Burma Studies BSG

This is the Twitter presence of the Burma Studies Group, accessible to any student, scholar, or researcher of the region's many ethnic nationalities + cultures

[Edith Mirante @EdithMirante]

New essay by always insightful @Rgnhardliner examines “the fulcrums & lineaments, the tensions & contradictions” of Myanmar's anti-coup revolution, an historic “transition from occupied squares to armed struggle.” #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar https://t.co/QA39GC1e4I via @chuangcn

[Burma Studies BSG @TheNotoriusBSG]

New pubs 27-1-25 features @ctwittekind on speculation as subsistence in peri-urban Myanmar; Selth on Myanmar’s authoritarian intelligence apparatus; and Wu on Burmese exiles on the Thai border during this revolutionary era. https://t.co/ZarWkFzsIQ

[Burma Studies BSG @TheNotoriusBSG]

Recent Pubs, 20 January 2025 https://t.co/bQQvfcqldi w/ Thein-Lemelson on contestations over the memory of political imprisonment; Faxon et al trace a “feminist counter-topography” of Myanmar’s wars; and Sengupta on activism, law, and Rohingya life in Bangladesh camps.

[Burma Studies BSG @TheNotoriusBSG]

Recent Pubs, 13/1/25 https://t.co/BAywJRdQTL features @Stephen_Soe on how the coup enables labor exploitation in Thailand; Rellensmann w/ a book on the military regime’s appropriation of Buddhist sacred spaces; and Cerretani on transnational Rohingya social movements

[Burma Studies BSG @TheNotoriusBSG]

Recent Pubs, 6 January 2025 https://t.co/9shqaZ0NVA features articles on education in Myanmar: Wong on a decade of crisis and change for English teachers in Burma; Fretheim on faith-based higher ed; and Brown on higher ed in the coup context.

[Burma Studies BSG @TheNotoriusBSG]

Happy (Gregorian) New Year: Start 2025 by checking out our pubs archive!

BSG has now been doing “New Pubs” for a while, and the pubs are piling up. We don’t claim to be exhaustive, but otoh, we have amassed quite a few! Take a look at our archive here: https://t.co/AEaLrUwO4H

[Burma Studies BSG @TheNotoriusBSG]

This week’s New Pubs features Ma Thida’s book on the Spring Revolution; Thame’s political theory on constituent power in that revolution; and Scham’s book, “An Archaeology of Persecuted Peoples,” which focuses on mountainous Asia and includes the Rohingya. https://t.co/8dbENfWFkV

[Burma Studies BSG @TheNotoriusBSG]

This week’s New Pubs features all A names: Abb et al on the BRI in post-coup Myanmar; Aung Naing on emergent citizenship in the context of post-coup social protection; and Abd Jalil (+ Hoffstaedter) on Malaysia schemes for registering Burmese refugees. https://t.co/VZNoh4vpky

[Burma Studies BSG @TheNotoriusBSG]

This week’s New Pubs https://t.co/27ZtPxsZ1Y w/ Huard’s “Calibrated Engagement”, a classic Burma village study; Chowdhooree and Ferdaus on Rohingya women’s entrepreneurship in Bhasan Char; and Tansey and Plunkett on ASEAN’s willingness to ignore the global anti-coup norm.

[Burma Studies BSG @TheNotoriusBSG]

In Memoriam: David I. Steinberg (1928-2024)

https://t.co/tKp7jDoVWf

[Burma Studies BSG @TheNotoriusBSG]

Event: Ferguson on Silver Screens and Golden Dreams + film screening (9 Dec)
register: https://t.co/DQm4IpC0Ex

[Burma Studies BSG @TheNotoriusBSG]

with contributions from Alfred Scott and Rory Gill on the role of newspapers in the 1930 dockworker riot; Htay Htay Myint on Chinese literature in Myanmar; MacLachlan on music as a key dimension of courtship; and Chiarofonte on revolutionary music and Thingyan chants.

[Burma Studies BSG @TheNotoriusBSG]

Special New Pubs: “PopMyanmar” in JoBS 28.2 (Dec 2024) https://t.co/HRqLS2cJJw (see next tweet for deets)…

[GETSEA @GETSEA_]

Sana Aiyar joins @asia_york and respondent Jonathan Saha (@Jonathan_Saha) for their event, "Riot", examining the apotheosis of Hindu and Buddhist nationalism in Burma

Dec 4 @ 11 AM EST
https://t.co/aTdfsJSHGL

#SoutheastAsia #Burma #Myanmar #Buddhism #Hindu #History

[Elliott Prasse-Freeman @_e_pf_]

Burma studies q: Where is the ethnography of Rakhine contemporary identity and nationalism?* Doesn’t every other lumyo-gyi have several works, even conversations? …

(@TheNotoriusBSG)

[Burma Studies BSG @TheNotoriusBSG]

New Pubs, 2 Dec: Special Diss Edition https://t.co/yuUXW6WSOM w/ Dunford’s PhD diss on tea and Ta’ang, Mosberg’s on the politics of climate change adoption in Myanmar; Joseph’s master’s on Karen nation-building; and Vrieze’s diss on coalition building in the revolution.

[Burma Studies BSG @TheNotoriusBSG]

Opportunity: BSG travel award for 2025 AAS conf https://t.co/EW9Rxh1m6s with preference given to junior Myanmar scholars

[Burma Studies BSG @TheNotoriusBSG]

Recent Pubs, 25 Nov 2024 https://t.co/B5lxkGKpEA features Debnath on armed insurgent groups in Myanmar; Romaniuk and Roul reading ARSA thru an Islamic insurgency framework; and Palmgren on migrant survival and economic development at the Thai/Myanmar border.

[Elliott Prasse-Freeman @_e_pf_]

review of gorgeous and intense "Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring: Witness poems and essays from Burma/Myanmar (1988-2021)" finally out:
https://t.co/9XUcH0WyIl

[Burma Studies BSG @TheNotoriusBSG]

New Pubs, 11 Nov 2024 https://t.co/583cTysieC features two works of ethnomusicology – 1st Kiik on singing for environmentalism amid war; 2nd Greenwood on “sonic kinship” in post-coup Myanmar. Simion and Cheesman have a chapter on how Rule of Law brokers operate internationally.