Book Reviews
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Review of Misalliance
17 May 2013 1:00 PM | 1 CommentKeith Weller Taylor argues that this new book is thoughtful, lucid, original, analytical, and readable
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Review of Thailand’s Hidden Workforce
05 April 2013 9:15 AM | 1 CommentInga Gruß reviews a book about the work conditions of Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand at this time of immense change.
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Review of Gender, Emotions and Labour Markets
21 February 2013 9:10 AM | 1 CommentSri Ranjani Mei Hua reviews a book dealing with experiences of women in Southeast Asia.
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Review of Authority of Influence
06 January 2013 5:31 AM | 3 CommentsScholarly treatments of gender in Myanmar, past or present, remain scarce. Jessica Harriden’s book thus fills a gap in our understanding of an important and controversial topic.
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Review of The King in Exile
04 December 2012 8:35 AM | 4 CommentsDonald M. Seekins argues that this book is the story of a dynasty that belongs truly to Burma’s past.
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Review of Buddhist Fury
13 November 2012 7:57 AM | 21 CommentsThis book explores the relationship between religion and violence in far southern Thailand, where Buddhist monks are a marginalized local minority.
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Review of Revisiting Rural Places
30 October 2012 7:54 AM | 2 CommentsRevisiting Rural Places should become an essential reference text for researchers who work on social, cultural, political and economic change in Asia.
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Review of The Institutional Imperative
16 October 2012 7:00 AM | 9 CommentsDe-agrarianisation often isn’t very pretty, but economic disparity may well be the price to be paid for pursuing it as slowly as Thailand has over the past 50 years.
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Review of Imagining Gay Paradise
09 October 2012 6:55 AM | 2 CommentsThe creation of make-shift, idiosyncratic queer paradises provides shelter, community, and belonging for many who have refused to fit into standard narratives of Southeast Asia.
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Review of The Fate of Rural Hell
12 September 2012 7:56 AM | 6 CommentsThe models of eroticism and faith in the Hell Garden have been left behind by the robust urban bourgeois consumerist culture increasingly prominent across contemporary Thai society.
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Review of Revolution Interrupted
24 July 2012 11:46 AM | 6 CommentsQuestioning received notions of revolution, this book offers a passionate and rigorous reconsideration of the period in Thailand between October 1973 and October 1976.
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Review of Land and Loyalty
17 July 2012 9:18 AM | 9 Comments
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Review of The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk
11 July 2012 3:44 PM | 9 Comments
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Review of Saying the Unsayable
19 June 2012 6:27 AM | 19 Comments
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Review of Economic Disparity and of Economic Transition
17 May 2012 8:05 AM | 2 Comments
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Archive for November, 2006
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My secret war
Posted on 30 November 2006 | 3 CommentsI must admit that I had mixed feelings when I see pictures of bomb shells in Laos. A feeling of... -
Golden Boat update 3: the rise of a new port
Posted on 30 November 2006 | 2 CommentsIn my last post I discussed the decline of Chiang Khong’s Wat Luang port and the Wat Luang Boat Operators’... -
A new socialist woman!
Posted on 30 November 2006 | No CommentsThis is not an image from Phuket’s famous Simon Caberet. In fact, it is from an exciting Lao story uncovered,... -
Same old story…Asian Studies on the decline
Posted on 29 November 2006 | 7 CommentsEchoing many previous Australian reports on the issue (one of which won a recent journalism prize), today’s Australian carries an article headlined... -
“Precious Prince of Hearts” takes Rangsit degree
Posted on 29 November 2006 | 2 CommentsBhutan’s Crown Prince Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck - the subject of a newly composed song titled “Precious Prince of Hearts” - has... -
Prawase Wasi’s sufficiency democracy
Posted on 29 November 2006 | 19 CommentsThanks, again, to Patiwat, for drawing our attention to a key political statement, this time from “respected intellectual” Prawase Wasi.... -
Golden Boat update 2: the “legend” of Wat Luang port
Posted on 29 November 2006 | 1 CommentIn The Legend of the Golden Boat, Andrew Walker spends a whole chapter talking about the significance of a small... -
Reminder: Thongchai in London
Posted on 28 November 2006 | 2 CommentsTonight, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Thongchai Winichakul will be lecturing in London on the topic, “Thailand’s Coup: A Step Forward... -
The fear of the rural
Posted on 28 November 2006 | 15 CommentsIt is often hard for urban Thai perceptions of the rural to strike an appropriate middle ground. On the one... -
Borders of rubber
Posted on 28 November 2006 | 13 CommentsOver the last three years, northern Laos has been seized by a rubber fever unknown in the agricultural history of...