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Category: Book Review

  • 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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Architectural Guide Yangon by Ben Bansal, Elliott Fox and Manuel Oka, DOM Publishers, Berlin, 2015, 399 pages.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on April 5, 2017September 29, 2018

Reshmi Banerjee loses herself in the Architectural Guide Yangon.

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Oh Su-Ann, editor Date of publication: 2016 Publisher: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
  • Book Review

Myanmar’s Mountain and Maritime Borderscapes – Local Practices, Boundary-Making and Figured Worlds edited by Su-Ann Oh, ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, 2016, 398 pages.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on March 15, 2017March 31, 2017

Reshmi Banerjee reviews Su-Ann Oh’s edited volume on Myanmar’s “borderscapes.”

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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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Democratisation of Myanmar by Nehginpao Kipgen, Routledge, New Delhi, 2016, 194 pages

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on January 26, 2017February 13, 2017

Reshmi Banerjee reviews Nehginpao Kipgen’s new book on Myanmar’s transition.

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Constructing Civil Society in Myanmar: Struggles for Local Change and Global Recognition by Maaike Matelski, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2016, Pages 318.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on December 14, 2016January 5, 2017

Reshmi Banerjee Reviews Maaike Matelski’s new PhD dissertation “Constructing Civil Society in Myanmar.”

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Learning, Migration and Intergenerational Relations – The Karen and the Gift of Education by Pia Jolliffe, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2016, 180 Pages.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on November 28, 2016December 19, 2016

Reshmi Banerjee reviews Pia Jolliffe’s new book on the Karen and the gift of education.

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Blood, Dreams and Gold – The Changing Face of Burma by Richard Cockett, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2015, 254 Pages.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on August 31, 2016December 19, 2016

Blood, Dreams and Gold – The Changing Face of Burma by Richard Cockett, Yale University…

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Understanding Reform in Myanmar: People and Society in the Wake of Military Rule by Marie Lall, C. Hurst and Co (Publishers) Ltd, London, 2016, 346 Pages.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on May 14, 2016December 19, 2016

Myanmar today is very much shaped by responsible civil society which has slowly but surely…

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Opposing the Rule of Law-How Myanmar’s Courts Make Law and Order (Nick Cheesman, 2015)

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on March 15, 2016December 19, 2016

Book Review: Opposing the Rule of Law-How Myanmar’s Courts Make Law and Order by Nick…

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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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