Lawn Dan
Biographic Data
| ID | 176328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawn Dan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawn |
| FAMILY NAME | Dan |
| SIGNATURE | DAN L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Trading in troubled times: The impact of the Covid‐19 pandemic, military coup, and Chinese border closure on the Kachin amber industry
The COVID‐19 pandemic and the 2021 military coup have dramatically affected the lives and livelihoods of communities across Myanmar. Border areas in the north of the country also suffered from the prolonged closure of the Chinese border due to PRC COVID containment measures. The city of Ruili, the main trading hub between the two countries, witnessed one of China's strictest series of lockdowns, and its border with Myanmar remained largely closed…
Drugs and extractivism: Opium cultivation and drug use in the Myanmar-China borderlands
This paper explores the intersections between two phenomena that have shaped eastern Kachin State in Myanmar's northern borderlands with China since the late 1980s: the transformation of once-remote spaces into resource frontiers shaped by overlapping and cumulative forms of export-oriented resource extraction, and the upsurge of opium cultivation and drug use. Through the analytic of extractivism, we examine how the modalities surrounding loggin…
Brokered Rule: Militias, Drugs, and Borderland Governance in the Myanmar-China Borderlands
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 State since the late 1980s. It focuses on the brokerage arrangements that have developed between the Myanmar Army and local militias, and how the illegal drug trade has become integral to these systems o…
The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in Northern Myanmar, part one: Origins & reactions
The role of artisanal mining in the sustainable development of Myanmar’s jadeite industry
The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in northern Myanmar, part two: Deep culture & cultural psychology
Brokered Rule: Militias, Drugs, and Borderland Governance in the Myanmar-China Borderlands
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 State since the late 1980s. It focuses on the brokerage arrangements that have developed between the Myanmar Army and local militias, and how the illegal drug trade has become integral to these systems o…
The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in Northern Myanmar, part one: Origins & reactions
Drugs and extractivism: Opium cultivation and drug use in the Myanmar-China borderlands
This paper explores the intersections between two phenomena that have shaped eastern Kachin State in Myanmar's northern borderlands with China since the late 1980s: the transformation of once-remote spaces into resource frontiers shaped by overlapping and cumulative forms of export-oriented resource extraction, and the upsurge of opium cultivation and drug use. Through the analytic of extractivism, we examine how the modalities surrounding loggin…
The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in northern Myanmar, part two: Deep culture & cultural psychology
The role of artisanal mining in the sustainable development of Myanmar’s jadeite industry
The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in Northern Myanmar, part one: Origins & reactions
The role of artisanal mining in the sustainable development of Myanmar’s jadeite industry
The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in northern Myanmar, part two: Deep culture & cultural psychology
Brokered Rule: Militias, Drugs, and Borderland Governance in the Myanmar-China Borderlands
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 State since the late 1980s. It focuses on the brokerage arrangements that have developed between the Myanmar Army and local militias, and how the illegal drug trade has become integral to these systems o…
Drugs and extractivism: Opium cultivation and drug use in the Myanmar-China borderlands
This paper explores the intersections between two phenomena that have shaped eastern Kachin State in Myanmar's northern borderlands with China since the late 1980s: the transformation of once-remote spaces into resource frontiers shaped by overlapping and cumulative forms of export-oriented resource extraction, and the upsurge of opium cultivation and drug use. Through the analytic of extractivism, we examine how the modalities surrounding loggin…
Trading in troubled times: The impact of the Covid‐19 pandemic, military coup, and Chinese border closure on the Kachin amber industry
The COVID‐19 pandemic and the 2021 military coup have dramatically affected the lives and livelihoods of communities across Myanmar. Border areas in the north of the country also suffered from the prolonged closure of the Chinese border due to PRC COVID containment measures. The city of Ruili, the main trading hub between the two countries, witnessed one of China's strictest series of lockdowns, and its border with Myanmar remained largely closed…
Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Cambodian History and Society (3 works) · China (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (3 works)