Political Economy

Senior Researchers of Nyan Corridor is currently undertaking two main research works in the field of Political Economy:

1. Capitalist Resource Frontier Making, Extractivism/Neo-Extractivism and State Making in Myanmar
2. The Nexus of Agrarian Change, Capitalist Accumulations and Climate Change in Indo-Myanmar Border Areas.

The Critical Political Economy theories are applied in the research works. The former one explores how the State Making by newly emerged political authorities resisting Myanmar State under the military rule of the junta is being occurred in the context of global capitalist resource frontier making. The later one explore how indigenous Naga agrarian society of Indo-Myanmar Border has been transformed by gradual but in faster move of capitalist encroachments in the context of climate change. Both research works are at the stage of data collection.

Senior Researchers at Nyan Corridor are currently undertaking two major research projects in the field of political economy:

1. Capitalist Resource Frontier Making, Extractivism/Neo-Extractivism, and State Making in Myanmar; and
2. The Nexus of Agrarian Change, Capitalist Accumulation, and Climate Change in the Indo–Myanmar Border Areas.

Both projects apply critical political economy theories. The first project examines how state-making processes carried out by newly emergent political authorities resisting the Myanmar state under military junta rule are unfolding within the context of global capitalist resource frontier expansion. The second project investigates how the indigenous Naga agrarian society in the Indo–Myanmar border region has been transformed by gradual yet increasingly rapid capitalist encroachments under conditions of climate change.

Both research projects are currently at the data collection stage.

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