This post is an adapted version of an article that appears in a special edition of the Journal of Contemporary Asia on “Revolution and Solidarity in Myanmar” (Vol 54 No 5). Before the 2021 military ...

Dr Cecile Medail is a senior research officer at ANU’s Myanmar Research Centre. Her research interests include democratisation, identity politics and social movements, with a specific focus on Myanmar ...

I arrive at the office of Ajan Mala, a teacher at a Public Health School in southern Laos. We grab brooms, buckets, sponges and floor cleaner and she walks ahead of me towards the student dorm. As we ...

Amelie Katczynski is a PhD candidate at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, conducting anthropological research on the training of public health workers in Lao PDR.

Dr Nicholas Farrelly is the co-founder of New Mandala. A graduate of the Australian National University and the University of Oxford, over the past 20 years he has undertaken research in Thailand, ...

Indonesian Borneo has long been known for its gold mineral wealth—and its gold rushes. As Nancy Peluso has previously explored at New Mandala, not all of this gold mining occurs through large ...

Keith Barney is Associate Professor at the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy, where his research focuses on political ecology and natural resource policy across Southeast Asia. Rini Astuti is ...

Liam Gammon is the editor of New Mandala and Research Fellow at the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research at the Australian National University (ANU), where he also sits on the editorial board of ...

New Mandala provides anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on Southeast Asia. It devotes its attention to the politics and societies of Southeast Asian countries, and their connections with one ...

Nick Nostitz lived and worked in Thailand for 23 years as a photojournalist and writer, and has contributed extensively to New Mandala’s coverage of Thai political life and conflict since 2008. His ...

Natali Pearson works at the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre at the University of Sydney. She has a PhD in Museum and Heritage Studies, specialising in underwater cultural heritage in Indonesia. Natali is ...

Greg Fealy is emeritus professor at the Department of Political and Social Change at the Australian National University. He specialises in Indonesian Islamic politics and history. A pillar of ...