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UMD 27: When Leaving Becomes Resistance

UMD 27: When Leaving Becomes Resistance

Student Diplacement in Contemporary Myanmar Following Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, thousands of university students joined the…

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Fugitive Professionalism: Community Networks and the Work of Public Life in and Beyond Post-coup Myanmar

Fugitive Professionalism: Community Networks and the Work of Public Life in and Beyond Post-coup Myanmar

When Myanmar’s military seized power in 2021, the state did not simply change hands. In many…

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Reimagining Community: Emergent Local Governance in Post-Coup Myanmar

Reimagining Community: Emergent Local Governance in Post-Coup Myanmar

What happens when the state becomes actively hostile or collapses entirely? In large swathes of post-coup…

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Sino-Thai Explorations: Agrarian Transitions in Ethnic Communities of Northern Thailand

Sino-Thai Explorations: Agrarian Transitions in Ethnic Communities of Northern Thailand

This publication presents a collection of collaborative research papers from social science students at Yunnan University…

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Yong People on the Move: Making a New Homeland

Yong People on the Move: Making a New Homeland

This book is a pioneer work that tells the "history from below" of the Yong, one…

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Ethnography Thrice Under Fire: Myanmar’s At-Risk Researchers of At-Risk Communities in At-Risk Environments

Ethnography Thrice Under Fire: Myanmar’s At-Risk Researchers of At-Risk Communities in At-Risk Environments

Gustaaf Houtman, Elliot Lodge, and Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, editors What happens when ethnographers join the resistance movement…

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Assemblages and Myanmar: How Realities are Made Up

Assemblages and Myanmar: How Realities are Made Up

This book gives a different perspective on what we think we see as ‘Myanmar’, and in…

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Sino-Thai Explorations: Agricultural Transition of Ethnic Groups and Livelihoods

Sino-Thai Explorations: Agricultural Transition of Ethnic Groups and Livelihoods

This publication is now the third in an annual collection of papers from ethnology students at…

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