Ek Khaale – Once Upon A Time
5 Minutes To ReadGreg Constantine shares stories about Rohingya educational achievement in Myanmar, from the photo project Ek Khaale, which documents Rohingya belonging in Myanmar.
Navigating Online Realms: The Digital Journey of Women Artists from Myanmar
6 Minutes To ReadShalini Perumal explores Myanmar women artists’ roles in times of political upheaval.
The Red Right Hand of Burmese Military Cinematic Propaganda
11 Minutes To ReadDavid Scott Mathieson asks, if this is the quality of military propaganda, how could they have stayed in power for so long?
Celebrating Manau in Northeast India
11 Minutes To ReadEmily Fishbein and Kelvin Sinpraw (pseudonym) show how a Kachin tradition defies borders.
Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers in Myanmar
6 Minutes To ReadA new special issue in Geopolitics (edited by Jasnea Sarma, Hilary Faxon and K.B. Roberts) highlights pre- and post-coup extractive economies and political geographies in Myanmar and beyond.
Scientific Technology as God’s Grace: Interpreting Nineteenth-Century America through Karen Baptists’ Eyes
14 Minutes To ReadHitomi Fujimura explores how Karen Baptists understood “modern knowledge” in nineteenth-century America.
“A Thousand Fires:” Anti-Imperialist Filmmaking in Magway’s Oilfields
10 Minutes To ReadCourtney Wittekind interviews filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky about his film, “A Thousand Fires,” set in Magway.
The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia, Arash Khazeni, University of California Press, 2020, 264 pages.
8 Minutes To ReadChristian Gilberti reviews a recent book on Persian travellers in Southeast Asia.
Ludu Daw Ahmar on women’s unpaid domestic labour
7 Minutes To ReadStephen Campbell translates Ludu Daw Ahmar’s feminist critique of the gendered division of labour.
‘Transfer of civilians’ as a ‘colonial wrong’ in international criminal law? Myanmar’s migration history as a hazardous argument
10 Minutes To ReadAxel Harneit-Sievers cautions against a problematic argument made in a new publication.
