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Category: Opinion

  • Essay

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

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 12, 2020March 8, 2022

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

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  • Opinion

Ethnocentric Narratives of Identity and its role in Peace and Conflict Management

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 3, 2020March 8, 2022

Bernard Minn discusses the role of ethnocentrism in peace agreements and the refugee crisis.

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  • Opinion

Myanmar’s Search for Normalcy in an Abnormal World

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on September 17, 2020March 9, 2022

Matthew Arnold discusses the importance of seeing Myanmar as a country undergoing normalization.

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  • Opinion

Aphyaw Hsayar: Myanmar’s Mix Masters

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on September 14, 2020March 9, 2022

Dinith Adikari and Michael Dunford explore the role of the aphyaw hsayar and the challenges they face in today’s tea market.

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  • Essay

Decolonial Worldmaking, Burmese Independence, and the Karen Struggle

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on August 13, 2020March 9, 2022

Shona Loong uses world histories of anti-colonial nationalism to reexamine the Karen struggle.

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  • Opinion

A Hidden Heart in House Arrest

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on July 30, 2020March 9, 2022

Van Lal Thuam Lian @ Thuama imagines the feelings in Aung San Suu Kyi’s innermost being.

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  • Opinion

Maps to Another Nation: Pentecostal Journeys on the Yangon Bus

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 21, 2020March 9, 2022

Michael Edwards asks how to navigate Yangon using a transit map of Seoul. 

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  • Book Review

Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: David’s Response: Taking the Conversation Forward (Part 4)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 17, 2020June 24, 2020

David Brenner discusses the synergies and productive tensions between different perspectives on Rebel Politics.

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Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Burma’s Civil War Is the Struggle of Political and Social Movements (Part 3)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 16, 2020June 24, 2020

Kai Htang Lashi comments on Rebel Politics from the perspective of a Kachin activist.

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  • Opinion

Challenging the distortion of influential monks?

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on December 4, 2019January 20, 2022

Lynn Htwe looks at responses to Sitagu Sayadaw’s comments on Pagan’s recognition by UNESCO.

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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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