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  • Book Review

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, 2020December 17, 2020

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, 2020July 3, 2020

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

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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.

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on January 9, 2020April 24, 2020

Chu May Paing reviews a new book on narratives of siege and fear in three…

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The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma by Ward Keeler, Honolulu, University of Hawaii’ Press, 2017. 331 pages.

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 27, 2019April 2, 2020

Khin Mar Mar Kyi reviews Ward Keeler’s book on gender and Burmese Buddhist practices in…

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Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change, edited by Lisa Brooten, Jane Madlyn McElhone and Gayathry Venkiteswaran, ISEAS, Singapore, 2019, 407 Pages.

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 4, 2019April 2, 2020

Daniel Wood reviews how Myanmar Media in Transition unravels legacies of authoritarianism, carving new spaces for dissent.

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Myanmar’s ‘Rohingya’ Conflict by Anthony Ware and Costas Laoutides. London: Hurst, 2018, 224pp.

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on March 20, 2019April 2, 2020

Elliott Prasse-Freeman argues that a new book sacrifices analytical rigor for antipolitical “objectivity.”

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Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar edited by Adam Simpson, Nicholas Farrelly and Ian Holliday, Routledge, 2018, 452 pages.

  • by maelraynaud
  • Posted on March 7, 2019April 24, 2020

Mael Raynaud reviews a new resource for scholarship on Myanmar.

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The Other Ladies of Myanmar by Jennifer Rigby, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, Pages 127.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on November 28, 2018February 3, 2019

Reshmi Banerjee reviews Jennifer Rigby’s telling of twelve remarkable Myanmar women and their life histories.…

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Opening up Hidden Burma: Journeys With – And Without – Author Dr Bob Percival, edited by Keith Lyons, et.al, Tenko Press, 2018, 230 pages.

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on October 8, 2018April 24, 2020

Elliott Fox enjoys this series of tributes to a much-missed friend of Yangon.

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Bagan And The World – Early Myanmar and Its Global Connections edited by Goh Geok Yian, John N. Miksic and Michael Aung-Thwin, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, 230 Pages.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on September 10, 2018April 2, 2020

Reshmi Banerjee explores the trans-border relevance of the archaeological site of Bagan.

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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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