This post is an abridged version of an article that appears in a special edition of the Journal of Contemporary Asia on “Revolution and Solidarity in Myanmar” (Vol 54 No 5). Not surprisingly, ...

Observers in the West have largely interpreted the devastating violence that has engulfed Myanmar following the February 2021 military coup as a “battle between democracy and authoritarianism”. This ...

New Mandala provides anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on Southeast Asia. It devotes its attention to the politics and societies of Southeast Asian countries, and their connections with one ...

Phyo Wai is Associate Professor at the Department of English Related to Tipitaka, Mahavihara Dhamma-Vinaya University, Yangon. Dr Iselin Frydenlund is professor of the Study of Religion at the ...

Haironesah Domado is a development practitioner from Mindanao, Southern Philippines, and is a Maranao Muslim. She has extensive development experience in conflict affected areas in the Philippines, ...

Duncan Graham (www.indonesianow.blogspot.com) is an award-winning Australian journalist and author locked down in East Java. Along with the ineffectual lockdown the widely reported graft has fomented ...

Ng Yap Hwa is a trade unionist and human rights activist based in Malaysia. His research interests are trade unionism in South East Asia, social justice and freedom from torture. He is the founder and ...

Bradley Wood is a Master of Strategic Studies (Advanced) student at the Australian National University’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. He was the 2017 Robert O’Neill scholar at the ...

Edoardo Siani is an anthropologist who writes about Buddhist cosmology and power in contemporary Thailand. Based in Bangkok since 2002, he received his PhD in anthropology and sociology from SOAS, ...

Rungrawee Chalermsripinyorat commenced her PhD at the Australian National University’s Department of Political and Social Change in February 2015. She holds a BA in Journalism from Bangkok’s Thammasat ...

Craig J. Reynolds is a historian in the School of Culture, History, and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. His Power, Protection and Magic in Thailand: The ...