Outputs (3)

Young people’s everyday pathways into drug harms in Shan State, Myanmar (2022)
Journal Article
Meehan, P., Sadan, M., Aung Hla, S., Kham Phu, S., & Muai Oo, N. (2022). Young people’s everyday pathways into drug harms in Shan State, Myanmar. Third World Quarterly, 43(11), 2712-2730. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2022.2090923

In recent decades, youth drug use has become a cause of increasing concern across Asia and has inspired hardening drug control measures. However, consistently missing from drug narratives is a deeper engagement with young people themselves on why the... Read More about Young people’s everyday pathways into drug harms in Shan State, Myanmar.

Brokered Rule: Militias, Drugs, and Borderland Governance in the Myanmar-China Borderlands (2022)
Journal Article
Meehan, P., & Dan, S. L. (2023). Brokered Rule: Militias, Drugs, and Borderland Governance in the Myanmar-China Borderlands. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 53(4), 561-583. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2022.2064327

This article develops the concept of brokerage to analyse the systems of borderland governance that have underpinned processes of state formation and capitalist development in the conflict-affected Myanmar-China borderland region of northern Shan Sta... Read More about Brokered Rule: Militias, Drugs, and Borderland Governance in the Myanmar-China Borderlands.

Difficult Development Trade-Offs Amidst 'Transition': Exploring Power and Politics in Post-2010 Myanmar (2022)
Book Chapter
Meehan, P. (2022). Difficult Development Trade-Offs Amidst 'Transition': Exploring Power and Politics in Post-2010 Myanmar. In C. Yamahata, & B. Anderson (Eds.), Demystifying Myanmar's Transition and Political Crisis (231-253). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6675-9_12

Development studies have often grappled with how to bridge the ‘theory/policy divide’ that exists within the discipline between an intellectual focus on historical processes of social change, and more practical objectives aimed at designing intervent... Read More about Difficult Development Trade-Offs Amidst 'Transition': Exploring Power and Politics in Post-2010 Myanmar.