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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perspectives on the Past (PoP) is a research and reading group within the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC) at the University of Sydney. Our disciplinary backgrounds are diverse: archaeology, ...

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 ...

Edoardo Siani is an anthropologist who writes about Buddhist cosmology and power in contemporary Thailand. Based in Bangkok since 2002, he received his PhD in anthropology and sociology from SOAS, ...

Rungrawee Chalermsripinyorat commenced her PhD at the Australian National University’s Department of Political and Social Change in February 2015. She holds a BA in Journalism from Bangkok’s Thammasat ...