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Category: Essay

  • Essay

Yangon’s Housing Inequality during the Covid-19 Pandemic

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on January 13, 2021January 13, 2021

Khine Yin Htun explores how social distancing highlights Yangon’s current inadequate housing conditions.

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  • Essay

Political Economy Analysis of the Ride-Hailing Platforms in Yangon: The Case of Grab

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on January 11, 2021January 11, 2021

Thu Htet explores the political economy of ride hailing platforms in the taxi industry.

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  • Essay

Motivated but Overstretched: Job Satisfaction among Myanmar’s University Teachers

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on December 17, 2020January 11, 2021

Zue Wadi Htun explores the challenges faced by university teachers and some possible solutions.

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  • Essay

Increasing Financial Security for Myanmar Migrant Workers Through Village Savings and Loans Associations

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on December 7, 2020December 7, 2020

Wayland Blue explores the potential of community-based financial services for poverty alleviation.

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  • Essay

Remembering the Late Professor Sai Aung Tun (1932-2020): A Reflection on His Contributions to the Tai Shan Communities

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on December 3, 2020December 2, 2020

Jotika Khur-Yearn discusses the legacy of Professor Sai Aung Tun’s work on Tai Shan communities.

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  • Essay

Travellers Understanding Myanmar

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 23, 2020November 19, 2020

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

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  • Essay

Race in Myanmar: Rigid Hierarchies, Blurred Boundaries and the Human Cost of Racism

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 12, 2020November 13, 2020

Building on a rich discussion, Indrė Balčaitė explores the everyday politics of race in Myanmar.

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  • Essay

Education, the Youth and the Elections

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on October 27, 2020October 25, 2020

Day Wi and Zoe Matthews explore the post-election approaches needed for political leaders to honour…

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  • Essay

Advancing the Rights of Women Workers through the 2020 Elections

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on October 15, 2020October 15, 2020

Seik Nyan and Ye Yint Khant Maung explore the difficulties of women workers and discuss…

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  • COVID-19 and Myanmar

COVID-19 and Youth Climate Change Activism in Myanmar

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on September 8, 2020September 8, 2020

Pan Nu Zaw discusses the elusiveness of youth climate change activism and proposes steps to…

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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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