Associate Professor in Comparative Politics @CityUHongKong. Exploring all things Burmese, or #Myanmar. Ex- @TheWilsonCenter, @ISEAS. Trained @CERI_SciencesPo.Joined August 2015
What determines attachment to the state among ethnic minorities? @jangaijap shows how everyday experiences involving street-level bureaucrats matter.
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🧵After much work with Nhu Truong and @MaggieShum3, our @democ_journal special issue on "Agents of Resistance: Resolve and Repertoires Against Autocratization in Asia" is finally published! The introduction to the special issue is open access here: doi.org/10.1080/135103…
Après 3 ans d'oubli, la guerre en Birmanie conquiert les télés françaises grâce à 3 docus chocs sur fond de victoires de la résistance : un Arte Reportage, un Envoyé Spécial et un documentaire sur les Free Burma Rangers le dimanche sur France 2.
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📺 Demain dans Arte Reportage, notre document tourné avec @BasleGermain au coeur de la résistance birmane : une armée de civils qui s'est levée après le coup d'État pour combattre la junte. Un reportage réalisé dans des conditions difficiles... 1/3
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With this @IAJournal_CH article on #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar, I hope to contribute to a better understanding of one of the world's most severe crises & to debates on knowledge production in Conflict and Peace Studies.
Open access👉 doi.org/10.1093/ia/iia…
+ some reflections 🧵1/8
!!Calling all book reviewers!!
We are looking for book reviews of recently published books that are connected to social movement studies. Please get in touch with our book review editor @mooremadelainef if you have a book in mind!
Yesterday’s strike succeeded thanks to public’s participation and tireless activists despite obstacles. This video is a form of than-gyat, celebrating #SilentStrike, message being #OurCityOurRuleOurWill, proving that the control of cities belongs to people.
#MyanmarUnsilenced
A new week is upon us & the🗓️is packed with events!
Many are related to Myanmar as its almost 3 years since the Military overthrew the government. Since then the Peoples of Myanmar have been fighting back!
The #MilkTeaAlliance still stands with our Myanmar friends & allies✊🏼
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In this piece, we argue against those obsessed with “political fragmentation”. We argue why it is wrong for international policy community to insist @NUGMyanmar to create a central command, and offer an alternative.
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📢 Call for Papers! @merweissphd and I are inviting papers on how activists adapt, innovate, & sustain movements amidst democratic backsliding in #Asia. Workshop to take place in Québec City (Oct 2024), followed by a journal special issue. Proposals by Feb 5, 2024. Follow link 👇
📢 Call for Papers! @merweissphd and I are inviting papers on how activists adapt, innovate, & sustain movements amidst democratic backsliding in #Asia. Workshop to take place in Québec City (Oct 2024), followed by a journal special issue. Proposals by Feb 5, 2024. Follow link 👇
New Justice in #Translation out!
Songs by BLAST, a punk rock band formed by Indigenous Kachin pastors whose songs helped launch the movement against the Myitsone Dam, and featured in the documentary Above & Below the Ground.
Read/Download here: bit.ly/3uB1Dw0
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More visible political leadership in Shan State is needed.
The Brotherhood Alliance, KIO and PDFs are clearly all working to the same broad goal of multi-ethnic revolution that defeats the regime, so a new system can be built from bottom-up
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
The new Routledge edition of ‘Myanmar: Politics, Economy & Society’ edited by myself & Nich Farrelly has just been published. We’re particularly pleased to announce that the online version is available FREE for everyone. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmarroutledge.com/Myanmar-Politi…
One of the things I write about in my forthcoming book (due out Nov 14) are the bad conditions in which Aung San Suu Kyi was held in Naypyitaw Jail. Her cabin can be seen (inside red circle) from this Google Earth photo. The rest of us were in the cells in the yellow circle:
Dans un pays où le cinéma est plus que centenaire, Aung Ko avait une place à part. Sa prestation dans le film Rangoon a marqué les esprits. L’ardent défenseur de la démocratie 🇲🇲 s’en est allé. RIP toi le compagnon et ex de l’ambassade🇨🇵. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar#AvecToiMyanmar
It’s now online! Here in @cps_journal, I show how state violence in British Burma built on earlier state history, using original data from pre-colonial records in 1783. These variations in colonial coercion are important to understand state violence after independence.
It’s now online! Here in @cps_journal, I show how state violence in British Burma built on earlier state history, using original data from pre-colonial records in 1783. These variations in colonial coercion are important to understand state violence after independence.
Bloody Day in Kachin State
By Black Art
In solidarity with the people of Munglai Hkyet IDP Camp, Kachinland, bombed by the #Myanmar junta on Oct 9, 2023
📢Update Figure (Oct, 2023)
1⃣2⃣8⃣ MPs had been arrested.
8⃣5⃣ MPs are still being detained.
1⃣ regional MP was killed.
2⃣ regional MPs were died in prison.
1⃣7⃣ MPs have lost their lives while in hiding.
4⃣ MPs were revoked their citizenship.
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