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Dr Shona Loong

@shonaloong.bsky.social
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Conflict, aid politics, #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar | SNSF Ambizione Fellow @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social | Prev University of Zurich and @oxfordgeography.bsky.social www.shonaloong.com

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CCDP | 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....
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CCDP | 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....
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Dr Shona Loong @shonaloong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
1/ 🧵 ‘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.
Abstract of article in Civil Wars, entitled '"The only option?" Cyber scams, civilian survival and civil war in the Thai-Myanmar borderland.'
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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....
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Dr Shona Loong @shonaloong.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
1/ ✍️ 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....
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Vanessa Lamb @drvanessalamb.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
New 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)
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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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
Screenshot of the journal abstract. Click the link to learn more.
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Dr Shona Loong @shonaloong.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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
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Dr Shona Loong @shonaloong.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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...
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Producing knowledge in/of/for Myanmar’s borderlands - Tea Circle
The authors reflect on the politics of producing borderland knowledge in Myanmar after the coup.
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David Brenner @davidbrenner.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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
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Rebel Politics after the Coup: Ethnic Armed Organisations and Myanmar’s Spring Revolution
Ethnic 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 ...
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Hpan Ja Brang @hpanjabrang.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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/...
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Reporting from behind shifting front lines in Myanmar’s civil war
Journalists with the Shan State-based news outlet Shwe Phee Myay continue to report amid civil war and repression.
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David Brenner @davidbrenner.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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!
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Hunter Marston @hmarston.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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...
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Project MUSE - <i>New Answers to Old Questions: Myanmar Before and After the 2021 Coup d’État</i> by Aaron Connelly and Shona Loong (review)
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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
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Kyaw Hsan Hlaing @kyawhsanhlaing.com · 17/04/2025
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...
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Myanmar’s Earthquake Exposes Political Fault Lines
The junta has exploited past crises to reinforce its power—and it can do it again.
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Dr Shona Loong @shonaloong.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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...
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After the Myanmar Earthquake, Crisis Fatigue Reaches New Depths
Myanmar’s people confront a sense that the country’s crises are escalating in scale, even as foreign support becomes more difficult to secure.
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