Literature on nonstate territories often foregrounds grassroots actors that resist militarization and violence. @shonaloong.bsky.social discusses that armed struggle may be necessary in the resistance to #postcolonial state building, focusing on the KNU-controlled Salween Peace Park. buff.ly/7aayJxx

This morning at @rgsibg.bsky.social conference: two hybrid sessions on the Political Geographies of Foreign Aid

🕘 09:00–10:40 & 10:55–12:50 BST
📍 Alan Walters Bldg, Rm 223

Co-convened by Emma Mawdsley & Paul Gilbert
Sponsored by @polgrg.bsky.social & @devgeogsrg.bsky.social

1/ 📖 For Tea Circle, we reflect on the politics of producing knowledge in/of/for Myanmar’s borderlands after the 2021 coup.

With co-authors: Anders K. Moeller, Radka Antalikova, Dan Seng Lawn, Peter Suante - each involved in non-state research/education work.
🔗 teacirclemyanmar.com/education/pr...

Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) are key actors in Myanmar's revolutionary war. But their positioning towards the crisis has been far from clear. How do we make sense of their strategies?

I hope to shed some light on this with my new open access article: doi.org/10.1080/0047...

Some takeaways🧵1/8

For World Press Freedom Day, we'd like to share: Journalists from Shan State-based news outlets Shwe Phee Myay continue their work amid civil war, military repression, & challenges linked to USAID funding.

By @emilyfishbein11.bsky.social and Me

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

I am late to the party, but this is a fantastic article on one of the most inspiring projects of ethnic minority resistance in Southeast Asia. Well worth your time, also for anyone interested in how more-than-rebel governance can foster alternative modes of progressive community building!

My review of @connellyal.bsky.social & Shona Loong's excellent book on #Myanmar is available in the newest issue of Contemporary Southeast Asia. You can read the full review here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/70/artic...

🧵1/ How can armed resistance enable—not undermine—democracy, peacebuilding, and the revitalisation of Indigenous socio-ecological relations?

In the Annals of the AAG, I write about post/decolonial approaches to territory & the #SalweenPeacePark
doi.org/10.1080/2469... @geographers.bsky.social

Here is my piece for @foreignpolicy.com on Myanmar’s earthquake and its political aftershocks

“Myanmar needs more than charity: It needs solidarity and sustained pressure for the freedom that its people have died for.” foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/16/m...

Myanmar was struck by a powerful earthquake on 28 March. #MyanmarEarthquake

For
@thediplomat.com
, I write about how the earthquake added another layer of upheaval to a country already repeatedly and devastatingly unsettled. (1/x)

thediplomat.com/2025/04/afte...