Myanmar Old coup, new media in Myanmar Military rule in Myanmar started in 1962 with the first coup. From that time, successive military regimes launched a series of measures aimed at cultural homogenisation and the marginalisation of ⋙
Field Missing Pieces in a Weapons Seizure in Northern Shan State On the 22nd November 2019 press releases started circulating on Myanmar social media and news outlets concerning what was defined as one of the largest weapons seizures carried out by ⋙
Field From the borderlands to the centre: land travelling in Myanmar In the early 2000s, with an article entitled “Geographies of Knowing, Geographies of Ignorance”, Willem van Schendel explored how areas are imagined and how knowledge constructs them into “heartlands” and ⋙
Field What comes first, disarmament or peace? Insights from fieldwork in Myanmar As the Myanmar peace process initiated by Thein Sein’s government in 2011 moves into its eighth year, two main contentious issues have always been at its core. First, there ⋙
Debate Mutually Constitutive State-building Processes in the Borderlands of Myanmar Myanmar arguably hosts one of the largest concentrations of state-repelling ethnic minorities. Nevertheless, with the gradual occupation, co-optation and articulation of physical and social spaces and structures by central authorities, ⋙
Debate The Unbearable Lightness of R2P: The Rohingya Case The sterile current debate about the ‘responsibility to protect’ the Rohingya minority highlights one of the aporias of the contemporary national politico-legal frameworks: the rupture between citizenship and nude humanness. ⋙
