Helene Maria Kyed & Justine Chambers
This special issue of the Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship presents new research on the politics and lived experiences of climate change in Myanmar’s post-coup crisis. It offers rare insights into how conflict-affected communities experience and interpret extreme weather events and environmental disruption while also having to navigate violent conflict, military dictatorship and economic crisis. The issue further explores how climate and environmental issues have become deeply entangled with political struggles over authority, territory, and international legitimacy, involving the military, resistance movements, and civil society activists.
Theoretically, the authors engage the concepts of rupture and chronic crisis to nuance understandings of the climate–conflict nexus. In doing so, it moves away from causal explanations centered on whether climate change triggers conflict towards a qualitative social science and historical exploration of how violent conflict dynamics shape climate vulnerabilities and the politics of climate change. Methodologically it builds off in situ fieldwork, remote community ethnographies, and digital research, adapted to the conflict situation.
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