Beautiful piece from Munira Khayyat on writing ethnography during Israel’s wars of annihilation: ‘What language can hold such rage and such sorrow? What words can keep a world now completely shattered whole? What tense does one write in?‘ ctjournal.org/2026/06/09/o...

On Ethnographic Barbarism - Critical Times

Ramia, the village in South Lebanon where I conducted fieldwork, was blown up in an act of war. On October 20, 2024, one month into a two-month war of annihilation, in a two-year (and counting) war, i...

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New research reveals how communities in Myanmar face climate change while navigating violence, dictatorship and ongoing crisis. Read book by @helenekyed.bsky.social and @drjchambers.bsky.social 📖 www.diis.dk/en/research/...

Climate change and Conflict in Myanmar

A special issue of the Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship reveals how communities face climate change while navigating violence, dictatorship and ongoing crisis

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How do conflict-affected communities experience and perceive climate change? This new article in the SI I co-edited to IJBS explores this question, showing how political, economic, religious and moral issues all shape everyday climate-conflict dynamics in Myanmar. ijbs.online/wp-content/u...

New special issue out from my amazing team which provides rare insights into how local communities in Myanmar experience and perceive climate change during wartime and political crisis. Open access to full publication with Burmese translation: ijbs.online/wp-content/u...

Super happy to share this new article where I explore the difficulties faced by displaced women on the Myanmar-Thai border and caring for borrowed lands along the Salween River serves as an act of re-existence that emplaces them against entangled forms of crisis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cultivating re-existence: women’s care work and political placemaking on the Myanmar-Thai river border

Across the world, conflict and capitalist dispossession inflict brutal violence on agricultural and resource-dependent populations. Drawing on ethnographic research among Indigenous Pgha k’nayaw co...

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Powerful and urgent zine from @focussouth.bsky.social on #care and #resistance in #socialmovements. Available in multiple languages! Download the zine here: www.agrowingculture.org/care-and-res...

Focus on the Global South@focussouth.bsky.social · 12mo ago

“Care and Resistance” brings together five diverse movements — Abahlali baseMjondolo (South Africa), LILAK (Philippines), West Street Recovery (U.S.), MST (Brazil), and SPFT (Thailand) — to share how care is embedded at the core of their struggles.

Check out our podcast discussing our project and how ‘natural’ disasters and climate change are being weaponised by the military junta in Myanmar.

Myanmar's crisis worsened by earthquake

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DIIS - Danish Institute for International Studies@diis.dk · last yr.

The recent earthquake in Myanmar hit an already vulnerable population suffering from extreme weather and war. In this podcast episode our two researchers @helenekyed.bsky.social and @drjchambers.bsky.social discuss how the military conflict and climate changes connect: www.diis.dk/en/node/27618/

Solidarity with all colleagues in the US, defending #anthropology !!! 3-5 PM ET, May 6, 2025 Join @americananthro.bsky.social here: my.americananthro.org/NC__Event?id... #AAATownHall #JoinTheConversation #AnthropologyMatters #DefendAnthropology #AcademicFreedom #AAAEvents #HigherEdCrisis

Powerful piece from J Hlaing articulating the harrowing mixture of fear and distress for members of the Burmese diaspora, as the earthquake unfolded in Myanmar

New Mandala@newmandala.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: 'On Friday 28 March at 5:40pm in Australia, I received a Telegram message from my mother, back home in Yangon, in our family chat. She said “Hi”, and I responded back, “hello”. The next message was, “Big strong earthquake happening”.' www.newmandala.org/if-you-need-...

“The junta’s callous contempt for human life, even in the face of widespread earthquake devastation, underscores its unsuitability to oversee aid—and more importantly, its willingness to manipulate any humanitarian response,” the civil society groups stated. myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

Myanmar civil society groups warn of weaponisation of aid as earthquake response intensifies

The groups say the regime must not be allowed to exploit overseas assistance or deny access to resistance-held areas hit by last Friday’s massive quake

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As #Myanmar reels from a 7.7 earthquake, the junta continues airstrikes while calling for intl aid. With its long history of weaponizing aid, agencies must ensure relief is not exploited by the junta & is channeled thru local responders. 🚨 Art by Lun Ye progressivevoicemyanmar.org/2025/03/30/p...

If you want to help victims of the earthquake in Myanmar, I recommend donating to smaller initiatives: 1. Better Burma (www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...) 2. Advance Myanmar (www.advancemyanmar.org/myanmar-eart...) 3. My PhD student from Mandalay is collecting funds www.gofundme.com/f/donation-t...

Donate to Help Survivors of Earthquake in Mandalay, organised by Ye Myint WIN

Hello, I am Nickey Diamond, originally from Mandalay, Myanmar, but now based in … Ye Myint WIN needs your support for Help Survivors of Earthquake in Mandalay

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Devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar has claimed 1,000+ lives, with Mandalay among the hardest hit regions due to its closeness to the epicenter. USGS estimates the toll could be as high as 10,000. The quake-stricken areas have also suffered from the Myanmar military's aerial assaults.

Disaster follows disaster amidst conflict and military rule in Myanmar. Misinformed international aid may try to bail out the SAC regime. If so, the 'disaster loop' will continue, with the people having to survive on their own through suffering, resistance and repression: www.tni.org/en/article/t...

The Disaster Loop | Transnational Institute

The massive earthquake of 7.7 magnitude which hit Myanmar yesterday is just the latest humanitarian disaster on top of humanitarian disaster to hit the country and its long-suffering peoples under one...

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Julie Bishop’s credibility as U.N. special envoy to Myanmar is increasingly being undermined

Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴@xunlingau.bsky.social · last yr.

“The fact that the companies Julie Bishop is linked to have a history of dirty deals with the Myanmar military makes her activities even more questionable" Good bit of work from @justiceformyanmar.org uncovering some potential conflicts of interests of the UN's special envoy on Myanmar 😬

Delighted to be visiting ANU in March to celebrate the release of my book, Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and everyday ethics in Southeastern Myanmar (NUS Press, 2024). For anyone in Canberra on 28 March, please do join me for this celebration. bellschool.anu.edu.au/event/book-p...

Book Party - Pursuing Morality | Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs

Book Party - Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and everyday ethics in Southeastern Myanmar

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"Resistance is... planting seeds and nurturing life in spaces that have been repeatedly devastated, because why else would you continue to grow life in a place if you had truly lost all hope?" stanforddaily.com/2025/01/31/r...

Returning home: Resistance, resilience and reflections of Kawthoolei

Hsi reflects on Kawthoolei, her home that marks a deep cultural significance for her people, but is also ravaged by violence and loss.

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Call for applications: 2025 #Myanmar Emerging Scholars and Young Leaders Workshop held at York University forms.gle/T7HGV54dv68d...

New open access article out exploring the role of Buddhist religious leaders in southeast Myanmar, reinforcing state processes of state territorialisation into lands owned by ethnic minority populations doi.org/10.22439/cja...