Kiik Laur, 2025, “Rural resistance under a golden dictatorship, part 1: the Myitsone villages”, International Journal of Asian Studies, (online first), 1-20. (A&HCI)

Kiik Laur, 2025, “Rural resistance under a golden dictatorship, part 2: the suspended villages”, International Journal of Asian Studies, (online first), 1-22. (A&HCI)

Kiik Laur, 2024, “Cry with the Promised Land: singing for nationalist and religious environmentalism amid Burma’s war”, Ethnomusicology Forum, 33(2-3), 159-181. (A&HCI)

Kiik Laur, 2024, “Encounter: A Basic Concept for Anthropology”, Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 48(3), 97-102. (Scopus)

Kiik Laur, 2024, “Sacred politics of Chinese infrastructure: Christians, Buddha’s tooth, dragons, and conflict at Myitsone, Kachin, Burma”, Modern Asian Studies, 58(5), 1379-1406. (SSCI) (IF: 0.8; SSCI ranking: 61.6%)

Fair Hannah, Schreer Viola, Keil Paul, Kiik Laur, Rust Niki, 2022, “Dodo dilemmas: Conflicting ethical loyalties in conservation social science research”, Area, 55(2), 245-253. (SSCI) (IF: 2.1; SSCI ranking: 52.9%)

Pienkowski Thomas, Kiik Laur, Catalano Allison, Hazenbosch Mirjam, Izquierdo‐Tort Santiago, Khanyari Munib, Kutty Roshni, Martins Claudia, Nash Fleur, Saif Omar, Sandbrook Chris, 2022, “Recognizing reflexivity among conservation practitioners”, Conservation Biology, 37(2), e14022. (SCIE) (IF: 5.5; SCI ranking: 4.8%,10.7%,21.7%)

Kiik Laur, 2020, “Confluences amid Conflict: How Resisting China’s Myitsone Dam Project Linked Kachin and Bamar Nationalisms in War-Torn Burma”, Journal of Burma Studies, 24(2), 229-273. (Scopus)

Kiik Laur, 2020, “Inter-National Conspiracy? Speculating on the Myitsone Dam Controversy in China, Burma, Kachin, and a Displaced Village”, Geopolitics, 28(1), 72-98. (SSCI) (IF: 3.4; SSCI ranking: 21.8%,18.7%)

Kiik Laur, 2018, “Wild-ing the Ethnography of Conservation: Writing Nature’s Value and Agency In”, Anthropological Forum, 28(3), 217-235. (SSCI) (IF: 0.7; SSCI ranking: 70.7%)

Foran Tira, Kiik Laur, Hatt Sullivan, Fullbrook David, Dawkins Alice, Walker Simon, Chen Yun, 2017, “Large hydropower and legitimacy: A policy regime analysis, applied to Myanmar”, Energy Policy, 110, 619-630. (SCIE, SSCI) (IF: 9.2; SCI ranking: 17.5%,8.8%)

Kiik Laur, 2016, “Nationalism and anti-ethno-politics: why ‘Chinese Development’ failed at Myanmar’s Myitsone Dam”, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 57(3), 374-402. (SSCI) (IF: 2.2; SSCI ranking: 10.5%,48.3%)

Kiik Laur, 2016, “Conspiracy, God’s Plan, and National Emergency: Kachin Popular Analyses of the Ceasefire Era and its Resource Grabs”, War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar: The Kachin Ceasefire, 1994-2011.

Dean Karin, Laur Kiik, Lazzarino Runa, Guillou Anne Yvonne, Kulla Kalli, Arnez Monika, 2016, State Rhetoric versus People Crossing Borders in Southeast Asia. An Ongoing Negotiation. SEATIDE Online Paper 4..

Kiik Laur, 2014, “Book Review: Biosocial Becomings: Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology, by Tim Ingold and Gisli Pálsson (eds.)”, Anthropological Notebooks, 20(2), 173-175.