9 Minutes To ReadShona Loong, Anders Kirstein Moeller, Radka Antalikova, Dan Seng Lawn, Peter Suante The authors reflect on the politics of producing borderland knowledge in Myanmar after the coup.
Tags: autonomy, borderlands, education, knowledge production, marginalization, research
July 21, 2025
9 Minutes To ReadHtet Hlaing Win contends that effective environmental campaigns in Myanmar are not possible until a dramatic change in political arrangement occurs.
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, borderlands, China, climate change, democracy, environment, ethnic armed groups (EAOs), fossil fuels, military coup, military junta, Min Aung Hlaing, National League of Democracy (NLD), National Unity Government (NUG), Ne Win, State Administration Council (SAC), sustainability, Three Brotherhood Alliance, U Nu, urban planning, Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC)
January 2, 2025
9 Minutes To ReadVictoria (pseudonym) details some of the discrimination the post-coup Myanmar diaspora in Thailand face.
Tags: borderlands, citizenship, labour rights, migrant workers, refugees, revolution, Spring Revolution, statelessness, Thai-Burma border
September 30, 2024
3 Minutes To Readซาลี ฟัง และ มึดา นาวานาถ หารือเกี่ยวกับโครงการผันน้ำยวมที่ถกเถียงเถียงกัน The English version of this article was originally published on April 3, 2023. Read the post here. A Burmese translation is available here.
Tags: borderlands, development, Salween, Thai-Burma border
April 26, 2023
11 Minutes To ReadEmily Fishbein and Kelvin Sinpraw (pseudonym) show how a Kachin tradition defies borders.
Tags: borderlands, borders, culture, India, Jinghpaw, Kachin, Manau, Shapawng Yawng, Singpho
April 24, 2023
10 Minutes To ReadZali Fung and Mueda Nawanat discuss the contested Yuam River Water Diversion Project. A Thai translation is available here.
Tags: borderlands, development, Salween, Thai-Burma border
April 3, 2023
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 […]
Tags: borderlands, conflict, ethnic armed organisations, Kachin, Karen, rebel politics, rebellion
April 14, 2020
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
7 Minutes To ReadBobby Anderson writes about Paletwa, in southern Chin State, in a two-part series.
Tags: borderlands, borders, Chin, Rakhine State
May 17, 2018
6 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee explores issues which unify North East India and Myanmar.
Tags: borderlands, culture, ethnicity, India
May 3, 2018
5 Minutes To ReadFrances O’Morchoe delves into the stories of banishment, migration and golden ages within Lahu pasts.
Tags: borderlands, borders, history, Lahu
February 22, 2018
10 Minutes To ReadFrancesco Buscemi explores dynamics between the government and state-repelling populations in Myanmar.
Tags: borderlands, Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA), ethnic armies, ethnic conflict, identity, insurgency, Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS), Tatmadaw
February 19, 2018
3 Minutes To ReadLiu Yun looks at an influential figure in the peace process.
Tags: borderlands, borders, China, ethnic conflict, ethnic politics, Kokang, peace process, Tatmadaw
October 16, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadBobby Anderson analyzes the complexities of a post-Panglong peace process.
Tags: borderlands, demobilization, disarmament, economy, Panglong, peace process, reintegration
August 25, 2017
8 Minutes To ReadBobby Anderson analyzes the complexities of a post-Panglong peace process.
Tags: borderlands, demobilization, disarmament, economy, Panglong, peace process, reintegration
August 24, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadBobby Anderson analyzes the complexities of a post-Panglong peace process.
Tags: borderlands, demobilization, disarmament, economy, Panglong, peace process, reintegration
August 23, 2017
9 Minutes To ReadPhacharaphorn Phanomvan digs into cross-border antiquities-smuggling practices.
Tags: borderlands, culture, Thai-Burma border, Thailand
July 10, 2017
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Tags: Book Review, borderlands, environment, ethnicity
March 15, 2017
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
3 Minutes To ReadLiu Yun takes a critical look at the NAB offensive and China-Myanmar relations.
Tags: borderlands, China, ethnic armed organisations, ethnic armies, peace, violence
January 18, 2017