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Category: Note from the Field

  • Note from the Field

The Military Coup Destroyed Independent Media in Myanmar, but in Rakhine State, It Wasn’t There to Begin With

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 13, 2021

Kyaw Hsan Hlaing and Emily Fishbein argue that Myanmar’s media climate is dire under the…

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  • Note from the Field

In(securing) Frontier Myanmar – Notes from Yangon (Part 2)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on March 17, 2020April 10, 2020

Jasnea Sarma speaks to security guards in Yangon about wider insecurities in the city.

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  • Note from the Field

In(securing) Frontier Myanmar – Notes from Yangon (Part 1)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on March 16, 2020April 10, 2020

Jasnea Sarma explores the contours of an emerging private security and surveillance culture in Yangon…

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  • Note from the Field

What’s in a name: Is the NLD building bridges or burning them?

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 14, 2017December 31, 2017

Cecile Medail examines voices of local people in Mon State on the power of symbolic…

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  • Note from the Field

Karen communities along the Sittaung River

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on May 5, 2017May 30, 2017

Ashley South visits rural Karen communities on holiday.

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(Photo Credit, Turning Tables Myanmar)
  • Note from the Field

Freestyle Utopia: Hip Hop and Healing in Meikhtila

  • by klarachristensen
  • Posted on December 19, 2016March 27, 2017

Klara Christensen recounts a cathartic inter-faith freestyle rap session in conflict-torn Meikhtila.

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  • Note from the Field

The Plight of Myanmar’s Forgotten Refugees (Part III)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on August 13, 2016April 20, 2017

Editor’s Note: The following is the third and final installment in a series of three posts written by Paul…

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  • Note from the Field

The Plight of Myanmar’s Forgotten Refugees (Part II)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on August 12, 2016April 3, 2017

Editor’s Note: The following post is the second in a series of three, written by Paul…

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  • Note from the Field

The Plight of Myanmar’s Forgotten Refugees (Part I)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on August 9, 2016March 31, 2017

Editor’s Note: What follows is the first of a series of posts written by Paul Eustice, reflecting on…

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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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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.

Recent Posts

  • The Military Coup Destroyed Independent Media in Myanmar, but in Rakhine State, It Wasn’t There to Begin With

    April 13, 2021
  • Critical Juncture: Being a Soldier’s Son in Burma’s Ongoing Crisis

    April 12, 2021
  • On the Perils of Disciplined Democracy

    March 30, 2021

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