Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: David’s Response: Taking the Conversation Forward (Part 4)
9 Minutes To ReadDavid Brenner discusses the synergies and productive tensions between different perspectives on Rebel Politics.
Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Burma’s Civil War Is the Struggle of Political and Social Movements (Part 3)
4 Minutes To ReadKai Htang Lashi comments on Rebel Politics from the perspective of a Kachin activist.
Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Peace Inheres in Social Relations Formed during War (Part 2)
7 Minutes To ReadShona Loong discusses what Rebel Politics tells us about peacebuilding among Karen communities.
Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Above All, Rebels Are Political (Part 1)
4 Minutes To ReadLee Jones discusses the merits of Rebel Politics in light of wider trends in the fields of Myanmar Studies and Conflict Studies. This is Part One of a four-part commentary on […]
Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Introduction
2 Minutes To ReadThis is an introduction to a four-part commentary on David Brenner’s monograph, Rebel Politics: A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar’s Borderlands (Cornell University Press, 2019), in which the authors […]
New Open Access Database of Myanmar Manuscripts and Textual Artefacts at the University of Toronto
4 Minutes To ReadTony Scott introduces an important new digital archive of Myanmar manuscripts.
Explorers, Rebels and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Myanmar-China Railway
12 Minutes To ReadFrances O’Morchoe details the lesser-known history of the Myanmar-China railway in nineteenth-century Burma.
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.
7 Minutes To ReadChu May Paing reviews a new book on narratives of siege and fear in three cities of Myanmar.
Foreigners, Fighting and Phaleristics: Military Medals in British Burma
14 Minutes To ReadAndrew Selth assesses the value of military medals to researchers interested in Burma’s modern history. It has been said that a country’s culture is a window unto its soul. With this […]
The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma by Ward Keeler, Honolulu, University of Hawaii’ Press, 2017. 331 pages.
6 Minutes To ReadKhin Mar Mar Kyi reviews Ward Keeler’s book on gender and Burmese Buddhist practices in Myanmar.