P Meehan
Biographic Data
| ID | 47316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Meehan |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Meehan |
| SIGNATURE | MEEHAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4672-770X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Myanmar borderlands as a green energy transition ‘sacrifice zone: A case study of rare earth mining in Kachin state
Rare earth elements (REEs) are integral to global green energy initiatives. • Myanmar's conflict-affected borderlands have become a major source of REEs. • The extraction of REEs is driving social and environmental harms in Myanmar. • Greater focus is needed on who and where bears the costs of the energy transition. • The just transition must prioritise the experiences of those in sacrifice zones. This article examines the challenges of achieving…
The political economy of illicit drug crops: Forum Introduction
This article and the forum it introduces examine illicit drug crop (IDC) economies from agrarian perspectives. Examining IDCs as a group implies analysing how prohibition distinguishes them from other (licit) crops. We identify seven mechanisms through which prohibition shapes the agrarian political economy of IDCs and explore how these mechanisms and their effects generate distinctive patterns of development and political action amongst 'illicit…
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…
Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries: Towards a Comparative Research Agenda
A defining character of drugs-affected frontier regions is their dynamic instability and their boom-and-bust cycles. These are violent and disturbed landscapes, in which illicit drug economies play a transformative role. But not all frontiers are the same, and nor are the 'illicit peasantries' who inhabit the 'narco-frontier'. In this article we explore the complex dialectical relations between frontiers, drug economies, illicit peasantries and p…
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…
Young people’s everyday pathways into drug harms in Shan State, Myanmar
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 they use drugs and an understanding of the social, political, economic and cultural forces that shape their interactions with drugs. By engaging with the lived experiences of young people in the Myanmar …
“Ploughing the land five times”: Opium and agrarian change in the ceasefire landscapes of south‐western Shan State, Myanmar
This paper explores the relationship between the illicit opium economy and processes of agrarian change in south‐western Shan State, Myanmar. This is a region where opium production has risen significantly since the 1990s despite the declining territorial control of insurgent groups long blamed for the country's illegal drug economy and alongside the deepening integration of the region's agriculture sector into national and global markets. This p…
The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in Northern Myanmar, part one: Origins & reactions
Laboratory-based coursework in parallel processing using the transputer
The design of a low cost, target transputer system is described, along with code development facilities, that allows the concepts of parallel processing to be taught in a practical manner. Outlines of eight graded exercises are also included as an indication of how the system might be used in an undergraduate laboratory. >
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 Myanmar borderlands as a green energy transition ‘sacrifice zone: A case study of rare earth mining in Kachin state
Rare earth elements (REEs) are integral to global green energy initiatives. • Myanmar's conflict-affected borderlands have become a major source of REEs. • The extraction of REEs is driving social and environmental harms in Myanmar. • Greater focus is needed on who and where bears the costs of the energy transition. • The just transition must prioritise the experiences of those in sacrifice zones. This article examines the challenges of achieving…
Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries: Towards a Comparative Research Agenda
A defining character of drugs-affected frontier regions is their dynamic instability and their boom-and-bust cycles. These are violent and disturbed landscapes, in which illicit drug economies play a transformative role. But not all frontiers are the same, and nor are the 'illicit peasantries' who inhabit the 'narco-frontier'. In this article we explore the complex dialectical relations between frontiers, drug economies, illicit peasantries and p…
The political economy of illicit drug crops: Forum Introduction
This article and the forum it introduces examine illicit drug crop (IDC) economies from agrarian perspectives. Examining IDCs as a group implies analysing how prohibition distinguishes them from other (licit) crops. We identify seven mechanisms through which prohibition shapes the agrarian political economy of IDCs and explore how these mechanisms and their effects generate distinctive patterns of development and political action amongst 'illicit…
Young people’s everyday pathways into drug harms in Shan State, Myanmar
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 they use drugs and an understanding of the social, political, economic and cultural forces that shape their interactions with drugs. By engaging with the lived experiences of young people in the Myanmar …
Laboratory-based coursework in parallel processing using the transputer
The design of a low cost, target transputer system is described, along with code development facilities, that allows the concepts of parallel processing to be taught in a practical manner. Outlines of eight graded exercises are also included as an indication of how the system might be used in an undergraduate laboratory. >
“Ploughing the land five times”: Opium and agrarian change in the ceasefire landscapes of south‐western Shan State, Myanmar
This paper explores the relationship between the illicit opium economy and processes of agrarian change in south‐western Shan State, Myanmar. This is a region where opium production has risen significantly since the 1990s despite the declining territorial control of insurgent groups long blamed for the country's illegal drug economy and alongside the deepening integration of the region's agriculture sector into national and global markets. This p…
The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in Northern Myanmar, part one: Origins & reactions
Young people’s everyday pathways into drug harms in Shan State, Myanmar
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 they use drugs and an understanding of the social, political, economic and cultural forces that shape their interactions with drugs. By engaging with the lived experiences of young people in the Myanmar …
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 Myanmar borderlands as a green energy transition ‘sacrifice zone: A case study of rare earth mining in Kachin state
Rare earth elements (REEs) are integral to global green energy initiatives. • Myanmar's conflict-affected borderlands have become a major source of REEs. • The extraction of REEs is driving social and environmental harms in Myanmar. • Greater focus is needed on who and where bears the costs of the energy transition. • The just transition must prioritise the experiences of those in sacrifice zones. This article examines the challenges of achieving…
The political economy of illicit drug crops: Forum Introduction
This article and the forum it introduces examine illicit drug crop (IDC) economies from agrarian perspectives. Examining IDCs as a group implies analysing how prohibition distinguishes them from other (licit) crops. We identify seven mechanisms through which prohibition shapes the agrarian political economy of IDCs and explore how these mechanisms and their effects generate distinctive patterns of development and political action amongst 'illicit…
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…
Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries: Towards a Comparative Research Agenda
A defining character of drugs-affected frontier regions is their dynamic instability and their boom-and-bust cycles. These are violent and disturbed landscapes, in which illicit drug economies play a transformative role. But not all frontiers are the same, and nor are the 'illicit peasantries' who inhabit the 'narco-frontier'. In this article we explore the complex dialectical relations between frontiers, drug economies, illicit peasantries and p…
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