Francesco Buscemi

Ars artium, regimen animarum

[Francesco Buscemi @sushbus]

I am happy to share a new article that just came out on @Pol_Geog_Jl co-authored w Matteo Proto. (Accessible here https://t.co/aCw0gxs8Yf for free until 16.2.24.)

[@mattyrdubs.bsky.social @mattyrdubs]

1/2 - After 2 years & 10 months, Mai Aung Htet Oo, a staff member of Northern Shan CBO Ta'ang Students & Youth Union (TSYU), has been liberated from Lashio Prison, after Three Brotherhood Alliance forces took the city. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

[Nicholas Marsh @MarshyNic]

In 2023 we organized a workshop, conference and conducted interview son the state and future of humanitarian disarmament. You can read the five brief outputs here https://t.co/0MXWOGjfpF and the following thread includes some of the highlights.

[Francesco Buscemi @sushbus]

These techniques revolve around a politicization of the figure of the "partisan" as a weapon to be harnessed or to be targeted that has specific biological and geographic links with the land. An element that draws a fil rouge throughout wars in Palestine, Ukraine, Russia or Burma

[Francesco Buscemi @sushbus]

I am happy to share a new article that just came out on @Pol_Geog_Jl co-authored w Matteo Proto. (Accessible here https://t.co/aCw0gxs8Yf for free until 16.2.24.)

[Francesco Buscemi @sushbus]

By managing military techniques/infrastructures like free-fire and scorched earth, porterage and human minesweeping, militias and military settlements the Tatmadaw turns populations into a "natural" element of the space and naturalises border areas as frontiers of the polity.

[@mattyrdubs.bsky.social @mattyrdubs]

Damage to civilian homes in Namhsan due to SAC shelling, following SACs ill-advised assault on TNLA, is extensive; 50+ destroyed. In the middle of winter no less. Reconstruction will be lengthy; displaced face a cold winter. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

https://t.co/JY3Mgzole4

[@mattyrdubs.bsky.social @mattyrdubs]

1/2 - Nice thread on arguably Myanmar's greatest ever footballer, Anglo-Burmese Rangoon native Fred Pugsley. Forced to flee Rangoon in WWII, he walked on foot with his family, with thousands of others, to Calcutta, turning up at the doorstep of @eastbengal_fc .

[@mattyrdubs.bsky.social @mattyrdubs]

1/ - According to local media & CBOs in Northern Shan, the SAC has launched an assault earlier today near TNLA HQ in NW Namhsan Township, which is in a remote area of the Palaung SAZ; possibly targeting TNLA leadership present at the time. (🗺️'s - EBO & MIMU)

[Hanna Pfeifer @hanna_pfeifer]

And here come #9 @timglawion @ACLeNoan
and our intro to the special issue - two #openaccess pieces on rebel governance in Small Wars and Insurgencies! @reginesonja and I propose a politicisation of the rebel governance paradigm here: https://t.co/gXLBuM13nB

[juliapalik @juliapalik1]

What happens when the guns are taken away from rebel groups? How are women working towards arms control? And why it is important to acknowledge that weapons go South, drugs go North?

[The Red Line - Podcast @TheRedLinePod]

NEW EPISODE >> MYANMAR'S CRUMBLING COUP 🇲🇲🇲🇲

Myanmar's military Junta's control of the country appears to be in full rout across the country, but as the Junta crumbles a brutal mutli-directional civil war seems to be opening up. Going from bad, to worse.

https://t.co/hzpiJMHCQA

[Francesco Buscemi @sushbus]

4/ I engage with recent literature on the biopolitical aspects of rebel rule by (e.g.) @DavBrenner, @smartitaz, @KasperHoffmann2, @judithverweijen building upon work by Elliott Prasse-Freeman

[Francesco Buscemi @sushbus]

1/ Sharing an article that just came out recently https://t.co/K3CX5ZcKxa

[Francesco Buscemi @sushbus]

3/ I explore the ways in which rebel movements shape their polities by governing access to weapons and the formation of an armed force.

[RISP Ita PolSc Rev @Ita_PolSc_Rev]

From Vol.52/2:
How do arms, arms flows & associated regulatory practices reshape geometries of authority & power in borderlands? Focusing on Myanmar🇲🇲 @sushbus analyzes encounters btw explosive devices/landmines & subjects/spaces they target
#Free read 👉https://t.co/dxqdaoPiXL

[@mattyrdubs.bsky.social @mattyrdubs]

New @amnesty report out on landmine usage in Karenni. Key takeaways sadly common across 🇲🇲; extensive SAC mining of civilian areas, and that contamination will prevent future farming; food security issues on the horizon. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

https://t.co/lAL3VIzSHf

[@mattyrdubs.bsky.social @mattyrdubs]

1/4 - July 11th marks 4 years to the day from one of the more horrific recent incidents in Northern Shan; when six TNLA female medics were captured & summarily executed by Myanmar Army troops from LID #88 in Namhkam Township. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

https://t.co/s5LhcLs1Up