Through ethnography of de-agrarianization and extraction in Myanmar, the article shows
how threshold subjects–poor laborers uncertain whether they are relatively or absolutely …

How do contemporary subjects navigate, withstand and even contest the particular
governmental assemblages that define regimes of power today? The article addresses this …

In part because a single colonial project eventually formally incorporated Burma as an
appendage to British colonial rule of India, Burma scholars persistently draw on …

This article traces the bureaucratic bases of the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. I draw on
ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with Rohingya activists to elucidate the political …

Abstract The Thai-Myanmar border represents one of the most protracted displacement
situations in the world, while the Myanmar-Bangladesh border is now home to nearly one …

Despite themselves suffering different forms of violence at the hands of the Myanmar
military, Myanmar's masses have resoundingly endorsed the military's ethnic cleansing of its …

Can stateless persons become legal‐economic subjects without state ratification? Can they
appropriate technologies not designed for them to create both new subjectivities and new …

Since the mid-1990s, the Free Burma Rangers (FBR)–a self-defined 'multi-ethnic
humanitarian movement'operating in Myanmar, Iraq, Syria, and South Sudan–has supported …

This article analyzes the ways in which processes of weapons acquisition and armed
collectives formation contribute to shape rebel polities–with their populations and attendant …

As places of transition, corridors shelter species–including humans–that flow from one place
to another. Humans in transition can host multiple identities rather than aff irming a singular …