Selth on Myanmar’s authoritarian intelligence apparatus; and Wu on Burmese exiles on the Thai border during this revolutionary era. burmastudiesgroup.com/recent-publica…

New essay by always insightful Geoff Aung examines “the fulcrums & lineaments, the tensions & contradictions” of Myanmar's anti-coup revolution, an historic “transition from occupied squares to armed struggle.” #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar chuangcn.org/2025/01/unhapp… via Chuang