Journal articles
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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.
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Loong, S., Manby, A., and McConnell, F. (2023). Rethinking self-determination: colonial and relational geographies in Asia. Territory, Politics, Governance. DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2023.2232410.
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Loong, S. (2023). In Myanmar, Generation Z goes to war. Current History, 122(843), 137-142.
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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.
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Loong, S. (2019) The neoliberal borderscape: Neoliberalism's effects on the social worlds of migrants along the Thai-Myanmar border. Political Geography, 74. 102035.
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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.
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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).
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Book chapters
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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. [Available online]
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Loong, S. (in press). "As a Karen, I have no leader": youth, conflict, and generational change in Hpa-An, Karen State. In Myanmar's Changing Political Landscape: Old and New Struggles.
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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.
Reports
- Loong, S. (2022, June). Post-coup Myanmar in Six Warscapes. International Institute for Strategic Studies.
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Loong, S. (2022, April). The Karen National Union in Post-Coup Myanmar. Stimson Center.
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Loong, S. (2021, March) Centre-Periphery Relations in Myanmar: Leverage and Solidarity After the 1 February Coup. Trends in Southeast Asia, 9/2021, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.
Commentaries
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Loong, S. (2021) Hope and heartbreak: Karen communities in the wake of the coup. Tea Circle: A Forum for New Perspectives on Burma/Myanmar, 4 February 2021.
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Loong, S. (2020) Decolonial worldmaking, Burmese independence, and the Karen struggle. Tea Circle: A Forum for New Perspectives on Burma/Myanmar, 13 August 2020.
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Loong, S. (2020) Perspectives on war, peace, and Rebel Politics: peace inheres in social relations formed during war. Tea Circle: A Forum for New Perspectives on Burma/Myanmar, 15 April 2020. [Second part of four-part series.]
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Loong, S. (2019) Notes from the Salween Peace Park. New Mandala, 27 May 2019.
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Loong, S. and Rinehart, G. (2019) Post-secondary Education in Myanmar: Reform from the ground-up. Tea Circle: A Forum for New Perspectives on Burma/Myanmar, 18 February 2019.
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Loong, S. (2018) From battlefield to marketplace on the Thai–Myanmar border. New Mandala, 16 March 2018.
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