Nov 25, 2020
Millions of Burmese workers in Thailand are routinely underpaid, overworked and predated upon by a coercive police force. What is the labour regime under which these workers try to earn their livelihoods and how can we better understand the challenges they face? Dr Stephen Campbell, Assistant Professor in the School...
Nov 19, 2020
This is a recording of a webinar held by the Australian National University's College of Asia and the Pacific and the Myanmar Research Centre on November 19, 2020. Two Myanmar experts at the ANU convene and moderate a discussion with four researchers on the controversies and consequences of the 2020 elections, touching...
Nov 19, 2020
Anthropology! What is it good for? In this episode four PhD students of Anthropology at the Australian National University discuss their research into Burmese tea, tomatoes, beer and of course, the people of Myanmar. This is a special collaborative episode with The Familiar Strange, an Anthropology-focused podcast of...
Nov 3, 2020
Elections expert Su Mon Thant and Ben Dunant, Managing Editor at Frontier Myanmar, converse on whether the upcoming 2020 elections represent a backwards step for the institutionalisation of democracy in the country. They focus on the UEC, political parties and the effects of COVID-19 in this deliberative and...