Dr Justine Chambers
@DrJustineC
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Postdoctoral Researcher, anthropologist, at @diisdk exploring revolutionary politics, conflict & climate change in Myanmar. Author of ‘Pursuing Morality’ (2024)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Joined February 2013
Delighted to be visiting @ANUasiapacific in March to celebrate the release of my book, Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and everyday ethics in Southeastern Myanmar (@NUS_Press ). For anyone in Canberra on 28 March, please do join me for this celebration.
bellschool.anu.edu.au
Book Party - Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and everyday ethics in Southeastern Myanmar
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SAC isn't a government—it's an illegitimate regime from a 2021 coup. Now labeling the KNU as "terrorists," the junta itself is the actual terrorist organization: bombing civilians, mass arrests, violating international law. https://t.co/8kGJSuwNMD
#SACTerrorists #MAHTerrorist
nbcnews.com
The group has been engaged in especially fierce combat with the army since the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021.
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‘To generate knowledge in the context of hunger is to think through pain… To insist, against all odds, that Gaza still thinks, still questions, still creates. That, in itself, is an act of resistance.’
theguardian.com
It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter
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This is a collective fight. Their case will determine the extent of academic freedom in Australia. Please consider making a donation.
In Australia’s Federal Court my colleague @NickRiemer1 and I are facing absurd charges of ‘racial hatred’ (‘antisemitism’) for publicly condemning Israel’s war crimes; we need your help! wherever you are, please support us!
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Six months after the US cut life-saving costs to civil society organizations supporting the most vulnerable in #Burma and along the border, thousands continue to suffer in the aftermath. Timely op-ed by @uscb as they call for the reinstatement of funds. https://t.co/sLVBQyHtBq
asiatimes.com
In a forgotten corner of Southeast Asia, Pe Kha Lau, an elderly 71-year-old woman, passed quietly, shortly after the slashing of USAID funding, her life
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Attacks on the humanities are not new in Australia, but they are now more lethal as the routines of corporate logic have been instrumentalised by university managements keen to squeeze the last penny out of challenged operational budgets
theguardian.com
Punishing fees for arts degrees must be ended if the country seriously wants to take part in the information age and give students the opportunities we need them to have
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📢: 3x postdocs on extractivism & animism in #SoutheastAsia w/Judith Bovensiepen's @ERC_Research Resource Spirits project, Austrian Ac of Sciences. Great opp for #anthropologists of/from Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines - incs fieldwork funding
oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs
OeAW - Discovering the futureAs a central non-university institution for science and research, the Austrian Academy of Sciences - OeAW has the task of "promoting science in every respect". Founded in
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#Thailand's plan to arrest US academic Paul Chambers on lese majeste (article 112) charge is “an astonishing and outrageous assault on academic freedom that will have a serious chilling effect on international studies in Thailand” - read about it here in the @BangkokPostNews!
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Great piece from @maggiquadrini and Maw Baw Meh highlighting the tragedy of the earthquake in Myanmar and the unique vulnerabilities facing women and girls https://t.co/yig38DhVHN
myanmar-now.org
As with past disasters, last week’s earthquake is expected to have a disparate impact on women, and the need for a response that is sensitive to the needs of the vulnerable and disadvantaged has...
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The tangible effects of Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts are on display right now in Myanmar, say USAID officials. America’s disaster relief capabilities, the biggest and best in the world, are immobilized while the death toll in Myanmar’s earthquake climbs up and up. @washingtonpost
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1/2: As #Myanmar reels from a massive earthquake, remember the uprising against its brutal military regime. Teen fighters like the remarkable Anina defend their homes when they should be building their futures. Pics by @MongelliValeria for @guardian
https://t.co/aMa6J3HZtY
theguardian.com
The country’s drawn out conflict has seen children recruited as soldiers on all sides. At the age of 18, Anina is a seasoned fighter with a feared reputation in her all-male resistance unit
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Many areas still have not been reached esp #Sagaing, the most effected and closet to the epicenter of the #MyanmarEarthquake. https://t.co/HuQMR9Sp7d
apnews.com
The smell of decaying bodies permeated the streets of Myanmar’s second-largest city on Sunday as people worked frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of finding someone still alive, two days...
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Myanmar’s junta has continued attacks even after the devastating earthquake. This map shows where. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #MyanmarEarthquake
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#KNU said the junta "continues to carry out airstrikes targeting civilian areas, even as the population suffers tremendously from the earthquake". "deploying forces to attack its people". A spokesman for the junta did not reply to queries from Reuters about the criticism.
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The earthquake has exposed the regime's near-zero capacity to provide emergency aid to victims. Despite this, airstrikes continue daily across the country. Our tracker has recorded 16+ airstrikes in Sagaing, Magway, Bago, Shan, Karen, Rakhine, and Kachin within just four days.
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The groups say the regime must not be allowed to exploit overseas assistance or deny access to resistance-held areas hit by last Friday’s massive quake Read more: https://t.co/477FO4NwYi
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💢 Urgent Appeal for Localized Humanitarian Assistance Without Supporting Junta | #MyanmarEarthquake Aid must prioritize gender-sensitive support, ensuring menstrual aid, safe shelters, and medical care for women, especially pregnant women, new mothers, and infants.
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Myanmar’s junta is still bombing in spite of a devastating earthquake and a ceasefire announced by some opponents in the face of the disaster, reports @IrrawaddyNews. Air raids even took place near the epicentre as well as northern Shan State, it said. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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We are launching our new Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian Studies! This one-year fellowship, starting September 1, 2025, is designed to support emerging scholars whose research focuses on historical, modern, or contemporary Asia and Asian diasporas. https://t.co/UlFmWal8xc
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