Dr Shona Loong
@shonaloong.bsky.social
Conflict, aid politics, #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar | SNSF Ambizione Fellow @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social | Prev University of Zurich and @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
https://www.shonaloong.com
https://www.shonaloong.com
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‘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.
‘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.
Reposted by Dr Shona Loong
“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.
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Reposted to correct Dr. Loong's name.
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September 28, 2026 at 3:37 PM
“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....
Reposted to correct Dr. Loong's name.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Dr Shona Loong
'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....
New article by Shona Long and Laure Siegel
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 18, 2026 at 11:42 AM
'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....
New article by Shona Long and Laure Siegel
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘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.
‘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.
September 15, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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‘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.
‘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.
🧵 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....
Open-access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
January 27, 2026 at 2:52 PM
🧵 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....
Open-access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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....
Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
January 12, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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....
Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Dr Shona Loong
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)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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)
Reposted by Dr Shona Loong
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
September 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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
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
🕘 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
August 27, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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
🕘 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
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...
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...
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.
teacirclemyanmar.com
July 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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...
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...
Reposted by Dr Shona Loong
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
I hope to shed some light on this with my new open access article: doi.org/10.1080/0047...
Some takeaways🧵1/8
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 ...
doi.org
May 13, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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
I hope to shed some light on this with my new open access article: doi.org/10.1080/0047...
Some takeaways🧵1/8
Reposted by Dr Shona Loong
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/...
By @emilyfishbein11.bsky.social and Me
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
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.
www.aljazeera.com
May 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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/...
By @emilyfishbein11.bsky.social and Me
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
Reposted by Dr Shona Loong
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!
🧵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
In the Annals of the AAG, I write about post/decolonial approaches to territory & the #SalweenPeacePark
doi.org/10.1080/2469... @geographers.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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!
Reposted by Dr Shona Loong
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...
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)
muse.jhu.edu
April 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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...
🧵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
In the Annals of the AAG, I write about post/decolonial approaches to territory & the #SalweenPeacePark
doi.org/10.1080/2469... @geographers.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🧵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
In the Annals of the AAG, I write about post/decolonial approaches to territory & the #SalweenPeacePark
doi.org/10.1080/2469... @geographers.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr Shona Loong
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...
“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...
Myanmar’s Earthquake Exposes Political Fault Lines
The junta has exploited past crises to reinforce its power—and it can do it again.
foreignpolicy.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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.
thediplomat.com
April 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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...
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...