Stephen Campbell
@stephen-campbell.bsky.social
My new article on debt-bondage among Myanmar migrant fishermen who labour in the southern Thai port-city of Ranong.
Of human bondage: Tales of migrant fishermen in Thailand - Stephen Campbell, 2025
The mainstream anti-trafficking movement asserts a sharp distinction between freedom and unfreedom—between “free” waged employment, on the one hand, and “modern...
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June 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
My new article on debt-bondage among Myanmar migrant fishermen who labour in the southern Thai port-city of Ranong.
My new article on increased police extortion of Myanmar migrants in Thailand since Myanmar's 2021 military coup: "Navigating Thailand's extortion regime."
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May 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
My new article on increased police extortion of Myanmar migrants in Thailand since Myanmar's 2021 military coup: "Navigating Thailand's extortion regime."
Upcoming online course I'll be facilitating for the Asian Labour School.
What Can Myanmar’s Labour History Teach Us?
We put the history and present of capitalist development and labour struggles in Burma/Myanmar into conversation with concepts and arguments in contemporary labour theory.
labourschool.org
March 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Upcoming online course I'll be facilitating for the Asian Labour School.
See you there, comrades.
Historical Materialism Conference in East and Southeast Asia 2025 - Historical Materialism
Since the mid-2010s, East and Southeast Asia have witnessed an unending chain of uneven uprisings against interlocking oppressive processes of racial capitalist accumulation. This new conjuncture has ...
www.historicalmaterialism.org
March 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
See you there, comrades.
My commentary in Le Monde Diplomatique on connections between working conditions, labour struggles, and the revolution in Myanmar.
Au Myanmar, derrière les fusils, les travailleurs
En kiosques // par Stephen Campbell (janvier 2025)
www.monde-diplomatique.fr
January 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
My commentary in Le Monde Diplomatique on connections between working conditions, labour struggles, and the revolution in Myanmar.
My new article out in American Anthropologist: "The ethnographic crime scene: Tracing the violence within market relations on the Thai-Myanmar border" doi.org/10.1111/aman...
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In a world of proliferating displacement crises and restricted mobility pathways, low-wage labor migration has become, for many, a more feasible refuge than formal asylum. The refugee-as-displaced-mi...
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December 3, 2024 at 11:23 PM
My new article out in American Anthropologist: "The ethnographic crime scene: Tracing the violence within market relations on the Thai-Myanmar border" doi.org/10.1111/aman...
Reposted by Stephen Campbell
Congratulations to Don Kalb (prof of Anthropology @unibergen.bsky.social) on the AAA's Anthropology of Work #BookOfTheYear for "Insidious Capital". Watch the launch at #BergenExchanges. Sobering, insightful - and unusually funny - thanks to a great panel!
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Book Launch: Insidious Capital
YouTube video by CMI-UiB LawTransform
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December 2, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Congratulations to Don Kalb (prof of Anthropology @unibergen.bsky.social) on the AAA's Anthropology of Work #BookOfTheYear for "Insidious Capital". Watch the launch at #BergenExchanges. Sobering, insightful - and unusually funny - thanks to a great panel!
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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Consider supporting workers on strike now at the Charis Sculpture factory in Myanmar.
Donate to Support Myanmar Workers on Strike, organized by Simon Rosenblum-Larson
On July 5, 2024, workers who are members of the Federation of General Workers… Simon Rosenblum-Larson needs your support for Support Myanmar Workers on Strike
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November 22, 2024 at 4:30 AM
Consider supporting workers on strike now at the Charis Sculpture factory in Myanmar.
From Malcolm X and Aimé Césaire to the Palestinian solidarity movement: My review of the new Gerald Horne reader.
Anti-racism must be anti-imperialist: why the left should read Gerald Horne
Speaking to an audience in Harlem in December 1964 after returning from his second trip to Africa, Malcolm X drew connections between the struggle against white supremacy in the United States and the ...
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November 15, 2024 at 12:51 AM
From Malcolm X and Aimé Césaire to the Palestinian solidarity movement: My review of the new Gerald Horne reader.