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“Build the New City as Fast as Possible”: Speculation as Subsistence in Peri‐Urban Myanmar

Antipode, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines an ambitious plan to construct a built‐from‐scratch new city outside Yangon, Myanmar and sheds light on the contradictory responses sparked by rapid urban expansion. Despite fears that this megaproject would threaten the region's way of life, hopes for the new city's construction remained high throughout the project's ...
Courtney T. Wittekind
wiley   +1 more source

The Corridor as Commodity: Enclosure, Legibility, and Uneven Development in Southeast Asian Railway Projects

Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 930-952, May 2025.
Abstract Corridors are promoted as seamless solutions for economic development, integrating production and consumption networks. However, they often fall short, fail, and operate as tools of accumulation for some while unevenly and, at times, violently reshaping the lives of others.
Jessica DiCarlo, David Fernando Bachrach
wiley   +1 more source

Caring for the river‐border: Struggles and opportunities along the Salween River‐border

Area, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2025.
Abstract Geographers have shown how borders rely on the enactment of state power and violence to reinforce territorial integrity and sovereign authority, or even perpetuate the destruction of nature. Moving away from an emphasis on violence, in this paper, I take an approach to borders and bordering that emphasises the opportunities of the border when ...
Vanessa Lamb
wiley   +1 more source

Four Colonies and a Kingdom: A Comparison of Fiscal, Trade and Exchange Rate Policies in South East Asia in the 1930s [PDF]

, 2003
Booth, Anne
core   +1 more source

Migrating sands: Refocusing transboundary flows from water to sediment

Area, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2025.
Short Abstract Many transboundary river systems focus heavily on flows of water, with less consideration for flows of sediment. Here, it is argued that the two distinct natural cycles of water and sediment necessitate a rebalancing of transboundary cooperation frameworks to place water and sediment on an equal footing.
C. R. Hackney
wiley   +1 more source

Trading in troubled times: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic, military coup, and Chinese border closure on the Kachin amber industry

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper investigates the impact of Covid‐19, border closure, and the military coup on the mining and trading of Kachin amber in northern Myanmar. Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic and the 2021 military coup have dramatically affected the lives and livelihoods of communities across Myanmar.
Seng Lawn Dan, Alessandro Rippa
wiley   +1 more source

Nutritional and cooking quality superiority of black rice genotype BPT 2841 with enhanced lysine content. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Veni BK, Raja DS, Tushara M, Suneetha Y, Mrudhula KA.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Population mental health in Burma after 2021 military coup: online non-probability survey - CORRIGENDUM. [PDF]

BJPsych Open, 2023
Saw HW, Owens V, Morales SA, Rodriguez N, Kern C, Bach RL.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Informal Institutions and Multinationals' Drive Towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Dark‐Side Perspective

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the influence of informal institutions (including its dark side) on multinational enterprises (MNEs) in promoting sustainable development goals (SDGs) in a developing nation. Using qualitative interviews, we find that informal institutions, including “crime” and “corruption,” increase telecommunication MNEs' support of SDGs.
Ugbede Umoru, Oyedele Martins Ogundana, Musa Mangena, Victor Udeozor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From doubt to doctorate: Navigating imposter syndrome and thriving in physiology-based grad studies. [PDF]

Exp Physiol
Burma JS.
europepmc   +1 more source