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Author: matthewjwalton

Matthew J Walton is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Prior to that, he was the inaugural Aung San Suu Kyi Senior Research Fellow in Modern Burmese Studies at St Antony's College, University of Oxford and was a co-founder of Tea Circle. His research focuses on religion and politics in Southeast Asia, particularly Buddhism in Myanmar and Burmese Buddhist political thought. He also writes on ethnicity, conflict, and Burmese politics more generally.
  • Essay

Is this the end of Ma Ba Tha?

  • by matthewjwalton
  • Posted on December 2, 2019March 19, 2020

Matthew J Walton and Ma Khin Mar Mar Kyi warn that the sentiments underlying “Buddhist…

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Tea Circle: Goodbyes and Hellos

  • by matthewjwalton
  • Posted on October 30, 2018January 2, 2019

Matthew J Walton introduces Tea Circle’s move from Oxford to Toronto and reflects on the…

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  • Research Report

“Rowdy monks” or a crisis of monastic authority?

  • by matthewjwalton
  • Posted on March 7, 2018March 22, 2018

Matthew J Walton looks at Ma Ba Tha’s persistence in the light of criticisms.

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  • Call for Submission

Call for Submissions: SOAS-Oxford Graduate Student Workshop, “New Directions in Research on Myanmar”

  • by matthewjwalton
  • Posted on February 9, 2018

[Editor’s note: Please feel free to share this call widely, especially among graduate students from…

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A New Year at Tea Circle

  • by matthewjwalton
  • Posted on January 1, 2018December 31, 2017

At the start of 2018, we are more than two years into the experiment of…

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Political Communication and Transformative Citizenship in Myanmar (Part II)

  • by matthewjwalton
  • Posted on September 7, 2017September 7, 2017

Matthew J Walton highlights aspects of citizenship that are often ignored.

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Political Communication and Transformative Citizenship in Myanmar (Part I)

  • by matthewjwalton
  • Posted on September 6, 2017September 7, 2017

Matthew J Walton highlights aspects of citizenship that are often ignored.

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Myanmar’s Myths of Ethnic Unity

  • by matthewjwalton
  • Posted on July 13, 2017August 21, 2017

Matthew J Walton muses on the effects of misleading narratives of the independence era.

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Charles Wallace Burma Trust Visiting Fellowship: Call for Applications

  • by matthewjwalton
  • Posted on March 30, 2017March 30, 2017

 Apologies for the late posting to Tea Circle, but there’s still time to apply!

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  • News Analysis

Has the NLD learned nothing about ethnic concerns?

  • by matthewjwalton
  • Posted on March 29, 2017May 4, 2017

Matthew J Walton looks at the controversy over a bridge in Mon State.

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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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