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Month: April 2020

  • Essay

Towards a True Multilingual State

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 28, 2020July 15, 2020

Ewan Cameron argues that we need to see ethnic languages as resources rather than problems…

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  • Book Review

Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar by Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung. Madison: Wisconsin University Press, 2019, 320 pages.

  • by izzyrhoads
  • Posted on April 22, 2020July 1, 2020

Elizabeth Rhoads reviews Ardeth Thawngmung’s 2019 book on the politics of quotidian survival strategies in…

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  • Essay

Maps to Another Nation: Pentecostal Journeys on the Yangon Bus

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 21, 2020July 2, 2020

Michael Edwards asks how to navigate Yangon using a transit map of Seoul.    

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  • Book Review

Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: David’s Response: Taking the Conversation Forward (Part 4)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 17, 2020June 24, 2020

David Brenner discusses the synergies and productive tensions between different perspectives on Rebel Politics.

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  • Book Review

Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Burma’s Civil War Is the Struggle of Political and Social Movements (Part 3)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 16, 2020June 24, 2020

Kai Htang Lashi comments on Rebel Politics from the perspective of a Kachin activist.

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  • Book Review

Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Peace Inheres in Social Relations Formed during War (Part 2)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 15, 2020June 24, 2020

Shona Loong discusses what Rebel Politics tells us about peacebuilding among Karen communities.

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  • Book Review

Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Above All, Rebels Are Political (Part 1)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 14, 2020June 24, 2020

Lee Jones discusses the merits of Rebel Politics in light of wider trends in the…

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  • Book Review

Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Introduction

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 14, 2020June 24, 2020

This is an introduction to a four-part commentary on David Brenner’s monograph, Rebel Politics: A…

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  • COVID-19 and Myanmar

COVID-19 Policy Response Needs and Opportunities

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 10, 2020May 18, 2020

Aung Hein and Paul Minoletti’s recent report on the ongoing COVID-19 crisis highlights some policy recommendations…

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  • COVID-19 and Myanmar

Wavering at the Turning Point: Myanmar’s response to COVID-19 in March 2020

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 9, 2020May 18, 2020

Nicole Tu-Maung and Matthew Venker trace state narratives about COVID-19 in Myanmar at a critical…

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Series: COVID-19 and Myanmar

COVID-19 and Youth Climate Change Activism in Myanmar

A Peep over the Border

COVID-19 and Food Security in Chin State: A Chance to Reform the Status Quo 

The COVID-19 Situation in Myanmar Prisons: Many Grave Risks and a New Opportunity?

A Preliminary Impact Assessment of COVID-19 on the Mon State Economy: Pathways to Recovery

COVID-19 Weaponized Against Unionists in Myanmar

What can recovery after Cyclone Nargis tell us about Myanmar’s resilience to COVID-19?

Myanmar Needs to Redefine Its COVID-19 Stimulus Package

Women and COVID-19 in Myanmar

COVID-19, Political Movements and the Need to Re-examine Racial Thinking for Future Change

Tea Circle’s Book Reviews

In Search of Myanmar: Travels through a Changing Land by James Fable, Independently published, 2019, 422 pages.

Secrets and Power in Myanmar: Intelligence and the Fall of General Khin Nyunt, By Andrew Selth, Singapore, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2019, 248 pp.

Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar by Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung. Madison: Wisconsin University Press, 2019, 320 pages.

Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Introduction

Myanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim Crisis: Rohingya, Arakanese, and Burmese Narratives of Siege and Fear, by John Holt. Honolulu, Hawaii. University of Hawaii Press, 2019. 301pp.

Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change, edited by Lisa Brooten, Jane Madlyn McElhone and Gayathry Venkiteswaran, ISEAS, Singapore, 2019, 407 Pages.

Myanmar Transformed? People, Places and Politics edited by Justine Chambers, Gerard McCarthy, Nicholas Farrelly and Chit Win, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, 333 Pages.

Border Capitalism, Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone by Stephen Campbell. Cornell University Press, 2018. 206 Pages.

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