Reposted by Dr Shona LoongCCDP | Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“The only option to make a living for Karen people after fighting the Myanmar military for seventy years,” a young Karen man said, is to “work on those businesses for the very people who took our land away.” Reposted to correct Dr. Loong's name. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 111
Reposted by Dr Shona LoongCCDP | Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026'The only option to make a living for Karen people after fighting the Myanmar military for seventy years,’ a young Karen man said, is to ‘work on those businesses for the very people who took our land away.’ New article by Shona Long and Laure Siegel www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 011
Dr Shona Loong @shonaloong.bsky.social · 15/09/20261/ 🧵 ‘The only option to make a living for Karen people after fighting the Myanmar military for seventy years,’ a young man told us, is to ‘work on those businesses [scams] for the very people who took our land away.’ Our new article discusses cyber scams as a form of wartime survival in Myanmar. 1112
Dr Shona Loong @shonaloong.bsky.social · 27/01/2026🧵 New paper in Development & Change: a paper on foreign aid, civil society & post-colonial statebuilding in southeast Myanmar. Open-access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 173
Dr Shona Loong @shonaloong.bsky.social · 12/01/20261/ ✍️ A new article that has been a little scary to put out into the world: "Volunteering while researching conflict and violence: reflections on listening, solidarity, and decoloniality in Myanmar's borderlands". Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 1123
Reposted by Dr Shona LoongVanessa Lamb @drvanessalamb.bsky.social · 06/01/2026New Year's READ: Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence by @shonaloong.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Excited that this is part of our special issue on #Decolonising Research #Ethics in Asia Pacific Viewpoint (w/Anne Décobert, Sophia Htwe + @zalifung.bsky.social)onlinelibrary.wiley.com 063
Reposted by Dr Shona LoongAmerican Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Literature 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 061
Dr Shona Loong @shonaloong.bsky.social · 27/08/2025This 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 020
Dr Shona Loong @shonaloong.bsky.social · 28/07/20251/ 📖 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...teacirclemyanmar.comProducing knowledge in/of/for Myanmar’s borderlands - Tea CircleThe authors reflect on the politics of producing borderland knowledge in Myanmar after the coup. 1104
Reposted by Dr Shona LoongDavid Brenner @davidbrenner.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Ethnic 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🧵1/8doi.orgRebel Politics after the Coup: Ethnic Armed Organisations and Myanmar’s Spring RevolutionEthnic armed organisations or EAOs play a pivotal role in the revolutionary war against Myanmar’s junta. These ethno-national rebel movements have not only captured large swathes of territory, but ... 1138
Reposted by Dr Shona LoongHpan Ja Brang @hpanjabrang.bsky.social · 10/05/2025For 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/...aljazeera.comReporting from behind shifting front lines in Myanmar’s civil warJournalists with the Shan State-based news outlet Shwe Phee Myay continue to report amid civil war and repression. 13812
Reposted by Dr Shona LoongDavid Brenner @davidbrenner.bsky.social · 24/04/2025I 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! 091
Reposted by Dr Shona LoongHunter Marston @hmarston.bsky.social · 24/04/2025My 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...muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE - <i>New Answers to Old Questions: Myanmar Before and After the 2021 Coup d’État</i> by Aaron Connelly and Shona Loong (review) 154
Dr Shona Loong @shonaloong.bsky.social · 17/04/2025🧵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 23013
Reposted by Dr Shona LoongKyaw Hsan Hlaing @kyawhsanhlaing.com · 17/04/2025Here 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...foreignpolicy.comMyanmar’s Earthquake Exposes Political Fault LinesThe junta has exploited past crises to reinforce its power—and it can do it again. 094
Dr Shona Loong @shonaloong.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Myanmar 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...thediplomat.comAfter the Myanmar Earthquake, Crisis Fatigue Reaches New DepthsMyanmar’s people confront a sense that the country’s crises are escalating in scale, even as foreign support becomes more difficult to secure. 173