Between Transition and Revolution in Burma Studies - Along the Integral Margin: Uneven Development in a Myanmar Squatter Settlement and Forging the Nation: Land Struggles in Myanmar's Transition Period and Outsourcing the Polity: Non-state Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar and Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar

Rice yields have dropped in many parts of Myanmar since the 2021 military coup, as the army burns fields and farmers face droughts and inflated input costs. But 2023 brought a bumper crop for books in Burma studies. The seeds were planted in a different time, when the mood was heady in Yangon's art galleries and business towers, and activists seemed to sleep only on the tedious bus trips to Nay Pyi Taw. Along with malls and mobile internet, the short-lived reforms of the 2010s brought a flock of researchers, myself among them, into the study of Myanmar. We were the generation hailed by Robert Taylor's assessment: “From being an academic backwater in which a learned paper could empty a seminar room faster than a call to drinks, now Myanmar political studies fill whole lecture theatres with newcomers hoping to understand Myanmar's politics so that they can change them.”^1...