Book Reviews
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Review of Ideal Man
24 May 2013 9:12 AM | No Comments
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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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Archive for May, 2007
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Electoral sabotage bears rich fruit
Posted on 31 May 2007 | 39 CommentsThe decision by the opposition Democrat-except-when-we-cannot-win-an-election-and-then-a-coup-is-ok Party to boycott last year’s general election (because they knew they would lose) has... -
Sulak Sivaraksa in London, again
Posted on 30 May 2007 | 1 CommentNew Mandala readers in the United Kingdom will be interested to know that Sulak Sivaraksa will be speaking on “Spiritual... -
Report on SOAS event in London: “Thailand after the Coup”
Posted on 30 May 2007 | 13 CommentsWednesday, 23 May 2007 The 70 people who trekked out to the second site of the School of Oriental and... -
High praise
Posted on 30 May 2007 | 3 CommentsFrom Thailand Jumped the Shark: “Andrew Walker … a loquacious incomprensible pompous bloviator on subjects of no merit or social... -
The Nation on the rural constitution
Posted on 30 May 2007 | 7 CommentsHere is the report from The Nation on the seminar I delivered in Bangkok earlier this month. Rural voters not politically naive, says... -
Sufficiency workshop in Canberra
Posted on 29 May 2007 | 1 CommentThe National Thai Studies Centre is hosting a workshop this Friday on the “sufficiency economy concept.” Thailand: The Sufficiency Economy... -
Back from the fringe
Posted on 29 May 2007 | No CommentsApologies for my longer than expected New Mandala absence. I have been travelling in Yunnan, with most of my time... -
Provocative stuff from around the blogs
Posted on 28 May 2007 | 2 CommentsFrom different corners of the Thailand-focussed blog scene, Siam Sentinel and Thailand Jumped the Shark have both made recent posts that... -
Burma history: “Tragedy in the Golden Land”
Posted on 27 May 2007 | 1 CommentThe Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s excellent Rear Vision radio program – a weekly look at the histories behind major events and... -
“In Thailand we respect the king. Nobody dares to make a copy.”
Posted on 25 May 2007 | 7 CommentsFollowing the lively discussion generated by the recent New Mandala post on “Thai cinematic war with Burma”, many readers will...