This is the Twitter presence of the Burma Studies Group, accessible to any student, scholar, or researcher of the region's many ethnic nationalities cultures
Joined March 2022
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Burma Studies BSG retweeted
9 Feb 2025
New essay by always insightful @Rgnhardliner examines “the fulcrums & lineaments, the tensions & contradictions” of Myanmar's anti-coup revolution, an historic “transition from occupied squares to armed struggle.” #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar chuangcn.org/2025/01/unhappy… via @chuangcn
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28 Jan 2025
New pubs 27-1-25 features @ctwittekind on speculation as subsistence in peri-urban Myanmar; Selth on Myanmar’s authoritarian intelligence apparatus; and Wu on Burmese exiles on the Thai border during this revolutionary era. burmastudiesgroup.com/recent…
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21 Jan 2025
Recent Pubs, 20 January 2025 burmastudiesgroup.com/2025/0… w/ Thein-Lemelson on contestations over the memory of political imprisonment; Faxon et al trace a “feminist counter-topography” of Myanmar’s wars; and Sengupta on activism, law, and Rohingya life in Bangladesh camps.
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16 Jan 2025
Recent Pubs, 13/1/25 burmastudiesgroup.com/2025/0… features @Stephen_Soe on how the coup enables labor exploitation in Thailand; Rellensmann w/ a book on the military regime’s appropriation of Buddhist sacred spaces; and Cerretani on transnational Rohingya social movements
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7 Jan 2025
Recent Pubs, 6 January 2025 burmastudiesgroup.com/2025/0… features articles on education in Myanmar: Wong on a decade of crisis and change for English teachers in Burma; Fretheim on faith-based higher ed; and Brown on higher ed in the coup context.
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1 Jan 2025
Happy (Gregorian) New Year: Start 2025 by checking out our pubs archive!
BSG has now been doing “New Pubs” for a while, and the pubs are piling up. We don’t claim to be exhaustive, but otoh, we have amassed quite a few! Take a look at our archive here: burmastudiesgroup.com/2021-b…
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25 Dec 2024
This week’s New Pubs features Ma Thida’s book on the Spring Revolution; Thame’s political theory on constituent power in that revolution; and Scham’s book, “An Archaeology of Persecuted Peoples,” which focuses on mountainous Asia and includes the Rohingya. burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/1…
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22 Dec 2024
This week’s New Pubs features all A names: Abb et al on the BRI in post-coup Myanmar; Aung Naing on emergent citizenship in the context of post-coup social protection; and Abd Jalil ( Hoffstaedter) on Malaysia schemes for registering Burmese refugees. burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/1…
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9 Dec 2024
This week’s New Pubs burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/1… w/ Huard’s “Calibrated Engagement”, a classic Burma village study; Chowdhooree and Ferdaus on Rohingya women’s entrepreneurship in Bhasan Char; and Tansey and Plunkett on ASEAN’s willingness to ignore the global anti-coup norm.
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6 Dec 2024
Event: Ferguson on Silver Screens and Golden Dreams film screening (9 Dec)
register: ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register…
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6 Dec 2024
Special New Pubs: “PopMyanmar” in JoBS 28.2 (Dec 2024) burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/1… (see next tweet for deets)…
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6 Dec 2024
with contributions from Alfred Scott and Rory Gill on the role of newspapers in the 1930 dockworker riot; Htay Htay Myint on Chinese literature in Myanmar; MacLachlan on music as a key dimension of courtship; and Chiarofonte on revolutionary music and Thingyan chants.
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Sana Aiyar joins @asia_york and respondent Jonathan Saha (@Jonathan_Saha) for their event, "Riot", examining the apotheosis of Hindu and Buddhist nationalism in Burma
Dec 4 @ 11 AM EST
tinyurl.com/9ndz3xse
#SoutheastAsia #Burma #Myanmar #Buddhism #Hindu #History
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Burma Studies BSG retweeted
3 Dec 2024
Burma studies q: Where is the ethnography of Rakhine contemporary identity and nationalism?* Doesn’t every other lumyo-gyi have several works, even conversations? …
(@TheNotoriusBSG)
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2 Dec 2024
New Pubs, 2 Dec: Special Diss Edition burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/1… w/ Dunford’s PhD diss on tea and Ta’ang, Mosberg’s on the politics of climate change adoption in Myanmar; Joseph’s master’s on Karen nation-building; and Vrieze’s diss on coalition building in the revolution.
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29 Nov 2024
Opportunity: BSG travel award for 2025 AAS conf burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/1… with preference given to junior Myanmar scholars
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28 Nov 2024
Recent Pubs, 25 Nov 2024 burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/1… features Debnath on armed insurgent groups in Myanmar; Romaniuk and Roul reading ARSA thru an Islamic insurgency framework; and Palmgren on migrant survival and economic development at the Thai/Myanmar border.
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Burma Studies BSG retweeted
12 Nov 2024
review of gorgeous and intense "Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring: Witness poems and essays from Burma/Myanmar (1988-2021)" finally out:
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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11 Nov 2024
New Pubs, 11 Nov 2024 burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/1… features two works of ethnomusicology – 1st Kiik on singing for environmentalism amid war; 2nd Greenwood on “sonic kinship” in post-coup Myanmar. Simion and Cheesman have a chapter on how Rule of Law brokers operate internationally.
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