10 Minutes To ReadNicolas Salem-Gervais and Mael Raynaud present two case studies and conclude this three-part post.
Tags: ethnic languages, ethnic minorities, Kachin, pedagogy, shan
September 25, 2019
19 Minutes To ReadNicolas Salem-Gervais and Mael Raynaud discuss the prospects of ethnic minority languages standardization..
Tags: Burmese, Chin State, ethnic languages, ethnic minorities, Kachin, Kayan, Lisu, Rawang, textbooks
September 24, 2019
20 Minutes To ReadNicolas Salem-Gervais and Mael Raynaud discuss the teaching of ethnic minority languages in government schools.
Tags: culture, ethnic languages, ethnic minorities, policy, teaching, textbooks
September 23, 2019
4 Minutes To ReadYay Chann argues that it is time for Yangon City to build climate resilience.
Tags: climate change, environment, Hlaing Tharyar, investment, Yangon
September 12, 2019
15 Minutes To ReadHtet Thiha Zaw examines if early history explains subsequent state presence in Bago, Myanmar.
Tags: Bago, colonialism, development, forests, history, Konbaung, social welfare
September 11, 2019
4 Minutes To ReadJenny Hedström writes on the importance of a new open-source bibliography for Burma Studies, now hosted on Tea Circle.
Tags: burma studies, gender, knowledge, women
September 9, 2019
12 Minutes To ReadKimberley Pallenschat discusses Myanmar’s independent cinema and filmmaking.
Tags: censorship, cinema, film, freedom of expression, Yangon
September 5, 2019
5 Minutes To ReadKhine Zin Yu Aung discusses some of her findings on the youth and agricultural work in Myanmar.
Tags: agriculture, Chin State, myanmar, Sagaing, youth
July 22, 2019
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
11 Minutes To ReadIn the final part of this series, Bobby Anderson elaborates on the realities of opium-growing areas of Chin state, and their divergence from both existing stereotypes and the triage described in Part One and Two.
Tags: agriculture, Chin, conflict, drugs, infrastructure, opium, peace process
July 6, 2019
13 Minutes To ReadIn Part Two of a three-part series, Bobby Anderson examines the case of Tonzang and its exception to conditions for opium-funded insurgencies in Myanmar, as outlined in Part One.
Tags: agriculture, Chin, Chin National Front (CNF), conflict, drugs, infrastructure, insurgency, Kuki, opium, peace process, Tonzang
July 4, 2019
22 Minutes To ReadBobby Anderson, in Part One of a three-part series on opium and insurgency in Tonzang, examines some elements of traditional understandings of insurgency, statebuilding and opium.
Tags: agriculture, Chin, conflict, drugs, ethnic conflict, infrastructure, insurgency, opium, peace, peace process, Tonzang
July 1, 2019
4 Minutes To ReadMaggi Quadrini and Mie Mie share their experiences at a peace conference hosted by the Karenni National Women’s Organization.
Tags: equality, gender, karenni, Kayah, peace, shan, women's rights
June 27, 2019
6 Minutes To ReadYay Chann argues that Yangon City’s declining green spaces is bad for its citizens, climate change resilience and tourism.
Tags: environment, public spaces, tourism, urban planning, urbanisation, Yangon
June 24, 2019
5 Minutes To ReadLiv Gaborit and Andrew Jefferson discuss the value of amnesties in light of the recent prison riots.
Tags: detention, prison, prison reform, rule of law
June 17, 2019
9 Minutes To ReadZaw Myat Lin discusses the issue of corruption and the current anti-corruption campaigns ongoing in Myanmar.
Tags: corruption, development, justice, National League for Democracy (NLD), Yangon
June 5, 2019
3 Minutes To ReadSwe Zaw Oo narrates a perspective on the prevalence of tax evasion in Myanmar’s cash-based economy. Image courtesy of Swe Zaw Oo The sleepy afternoon of a Yangon street is woken […]
May 21, 2019
10 Minutes To ReadMarie Puyessegur explores events in part one of a three-part series conducted as part of the MEMORY! Heritage Film Festival, an annual event in Yangon.
Tags: censorship, democracy, film, freedom of expression, journalism, media, Yangon
April 29, 2019
9 Minutes To ReadSu-Ann Oh and Melanie Walker discuss the challenges of return to ceasefire areas faced by post-secondary schools in Karen refugee camps on the Thai-Myanmar border.
Tags: borders, educational reform, Karen, Karen State, refugee camps, refugees, Thai-Burma border
April 24, 2019
9 Minutes To ReadThein Than Win, from the Paññā Institute, and Mael Raynaud suggests that federalism is now an objective shared by the Bamar in Myanmar’s seven regions.
Tags: Bago, bamar, democratization, ethnic minorities, federalism, Sagaing
April 8, 2019
4 Minutes To ReadJesse Hartery responds to Jason Gelbort’s argument that the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw can circumvent the military’s veto over constitutional amendments.
Tags: constitutional reform, Hluttaw, military, National League for Democracy (NLD)
April 4, 2019
8 Minutes To ReadU Pe Aung Lin is the chairman of the Myanmar Center to Empower Regional Parliaments (MCERP). This post is a transcript of a conversation with Mael Raynaud, the Head of […]
Tags: decentralization, democracy, National League for Democracy (NLD), parliament, states and regions
March 25, 2019
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
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
7 Minutes To ReadGregory Cathcart and Saw Chit Thet Tun examine how Mine Action activities could ignite movement in the current peace process in Karen State.
Tags: ceasefire, humanitarian aid, Karen State, militarization, peace process
February 20, 2019
9 Minutes To ReadShona Loong and Gray Rinehart discuss how local leaders in post-secondary schools pave the way for inclusive, critical, and community-based learning.
Tags: borders, community, development, educational reform, ethnic minorities, higher education, Hpa-An, Karen, refugee camps, states and regions, Tanintharyi, Thai-Burma border
February 18, 2019
4 Minutes To ReadDaw Htay Htay Win remembers chef Michel Louis Méca, and a very special cake he baked.
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Insein, National League for Democracy (NLD)
February 7, 2019
10 Minutes To ReadThiha Wint Aung explains why responding to the Arakan Army (AA) with full military might would be counterproductive.
Tags: Arakan Army (AA), China, democracy, National League for Democracy (NLD), Rakhine State, Tatmadaw
February 5, 2019
15 Minutes To ReadMyat Myat Mon looks at where China-Myanmar relations have been in 2018 and where they’re heading.
Tags: Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), borders, China, Myitsone, Nay Pyi Taw, One Belt One Road, paukphaw, Tatmadaw, Yunnan
January 31, 2019
3 Minutes To ReadNang Kham Awn and Maggi Quadrini reflect on almost two decades of tireless activism and advocacy.
Tags: activism, gender, peace, peace process, women's rights
January 29, 2019
5 Minutes To ReadThomas Dowling reflects on Facebook in Myanmar.
Tags: ethnic languages, Facebook, hate speech, human rights, social media
January 24, 2019
8 Minutes To ReadThomas Dowling presents an argument for how Facebook could potentially (and inadvertently) advance Burmanisation in Myanmar.
Tags: burmanisation, ethnic languages, Facebook, social media
January 23, 2019
6 Minutes To ReadThomas Dowling assesses Facebook’s mitigation strategies before critically engaging with the Company’s intentions in Myanmar.
Tags: burmanisation, ethnic languages, Facebook, social media
January 22, 2019
8 Minutes To ReadThomas Dowling considers the impact of Facebook in Myanmar and its potency for Burmanisation.
Tags: burmanisation, censorship, Facebook, hate speech, social media
January 21, 2019
10 Minutes To ReadKo Htwe describes the cross-border use of social media among Shan and Thai communities.
Tags: borders, community, Facebook, shan, social media, technology, Thai-Burma border
January 17, 2019
5 Minutes To ReadJaneen Sawatzkyreflects on the state of women’s and girls’ rights in Myanmar. Image courtesy of Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) Another year has drawn to a close and the […]
Tags: community-based organization (CBO), gender, human rights, sexual violence, women, women's rights
January 14, 2019
14 Minutes To ReadHan Htoo Khant Paing and Richard Roewer analyze how political parties have changed their campaign strategies to prepare for the 2020 election.
Tags: elections, Hluttaw, Kachin, National League for Democracy (NLD), Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP)
December 19, 2018
5 Minutes To ReadMaggi Quadrini argues that engagement practices between donors and grassroots women’s organizations in Myanmar need to change.
Tags: development, donors, gender, women's rights
December 13, 2018
7 Minutes To ReadPaing Soe Hlaing examines how the LPG business survives and grows in Myanmar.
Tags: economy, energy, investment, liquid petroleum gas, resources
December 10, 2018
5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Jennifer Rigby’s telling of twelve remarkable Myanmar women and their life histories.
Tags: art, Book Review, freedom of expression, gender, women
November 28, 2018
7 Minutes To ReadZaw Myat Lin discusses the impact of FDIs on sustainable human development in Myanmar.
Tags: economy, foreign investment, land rights, peace process, sustainable development
November 14, 2018
6 Minutes To ReadOlly Gagiero describes how the suppression of Myanmar’s drug trade is constrained by pervasive corruption.
Tags: corruption, drugs
November 7, 2018
7 Minutes To ReadDarcy Moffatt discusses how the criminalisation of journalists robs Myanmar of press freedom.
Tags: censorship, democracy, journalism, press freedom
7 Minutes To ReadGabrielle Maginness writes about challenges to Myanmar’s transition to federalism.
Tags: federalism, law, rule of law, transition
5 Minutes To ReadBased on her observations, Madeline Luke explores potential improvements to Myanmar’s education.
Tags: educational reform
7 Minutes To ReadClaire Allen considers an education curriculum based on critical thinking.
Tags: democracy, educational reform
5 Minutes To ReadMish Khan and Sam Taylor evaluate the utility of AI in detecting hate speech online.
Tags: Facebook, hate speech, social media
November 6, 2018
4 Minutes To ReadSiew Han Yeo writes about Tea Circle’s transition to the Southeast Asian Studies community at the University of Toronto.
Tags: burma studies, Myanmar Studies, tea circle
October 31, 2018
6 Minutes To ReadMatthew J Walton introduces Tea Circle’s move from Oxford to Toronto and reflects on the site’s development.
Tags: burma studies, Myanmar Studies, Oxford, tea circle
October 30, 2018
4 Minutes To ReadHelen Mears and Sandra Dudley peek inside Myanmar’s National Museum in Nay Pyi Taw.
Tags: culture, memory, museum, Nay Pyi Taw
October 15, 2018