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Cover Image: Infinite Love No. 1 by Maung Theid Dhi, signed in 1982, Yangon Burma/Myanmar. Oil on canvas, 31 x 31 in. BC2019.05.48. Burma Art Collection. Northern Illinois University. Gift of Hugh C. MacDougall.Maung Theid Dhi painted Infinite Love No. 1 in Rangoon in 1982. He worked in oil in the late 1970s and through the 1980s, and later incorporated acrylic into his artistic practice. He is documented as having produced provocative work in the 1970s that attracted the attention of state censors, including a 1974 art performance at the Wild Eye Exhibition where he dragged his chained self-portrait across the floor. His work was removed from exhibition and after a similar re-showing of the same painting in 1976
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/529/image/coversmallCover Image2026-01-13text/htmlen-USCover Image2026-01-132026TWOProject MUSE®78332026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-13General Editor’s Note
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This issue of the Journal of Burma Studies (JBS) comes at a time when the Center for Burma Studies is about to celebrate its fortieth anniversary. The Center was founded in 1986 at Northern Illinois University (NIU) following a competition among American universities renowned for their research in Southeast Asian Studies. The Burma Studies Group (BSG), a network of scholars affiliated with the Association for Asian Studies, sought an institutional home for a large collection of Burmese books and artworks. NIU, strengthened by the presence of a Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), established in 1963, won the bid by committing to create and maintain the Center and to preserve and promote Burmese materials on
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/529/image/coversmallGeneral Editor’s Note2026-01-13text/htmlen-USGeneral Editor’s Note2026-01-132026TWOProject MUSE®109742026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-13Special Issue Introduction: Rebuilding Prospects for “Peace”: Gender, Civil Society, and Informal Spaces in Post-Coup Myanmar
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979882
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This Special Issue explores the intricate themes of gender, civil society, and informal peace spaces in postcoup Myanmar. This collection of articles situates Myanmar women’s initiatives, practices, and spaces within Myanmar’s historical, political, and cultural context rather than broader attempts to promote women’s inclusion in ongoing peace processes as per the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda (Olivius, Hedström, and Zin Mar Phyo 2022). We view that in the ashes of a failed national-level Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) process (2011–2015) and the fraught efforts to manage the fractured talks between different fronts of armed resistance (2016–2021) (Thawnghmung and Htoo 2022), a gendered analysis of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/529/image/coversmallSpecial Issue Introduction: Rebuilding Prospects for “Peace”: Gender, Civil Society, and Informal Spaces in Post-Coup Myanmar2026-01-13text/htmlen-USSpecial Issue Introduction: Rebuilding Prospects for “Peace”: Gender, Civil Society, and Informal Spaces in Post-Coup Myanmar2026-01-132026TWOProject MUSE®764692026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-13Tending to Territories of Life: Indigeneity, Gender, and Peacebuilding in the Salween Peace Park
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979883
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Ei Htu Hta camp, in the Karen National Union (KNU)-controlled Mutraw District, has housed thousands of displaced Karen people since it was established nearly two decades ago. While often seen as part of southeast Myanmar, Mutraw District has never been controlled by the central Myanmar government.1 There, on the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples in August 2018, Naw Hsa Yu stood in front of a crowded meeting hall to launch Studying Orchids, Enriching Lives, a S’gaw Karen language report documenting more than one hundred orchid species in the KNU-controlled Mutraw district. Naw Hsa Yu was representing a team of six women biodiversity researchers, who had been studying orchid species in Mutraw for
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/529/image/coversmallTending to Territories of Life: Indigeneity, Gender, and Peacebuilding in the Salween Peace Park2026-01-13text/htmlen-USTending to Territories of Life: Indigeneity, Gender, and Peacebuilding in the Salween Peace Park2026-01-132026TWOProject MUSE®1590172026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-13Feminist and Marxist Perspectives on Women’s Labor Leadership in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979884
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As of 2018, the Confederation of Trade Unions, Myanmar (CTUM), reported a total membership of 65,002 individuals. Women accounted for approximately 35% of CTUM’s membership, with 89% of these women concentrated in the Industrial Workers Federation (Danish Trade Union Development Agency 2021:23). In leadership roles, women held fewer than 30% of Director-General positions across all but three ministries. In addition, there were no women in senior State and Regional Government positions, and only 10% of gazetted roles within the General Administration Department were held by women (UNDP 2018). The 2021 military coup had a severe impact on trade unions and civil society organizations (CSOs) in Myanmar (United Nations
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/529/image/coversmallFeminist and Marxist Perspectives on Women’s Labor Leadership in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution2026-01-13text/htmlen-USFeminist and Marxist Perspectives on Women’s Labor Leadership in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution2026-01-132026TWOProject MUSE®1322742026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-13Women’s Principled Tactical Pluralism: Understanding the Cases of Sisters2Sisters and the Spouses of People’s Soldiers
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979885
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On 1 February 2021, Myanmar’s national military staged an overnight coup, arresting a group of newly elected civilian politicians and preventing the new government—the result of elections in late 2020—from convening for its inaugural session. A spontaneous uprising quickly emerged in response, growing to an unprecedented scale nationwide. Despite being violently repressed, this uprising has persisted into the present, evolving into a sprawling, multifaceted resistance movement that includes a large number of armed groups now fighting Myanmar’s military on many fronts.Women and sexual and gender minorities1 were highly visible in the early days of the movement, holding leading and organizing roles as well as making
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/529/image/coversmallWomen’s Principled Tactical Pluralism: Understanding the Cases of Sisters2Sisters and the Spouses of People’s Soldiers2026-01-13text/htmlen-USWomen’s Principled Tactical Pluralism: Understanding the Cases of Sisters2Sisters and the Spouses of People’s Soldiers2026-01-132026TWOProject MUSE®1504472026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-13Clientelism in Myanmar Residential Care Facilities
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Residential care for children has proliferated in Myanmar, despite extensive evidence of the harms of child institutionalization. Consistent with global trends, most children in residential care in Myanmar have one or both living parents and are placed in care primarily due to poverty or limited access to education, particularly in rural areas (Department of Social Welfare 2011). Data released by the Department of Social Welfare (2011; Aung 2019) indicates a 58% increase in the number of residential care facilities in Myanmar between 2006 and 2018, from 177 facilities in 2006 to 280 in 2018. The number of children in residential care increased by 251% during the same period, from 14,410 to 36,000. These figures
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/529/image/coversmallClientelism in Myanmar Residential Care Facilities2026-01-13text/htmlen-USClientelism in Myanmar Residential Care Facilities2026-01-132026TWOProject MUSE®1525192026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-13