Journal articles
*Open access
Loong, S. (2026). Decolonising civil war: warscapes as relational conjunctures in post-coup Myanmar. Geopolitics. DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2026.2659598.*
Loong, S. (2026). Foreign aid, civil society, and post-colonial statebuilding in the Thai-Myanmar borderworld. Development and Change, 57(2), 289-314.*
Loong, S. (2025). Volunteering while researching conflict and violence: reflections on listening, solidarity, and decoloniality in Myanmar's borderlands. Asia Pacific Viewpoint. DOI: 10.1111/apv.70030.*
Loong, S., Clare, L. C., and Sunita (Naw Moo) (2025). Tending to territories of life: Indigeneity, gender, and peacebuilding in the Salween Peace Park. Journal of Burma Studies, 29(2), 229-275.
Loong, S. (2025). More-than-rebel territory: war, resistance, and relations in the Salween Peace Park. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 115(5), 1165-1184.*
Constantinou, C. M., McConnell, F., Dirik, D., Regassa, A., Loong, S., & Kuokkanen, R. (2025). Reimagining self-determination: relational, decolonial, and intersectional perspectives. Political Geography, 103112.*
Loong, S., Manby, A., & McConnell, F. (2025). Rethinking self-determination: colonial and relational geographies in Asia. Territory, Politics, Governance, 13(7), 901-919.*
Loong, S. (2023). ‘We have big ideas, but only small words’: The post-war geographies of civil society and community in Karen State. Geoforum, 147, 103891.*
Loong, S. (2023). In Myanmar, Generation Z goes to war. Current History, 122(843), 137-142.
Mostafanezhad, M., Farnan, R. A., & Loong, S. (2023). Sovereign anxiety in Myanmar: An emotional geopolitics of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 48(1), 132-148.*
Loong, S. (2019) The neoliberal borderscape: Neoliberalism's effects on the social worlds of migrants along the Thai-Myanmar border. Political Geography, 74. 102035.
Loong, S. (2018) ‘This country, law very strong’: Securitization beyond the border in the everyday lives of Bangladeshi migrant workers in Singapore. Geoforum, 90: 11-19.
Loong, S. and Woon, C.Y. (2017) The precarious geopolitics of urban encounters in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005). Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 99(1).
Books
Connelly, A., and Loong, S. (2024). New Answers to Old Questions: Myanmar Before and After the 2021 Coup d'etat. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. [First chapter is free]
Book chapters
Loong, S. (2025). Thai-Myanmar borderland as a frontier space. In Gray, K. W. (ed.), Global Encyclopaedia of Territorial Rights, Cham: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68846-6_854-1.*
Loong, S. (2025). "As a Karen, I have no leader": youth, conflict, and generational change in Hpa-An, Karen State. In Yamahata, C., and Takeda, M. (eds.), Youth, Community, and Democracy in India, Myanmar, and Thailand, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 79-96.*
Loong, S. (2024). War and geography. In Warf, B. (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Cham: Springer, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-25900-5_316-1.*
Connelly, A., and Loong, S. (2023). Conflict in Myanmar and the international response. In Huxley, T., and Kuok, L. (eds.), Asia Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2023, London: The International Institute for Strategic Studies, pp. 138-159.*
Loong, S., Hsar Doe Doh Moo, and Palmano, C. (in press). With what we have saved, not what has been taken from us: how indigenous Karen communities conceptualise peace through the Salween Peace Park. In Chambers, J., Gravers, M., and Walton, M. (eds.), Ceasefire Aspirations and Anxieties Among the Karen in Myanmar, Copenhagen: NIAS Press.
