Making land markets on Myanmar Facebook
6 Minutes To ReadCourtney T. Wittekind and Hilary Faxon underscore threats posed by a new market for land on Myanmar Facebook.
Internal migration in Myanmar: Security trumps economic incentives
6 Minutes To ReadSai Phyoe Zin Aung reflects on reasons for internal migration out of northern Shan State. Internal migration, the phenomenon of moving from one part of a country to another, is […]
A Preliminary Impact Assessment of COVID-19 on the Mon State Economy: Pathways to Recovery
13 Minutes To ReadMon Paing Ga Ghu, Hein Paing Htoo Chit, Karl Flecker and Yee Mon Hsu report on the economic impacts of COVID-19 in Mon State.
The Future of Agriculture in the Hands of the Next Generation in Myanmar
5 Minutes To ReadKhine Zin Yu Aung discusses some of her findings on the youth and agricultural work in Myanmar.
Opium’s Calculus (Part 3: An Ordinary Place)
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.
Opium’s Calculus (Part 2: The Experience of Northern Chin and Tonzang)
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.
Opium’s Calculus (Part 1: Abacus Beads)
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.
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.
Learning Feminism from Myanmar’s Women Farmers
7 Minutes To ReadHilary Faxon and Pyo Let Han reflect on the positions & politics of female farmers.
Land in Myanmar: The Year in Review
7 Minutes To ReadCatriona Knapman offers her insight on changing facets of land reform.