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‘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.

Tags: Book Review, colonialism, development, human rights, international law, law, Rohingya

April 19, 2021

Burma: Food, Family and Conflict by Bridget Anderson and Stephen Anderson, Ma Khin Markets, S.L, 2018, 256 Pages.

5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews an engrossing tale of family history, national politics and regional cuisine.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, discrimination, history, nationalism

August 25, 2020

In Search of Myanmar: Travels through a Changing Land by James Fable, Independently published, 2019, 422 pages.

4 Minutes To ReadKeith Lyons reviews a book that offers insights into a Myanmar beyond the tourist gaze.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, colonialism, tourism, travel, travelogue

June 29, 2020

Secrets and Power in Myanmar: Intelligence and the Fall of General Khin Nyunt, By Andrew Selth, Singapore, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2019, 248 pp.

10 Minutes To ReadDavid Scott Mathieson reviews Andrew Selth’s 2019 book on Myanmar’s notorious intelligence services.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, ceasefire, prison, security, Tatmadaw, United Wa State Army (UWSA)

May 18, 2020

Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar by Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung. Madison: Wisconsin University Press, 2019, 320 pages.

5 Minutes To ReadElizabeth Rhoads reviews Ardeth Thawngmung’s 2019 book on the politics of quotidian survival strategies in Myanmar.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, economy, livelihoods

April 22, 2020

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.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Arakan, Book Review, Islam, Mandalay, Rakhine, Rohingya, Yangon

January 9, 2020

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.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, buddhism, gender, masculinity

November 27, 2019

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

9 Minutes To ReadDaniel Wood reviews how Myanmar Media in Transition unravels legacies of authoritarianism, carving new spaces for dissent.

Arts & Literature

Tags: authoritarianism, Book Review, censorship, journalism, media, social media

November 4, 2019

Myanmar Transformed? People, Places and Politics edited by Justine Chambers, Gerard McCarthy, Nicholas Farrelly and Chit Win, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, 333 Pages.

6 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews a new anthology on Myanmar’s political transition and governance. Myanmar’s transformation from a military dictatorship to a relatively democratic form of governance has been under scrutiny for […]

Tags: Book Review, borderlands, ethnicity, governance, land rights, peace process, transition

July 17, 2019

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

6 Minutes To ReadElliott Prasse-Freeman argues that a new book sacrifices analytical rigor for antipolitical “objectivity.”

Tags: Book Review, diaspora, Rakhine, Rohingya

March 20, 2019

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

11 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud reviews a new resource for scholarship on Myanmar.

Tags: agriculture, Book Review, environment, ethnic languages, farmers, gender, governance, hate speech, political economy, technology

March 7, 2019

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

5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Jennifer Rigby’s telling of twelve remarkable Myanmar women and their life histories.

Arts & Literature

Tags: art, Book Review, freedom of expression, gender, women

November 28, 2018

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

3 Minutes To ReadElliott Fox enjoys this series of tributes to a much-missed friend of Yangon.

Arts & Literature

Tags: architecture, Book Review, tea shops, Yangon

October 8, 2018

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.

5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee explores the trans-border relevance of the archaeological site of Bagan.

Arts & Literature

Tags: archaeology, Bagan, Book Review, Manipur, Mrauk U

September 10, 2018

The Cell, Exile, and the New Burma: A Political Education amid the Unfinished Journey toward Democracy by Kyaw Zwa Moe, Yangon, New Myanmar Publishing House, 2018, 245 Pages

6 Minutes To ReadDavid Scott Mathieson explores the new collection of essays by noted journalist Kyaw Zwa Moe, an emotional palimpsest of lives lived under military rule.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, Burma, political prisoners, prison

August 27, 2018

Border Capitalism, Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone by Stephen Campbell. Cornell University Press, 2018. 206 Pages.

8 Minutes To ReadCourtney T. Wittekind reviews Stephen Campbell’s account of migrant labor in Thailand.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, capitalism, labour, labour rights, Mae Sot, migrant workers, Thai-Burma border, workers' rights

July 9, 2018

Reporting the Retreat: War Correspondents in Burma by Philip Woods, London, Hurst & Co., 2016, 206 Pages, ISBN: 9781849047173

4 Minutes To ReadGiulia Garbagni reviews a nuanced account of the challenges and contradictions of wartime journalism.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, history, journalism

June 11, 2018

Burma, Kipling and Western Music – The Riff from Mandalay by Andrew Selth, New York, Routledge, 2017, 293 Pages.

5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Andrew Selth’s book on popular music in colonial Burma.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, history, music

May 15, 2018

Hidden Words, Hidden Worlds – Contemporary Short Stories from Myanmar, Lucas Stewart and Alfred Birnbaum (eds.), British Council, London, 2017. Pp. 153.

5 Minutes To ReadRichard Roewer reviews a new collection of short stories from Myanmar writers.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, fiction, translation

April 9, 2018

Citizenship in Myanmar: Ways of Being in and from Burma, Edited by Ashley South and Marie Lall, Singapore: ISEAS, 2018, 316 pages

9 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud reviews a new edited volume on the contentious issues surrounding citizenship in Myanmar.

Tags: Book Review, citizenship, ethnicity, human rights

March 12, 2018

Miss Burma. Charmaine Craig. 2017. 355 pp. Grove Press.

5 Minutes To ReadLuke Corbin reviews Charmaine Craig’s new book, “Miss Burma.”

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, Karen

October 2, 2017

Energy, Governance and Security in Thailand and Myanmar – A Critical Approach to Environmental Politics in the South by Adam Simpson, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, 2017.

4 Minutes To ReadTinzar Htun reviews a new edition of Adam Simpson’s book on energy politics.

Tags: Book Review, energy, environment, security, Thailand

September 26, 2017

Pathways That Changed Myanmar, Matthew Mullen. Zed Books, 2016, 256 pages.

5 Minutes To ReadJames T. Davies reviews Matthew Mullen’s book on understanding change in Myanmar.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, ceasefire, economy, ethnic armed organisations, insurgency

September 13, 2017

Mapping Chinese Rangoon – Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese by Jayde Lin Roberts, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2016.

5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Jayde Lin Roberts’ book on the Sino-Burmese in Yangon.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, Chinese, diaspora, identity, Yangon

August 22, 2017

Islam and the State in Myanmar: Muslim-Buddhist Relations and the Politics of Belonging edited by Melissa Crouch, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2016, Pages 345.

6 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Melissa Crouch’s edited volume on Muslims in Myanmar.

Tags: Book Review, buddhism, Islam, religion

July 3, 2017

Buddhism, Politics, and Political Thought in Myanmar by Matthew J. Walton, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2017. 226 pages.

6 Minutes To ReadCourtney Wittekind reviews a new book on Buddhism and political thought by Matthew J. Walton.

Tags: Book Review, buddhism, democracy, morality, political dialogue

June 2, 2017

A Candid Conversation with a Fellow Researcher

7 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee talks with Yi Li about her new book on the Chinese migrant community in colonial Burma.

Interview

Tags: Book Review, Chinese, diaspora, migrants, migration

April 28, 2017

Architectural Guide Yangon by Ben Bansal, Elliott Fox and Manuel Oka, DOM Publishers, Berlin, 2015, 399 pages.

5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee loses herself in the Architectural Guide Yangon.

Arts & Literature

Tags: architecture, Book Review, history, Yangon

April 5, 2017

Myanmar’s Mountain and Maritime Borderscapes – Local Practices, Boundary-Making and Figured Worlds edited by Su-Ann Oh, ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, 2016, 398 pages.

9 Minutes To Read

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, borderlands, environment, ethnicity

March 15, 2017

War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar: The Kachin Ceasefire, 1994-2011, edited by Mandy Sadan, NIAS Press, Copenhagen. 2016. 540 pages.

6 Minutes To ReadCourtney T. Wittekind reflects on the nuanced framing of war and peace offered by a new edited volume.

Tags: Book Review, borderlands, ethnicity, Kachin, peace

March 2, 2017

Caretaking Democratization: The Military and Political Change in Myanmar by Renaud Egreteau, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016, 193 Pages.

5 Minutes To ReadT. F. Rhoden reviews Renaud Egreteau’s new book on Burmese politics and the praetorian side of democratization.

Tags: Book Review, democracy

February 6, 2017

Democratisation of Myanmar by Nehginpao Kipgen, Routledge, New Delhi, 2016, 194 pages

6 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Nehginpao Kipgen’s new book on Myanmar’s transition.

Tags: Book Review, democracy

January 26, 2017

Constructing Civil Society in Myanmar: Struggles for Local Change and Global Recognition by Maaike Matelski, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2016, Pages 318.

8 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Maaike Matelski’s new PhD dissertation “Constructing Civil Society in Myanmar.”

Tags: Book Review, civil society, development

December 14, 2016

Learning, Migration and Intergenerational Relations – The Karen and the Gift of Education by Pia Jolliffe, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2016, 180 Pages.

5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Pia Jolliffe’s new book on the Karen and the gift of education.

Tags: Book Review, Karen, migration

November 28, 2016

Blood, Dreams and Gold – The Changing Face of Burma by Richard Cockett, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2015, 254 Pages.

5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Bannerjee reviews Richard Cockett’s new book on Myanmar.

Tags: Book Review, transition

August 31, 2016

Understanding Reform in Myanmar: People and Society in the Wake of Military Rule by Marie Lall, C. Hurst and Co (Publishers) Ltd, London, 2016, 346 Pages.

4 Minutes To ReadReshmi Bannerjee reviews a new book on Myanmar’s transition.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, democracy, reform

May 14, 2016

The Female Voice of Myanmar Khin Myo Chit to Aung San Suu Kyi by Nilanjana Sengupta, Cambridge University Press, Delhi, 2015, 383 Pages.

4 Minutes To ReadMyanmar today stands at the crossroads; where conflict and change are becoming daily occurrences. The book by Nilanjana Sengupta comes at an appropriate time where she sensitively takes up the […]