Life on the land after Myanmar’s military coup
Land, Labor, Love & Revolution
Women’s work is critical to revolutionary projects, yet is often written out of war stories. After the 2021 Myanmar military coup, new and renewed patterns of violence, displacement and resistance spread across the countryside, disrupting and reworking agrarian life. Bringing together interdisciplinary feminist insights from the fields of war studies, political ecology, and geography, this project draws on methodologies such as participatory photography and critical mapping to understand gendered relations of land, labor, and love in the Myanmar Spring Revolution. Through collaborations with farmers, artists, and activists, we seek both to document everyday experience and to enact a more emancipatory politics.
This project is co-led by Hilary Faxon and Jenny Hedström. Our collaborators include: Zin Mar Phyo, Mi Mi, Htoi Pan, Moe Kha Yae, Ka Yay, JC, Nicole Venker, and Fortify Rights.
