D Brenner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 26401 |
|---|---|
| NOME | D Brenner |
| PRENOMES | D |
| SOBRENOME | Brenner |
| ASSINATURA | BRENNER D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6667-6914 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 124 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
When the state grabs you by the balls
Expansion without Erasure
Rebel Politics after the Coup
Ethnic armed organisations or EAOs play a pivotal role in the revolutionary war against Myanmar’s junta. These ethno-national rebel movements have not only captured large swathes of territory, but they have also been crucial in transforming resistance into revolutionary warfare in the first place. The early support of some EAOs for the Spring Revolution was instrumental in this transformation. However, this support was not self-evident, especiall…
Myanmar in 2023
In 2023, revolutionary forces made significant gains in an escalating war against an increasingly embattled military dictatorship. Since General Min Aung Hlaing ousted the democratically elected government in a military coup on February 1, 2021, his junta has failed to subdue the countrywide Spring Revolution resisting the military takeover. This is despite the generals’ terror campaign of atrocious violence against the population. In 2021, many …
Rebels, vigilantes and mavericks
COVID-19 has exposed profound governance challenges that demand more diverse and creative approaches to global health governance moving forward. This article works towards such a pluralization of the field by foregrounding the vital role played by heterodox actors during the pandemic. Heterodox global health actors are backgrounded actors who improve health in different parts of the world, but who remain politically marginalized – and epistemical…
Defending Society, Building the Nation
Rebel groups govern significant parts of territory worldwide. They often deliver crucial public goods and services to populations under their control. Scholarship on rebel governance commonly explains this with the need for armed groups to generate local and international legitimacy. We argue that this understanding of rebel governance as an instrumental means to power is insufficient. Instead, we propose a novel conceptualization of rebel govern…
Forgotten Conflicts
Security studies privileges the study of civil wars in some contexts over others. The field's leading journals mostly publish studies of armed conflicts in Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Armed conflicts in Asia receive comparatively little attention, despite their prevalence and protracted nature. Against the background of our own empirical archive—the decades-old but largely ignored civil war in Myanmar—we ask why some conflicts dr…
Myanmar’s Top-Down Transition
This article historicises the nature of political transition in Myanmar to better appreciate the challenges faced by civil society. After Myanmar’s political reforms in 2011, Western donors rushed into the country in support of what they misunderstood as a remarkable instance of democratisation. In 2019, escalating civil war, ethnic cleansing, and contracting civil liberties urge a rethink. This article argues that viewing transition in Myanmar t…
Rebel Politics
Rebel Politics analyzes the changing dynamics of the civil war in Myanmar, one of the most entrenched armed conflicts in the world. Since 2011, a national peace process has gone hand-in-hand with escalating ethnic conflict. The Karen National Union (KNU), previously known for its uncompromising stance against the central government of Myanmar, became a leader in the peace process after it signed a ceasefire in 2012. Meanwhile, the Kachin Independ…
Performing Rebellion
In explaining political violence, Conflict and Security Studies commonly focuses on the rational decision-making of elites. In contrast, this article considers the everyday aspirations of rebel grassroots. Understanding their lifeworlds is important, as their interaction with rebel elites shapes the collective trajectories of revolutionary movements and, thus, wider dynamics of war and peace. This article analyzes the social practice of revolutio…
Inside the Karen Insurgency
Since 2012 Myanmar’s oldest ethnic rebel group, the Karen National Union (KNU), has sought for considerable rapprochement with the government. To many, this seemed to be the direct outcome of wider political transition in Myanmar. This article proposes an alternative explanation. Based on extensive field research and an emerging literature on armed groups, it demonstrates that the group’s rapprochement with the government was driven by leadership…
Authority in rebel groups
This article asks how rebel leaders capture and lose legitimacy within their own movement. Analysing these complex and often uneasy relations between elites and grassroots of insurgency is important for understanding the success or failure of peace processes. This is because internal contestation over authority between rival rebel leaders can drive a movement's external strategy. Based on ethnographic research on the Karen and Kachin rebellions i…
Ashes of co-optation
This article argues that attempts to buy insurgency out of violence can achieve temporary stability but risk producing new conflict. While co-optation with economic incentives might work in parts of a movement, it can spark ripple effects in others. These unanticipated developments result from the interactions of differently situated elite and non-elite actors, which can create a momentum of their own in driving collective behaviour. This article…
P2-31 Association between plasma vitamin D and metabolic syndrome in the Canadian population
Background Vitamin D deficiency has been implicated in the susceptibility to the metabolic syndrome and a spectrum of conditions, such as obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The present study aimed to quantify the association between vitamin D serum levels and the occurrence of metabolic syndrome components and insulin resistance among Canadian adults. Methods Vitamin D serum levels and the related clinical data were extracted from 1920 subject…
P2-32 Vitamin D in the prediction of metabolic syndrome
Background The association between vitamin D (VitD) and cardiometabolic health has been described however the ability of VitD to predict metabolic syndrome (MetSyn) beyond individual demographics and common lifestyle factors is unclear. Methods 1799 adults from the Canadian Health Measures Survey, a nationally representative survey were examined. MetSyn was defined based on the National Cholesterol Education Program's Adult Treatment Panel III cr…
P2-33 The impact of the metabolic syndrome on cardiometabolic and inflammatory profiles among Canadian adults
Background The metabolic syndrome (MetSyn) is known as a precursor condition for a spectrum of cardiometabolic complications including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The present analysis aimed to quantify the differences in serum levels of cardiometabolic and inflammatory markers across the number of MetSyn components among Canadian adults. Methods Serum levels of apolipoprotein A1 and B (ApoA1, B), creatine, total cholesterol/HDL ch…
Performative Pedagogy
Global patterns of the isotopic composition of soil and plant nitrogen
We compiled new and published data on the natural abundance N isotope composition (δ 15 N values) of soil and plant organic matter from around the world. Across a broad range of climate and ecosystem types, we found that soil and plant δ 15 N values systematically decreased with increasing mean annual precipitation (MAP) and decreasing mean annual temperature (MAT). Because most undisturbed soils are near N steady state, the observations suggest …
Junge judische Literatur. Konzentrisches Schreiben in der Gegenwart
Ashes of co-optation
This article argues that attempts to buy insurgency out of violence can achieve temporary stability but risk producing new conflict. While co-optation with economic incentives might work in parts of a movement, it can spark ripple effects in others. These unanticipated developments result from the interactions of differently situated elite and non-elite actors, which can create a momentum of their own in driving collective behaviour. This article…
Authority in rebel groups
This article asks how rebel leaders capture and lose legitimacy within their own movement. Analysing these complex and often uneasy relations between elites and grassroots of insurgency is important for understanding the success or failure of peace processes. This is because internal contestation over authority between rival rebel leaders can drive a movement's external strategy. Based on ethnographic research on the Karen and Kachin rebellions i…
Forgotten Conflicts
Security studies privileges the study of civil wars in some contexts over others. The field's leading journals mostly publish studies of armed conflicts in Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Armed conflicts in Asia receive comparatively little attention, despite their prevalence and protracted nature. Against the background of our own empirical archive—the decades-old but largely ignored civil war in Myanmar—we ask why some conflicts dr…
Inside the Karen Insurgency
Since 2012 Myanmar’s oldest ethnic rebel group, the Karen National Union (KNU), has sought for considerable rapprochement with the government. To many, this seemed to be the direct outcome of wider political transition in Myanmar. This article proposes an alternative explanation. Based on extensive field research and an emerging literature on armed groups, it demonstrates that the group’s rapprochement with the government was driven by leadership…
Defending Society, Building the Nation
Rebel groups govern significant parts of territory worldwide. They often deliver crucial public goods and services to populations under their control. Scholarship on rebel governance commonly explains this with the need for armed groups to generate local and international legitimacy. We argue that this understanding of rebel governance as an instrumental means to power is insufficient. Instead, we propose a novel conceptualization of rebel govern…
Performing Rebellion
In explaining political violence, Conflict and Security Studies commonly focuses on the rational decision-making of elites. In contrast, this article considers the everyday aspirations of rebel grassroots. Understanding their lifeworlds is important, as their interaction with rebel elites shapes the collective trajectories of revolutionary movements and, thus, wider dynamics of war and peace. This article analyzes the social practice of revolutio…
Myanmar’s Top-Down Transition
This article historicises the nature of political transition in Myanmar to better appreciate the challenges faced by civil society. After Myanmar’s political reforms in 2011, Western donors rushed into the country in support of what they misunderstood as a remarkable instance of democratisation. In 2019, escalating civil war, ethnic cleansing, and contracting civil liberties urge a rethink. This article argues that viewing transition in Myanmar t…
Myanmar in 2023
In 2023, revolutionary forces made significant gains in an escalating war against an increasingly embattled military dictatorship. Since General Min Aung Hlaing ousted the democratically elected government in a military coup on February 1, 2021, his junta has failed to subdue the countrywide Spring Revolution resisting the military takeover. This is despite the generals’ terror campaign of atrocious violence against the population. In 2021, many …
Performative Pedagogy
Rebels, vigilantes and mavericks
COVID-19 has exposed profound governance challenges that demand more diverse and creative approaches to global health governance moving forward. This article works towards such a pluralization of the field by foregrounding the vital role played by heterodox actors during the pandemic. Heterodox global health actors are backgrounded actors who improve health in different parts of the world, but who remain politically marginalized – and epistemical…
Junge judische Literatur. Konzentrisches Schreiben in der Gegenwart
Global patterns of the isotopic composition of soil and plant nitrogen
We compiled new and published data on the natural abundance N isotope composition (δ 15 N values) of soil and plant organic matter from around the world. Across a broad range of climate and ecosystem types, we found that soil and plant δ 15 N values systematically decreased with increasing mean annual precipitation (MAP) and decreasing mean annual temperature (MAT). Because most undisturbed soils are near N steady state, the observations suggest …
Performative Pedagogy
P2-31 Association between plasma vitamin D and metabolic syndrome in the Canadian population
Background Vitamin D deficiency has been implicated in the susceptibility to the metabolic syndrome and a spectrum of conditions, such as obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The present study aimed to quantify the association between vitamin D serum levels and the occurrence of metabolic syndrome components and insulin resistance among Canadian adults. Methods Vitamin D serum levels and the related clinical data were extracted from 1920 subject…
P2-32 Vitamin D in the prediction of metabolic syndrome
Background The association between vitamin D (VitD) and cardiometabolic health has been described however the ability of VitD to predict metabolic syndrome (MetSyn) beyond individual demographics and common lifestyle factors is unclear. Methods 1799 adults from the Canadian Health Measures Survey, a nationally representative survey were examined. MetSyn was defined based on the National Cholesterol Education Program's Adult Treatment Panel III cr…
P2-33 The impact of the metabolic syndrome on cardiometabolic and inflammatory profiles among Canadian adults
Background The metabolic syndrome (MetSyn) is known as a precursor condition for a spectrum of cardiometabolic complications including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The present analysis aimed to quantify the differences in serum levels of cardiometabolic and inflammatory markers across the number of MetSyn components among Canadian adults. Methods Serum levels of apolipoprotein A1 and B (ApoA1, B), creatine, total cholesterol/HDL ch…
Ashes of co-optation
This article argues that attempts to buy insurgency out of violence can achieve temporary stability but risk producing new conflict. While co-optation with economic incentives might work in parts of a movement, it can spark ripple effects in others. These unanticipated developments result from the interactions of differently situated elite and non-elite actors, which can create a momentum of their own in driving collective behaviour. This article…
Inside the Karen Insurgency
Since 2012 Myanmar’s oldest ethnic rebel group, the Karen National Union (KNU), has sought for considerable rapprochement with the government. To many, this seemed to be the direct outcome of wider political transition in Myanmar. This article proposes an alternative explanation. Based on extensive field research and an emerging literature on armed groups, it demonstrates that the group’s rapprochement with the government was driven by leadership…
Authority in rebel groups
This article asks how rebel leaders capture and lose legitimacy within their own movement. Analysing these complex and often uneasy relations between elites and grassroots of insurgency is important for understanding the success or failure of peace processes. This is because internal contestation over authority between rival rebel leaders can drive a movement's external strategy. Based on ethnographic research on the Karen and Kachin rebellions i…
Performing Rebellion
In explaining political violence, Conflict and Security Studies commonly focuses on the rational decision-making of elites. In contrast, this article considers the everyday aspirations of rebel grassroots. Understanding their lifeworlds is important, as their interaction with rebel elites shapes the collective trajectories of revolutionary movements and, thus, wider dynamics of war and peace. This article analyzes the social practice of revolutio…
Myanmar’s Top-Down Transition
This article historicises the nature of political transition in Myanmar to better appreciate the challenges faced by civil society. After Myanmar’s political reforms in 2011, Western donors rushed into the country in support of what they misunderstood as a remarkable instance of democratisation. In 2019, escalating civil war, ethnic cleansing, and contracting civil liberties urge a rethink. This article argues that viewing transition in Myanmar t…
Rebel Politics
Rebel Politics analyzes the changing dynamics of the civil war in Myanmar, one of the most entrenched armed conflicts in the world. Since 2011, a national peace process has gone hand-in-hand with escalating ethnic conflict. The Karen National Union (KNU), previously known for its uncompromising stance against the central government of Myanmar, became a leader in the peace process after it signed a ceasefire in 2012. Meanwhile, the Kachin Independ…
Forgotten Conflicts
Security studies privileges the study of civil wars in some contexts over others. The field's leading journals mostly publish studies of armed conflicts in Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Armed conflicts in Asia receive comparatively little attention, despite their prevalence and protracted nature. Against the background of our own empirical archive—the decades-old but largely ignored civil war in Myanmar—we ask why some conflicts dr…
Defending Society, Building the Nation
Rebel groups govern significant parts of territory worldwide. They often deliver crucial public goods and services to populations under their control. Scholarship on rebel governance commonly explains this with the need for armed groups to generate local and international legitimacy. We argue that this understanding of rebel governance as an instrumental means to power is insufficient. Instead, we propose a novel conceptualization of rebel govern…
Rebels, vigilantes and mavericks
COVID-19 has exposed profound governance challenges that demand more diverse and creative approaches to global health governance moving forward. This article works towards such a pluralization of the field by foregrounding the vital role played by heterodox actors during the pandemic. Heterodox global health actors are backgrounded actors who improve health in different parts of the world, but who remain politically marginalized – and epistemical…
Myanmar in 2023
In 2023, revolutionary forces made significant gains in an escalating war against an increasingly embattled military dictatorship. Since General Min Aung Hlaing ousted the democratically elected government in a military coup on February 1, 2021, his junta has failed to subdue the countrywide Spring Revolution resisting the military takeover. This is despite the generals’ terror campaign of atrocious violence against the population. In 2021, many …
Expansion without Erasure
Rebel Politics after the Coup
Ethnic armed organisations or EAOs play a pivotal role in the revolutionary war against Myanmar’s junta. These ethno-national rebel movements have not only captured large swathes of territory, but they have also been crucial in transforming resistance into revolutionary warfare in the first place. The early support of some EAOs for the Spring Revolution was instrumental in this transformation. However, this support was not self-evident, especiall…
When the state grabs you by the balls
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