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Category: Arts and Literature

  • Arts and Literature

Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers in Myanmar

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on March 31, 2022March 31, 2022

A new special issue in Geopolitics (edited by Jasnea Sarma, Hilary Faxon and K.B. Roberts) highlights pre- and post-coup extractive economies and political geographies in Myanmar and beyond.

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Scientific Technology as God’s Grace: Interpreting Nineteenth-Century America through Karen Baptists’ Eyes

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on March 14, 2022March 14, 2022

Hitomi Fujimura explores how Karen Baptists understood “modern knowledge” in nineteenth-century America.

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“A Thousand Fires:” Anti-Imperialist Filmmaking in Magway’s Oilfields

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on December 7, 2021January 11, 2022

Courtney Wittekind interviews filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky about his film, “A Thousand Fires,” set in Magway

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Travellers Understanding Myanmar

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 23, 2020February 24, 2022

Bertie Alexander Lawson considers how travellers struggle to understand Myanmar, through the lens of novels and travelogues.

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Burma: Food, Family and Conflict by Bridget Anderson and Stephen Anderson, Ma Khin Markets, S.L, 2018, 256 Pages.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on August 25, 2020March 9, 2022

Reshmi Banerjee reviews an engrossing tale of family history, national politics and regional cuisine

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

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on June 29, 2020March 9, 2022

Keith Lyons reviews a book that offers insights into a Myanmar beyond the tourist gaze.

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

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on May 18, 2020March 9, 2022

David Scott Mathieson reviews Andrew Selth’s 2019 book on Myanmar’s notorious intelligence services.

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

  • by izzyrhoads
  • Posted on April 22, 2020March 9, 2022

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

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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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