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Dec 1, 2022

Mother tongue–based multilingual education: A vehicle for building Myanmar into an equal and fair federal democratic union

This paper reviews the education-related reforms that Myanmar’s nominally civilian government initiated in 2011. It specifically analyses whether the reforms paved the way for the implementation of mother tongue–based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) for all ethnic nationalities. The paper argues that the reforms fell short of allowing MTB-MLE for all ethnic…

Dec 1, 2022

Myanmar universities in the post-coup era: The clash between old and new visions of higher education

Our article gives an insight into the coup’s impact on Myanmar by focusing on the higher education sector. At this time of crisis, it draws on a set of qualitative data gathered through online interviews with students and university staff to produce an analysis of this extremely challenging chapter in…

Dec 1, 2022

Drugs flow where the rivers meet: Myanmar’s drug economy before and after the coup

This paper will provide an overarching summary of the evolution of the drug economy in Myanmar before shifting the focus to examine how this phenomenon’s scope and characteristics have changed after the coup: Have the recent socio-political shifts exacerbated or weakened the already existing trends, and how?

Dec 1, 2022

Weapons and ethnonational geographies in the borderlands: The case of the Ta’ang rebel movements in Myanmar

In Myanmar, ethnonationalism is often invoked as an explanation for the country’s perpetual violence and armed conflict. However, it is important to unpack the concept of ethnonationalism per se and how it is reproduced. To illuminate the dynamics since the 2021 coup, this chapter takes a step back from recent…

Dec 1, 2022

Economic and political challenges imposed on the Myanmar labor movement by the military junta

Following a brief description of the political reasons behind the military coup of 1 February 2021 in Myanmar, as well as the international dynamics that had facilitated it, this paper analyses the several economic and political challenges imposed on the country’s labor movement in the weeks and months after the…

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