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Author: Courtney Wittekind

Courtney T. Wittekind is currently a PhD student in Social Anthropology at Harvard University. She completed a M.Phil at the University of Oxford where she studied as a member of St Antony’s College and Rhodes Scholar. Her current research centers on questions of transition, place, and the unseen in Myanmar’s Shan State.
  • Book Review

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

  • by Courtney Wittekind
  • Posted on July 9, 2018September 6, 2018

Courtney T. Wittekind reviews Stephen Campbell’s account of migrant labor in Thailand.

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  • Poetry

Reflecting on the Saffron Revolution, In Poetry and Prose

  • by Courtney Wittekind
  • Posted on September 20, 2017September 20, 2017

Courtney Wittekind talks with poet Khet Mar about her poem, “The Wound.”

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  • Book Review

Buddhism, Politics, and Political Thought in Myanmar by Matthew J. Walton, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2017. 226 pages.

  • by Courtney Wittekind
  • Posted on June 2, 2017April 2, 2020

Courtney Wittekind reviews a new book on Buddhism and political thought by Matthew J. Walton.

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  • Book Review

War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar: The Kachin Ceasefire, 1994-2011, edited by Mandy Sadan, NIAS Press, Copenhagen. 2016. 540 pages.

  • by Courtney Wittekind
  • Posted on March 2, 2017April 24, 2020

Courtney T. Wittekind reflects on the nuanced framing of war and peace offered by a new edited volume.

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  • Research Report

Transition and its Temporalities

  • by Courtney Wittekind
  • Posted on January 10, 2017January 18, 2017

Courtney Wittekind asks whether land claims might be calls for a re-orientation of time.

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  • Note from the Field

On Names and Knowledge

  • by Courtney Wittekind
  • Posted on May 29, 2016June 2, 2016

In the back of a small notebook, following pages of field notes and hastily- scrawled…

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  • Essay

Signs of Change, Spaces of Transition

  • by Courtney Wittekind
  • Posted on May 11, 2016

In Yangon, Myanmar’s economic center and largest city, signs of “change” aren’t hard to spot.…

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  • Note from the Field

An Uncertain ‘Progress’

  • by Courtney Wittekind
  • Posted on November 7, 2015November 20, 2015

When Hnin Hnin (name changed for her protection), a 26-year old from Myanmar’s Kayah State,…

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  • Education

Welcome to the Tea Circle

  • by Courtney Wittekind
  • Posted on November 4, 2015January 11, 2022

Welcome to the Tea Circle, a new forum for emerging research on Burma/Myanmar, hosted by…

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Series: COVID-19 and Myanmar

ကိုဗစ်-၁၉  နှင့် မြန်မာရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ လူငယ်တို့၏  တက်ကြွ လှုပ်ရှား မှု

COVID-19 Policy Response Needs and Opportunities

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

Tea Circle’s Book Reviews

The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia, Arash Khazeni, University of California Press, 2020, 264 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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