Book Reviews
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Review of Ideal Man
24 May 2013 9:12 AM | No CommentsNew Mandala book review editor Michael Montesano reviews this new work on a key figure in Southeast Asian history.
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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 June, 2007
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Democratic double standards?
Posted on 30 June 2007 | 27 CommentsHere are some thoughts I received yesterday from a journalist and human rights advocate from the Philippines. He is reflecting... -
Paddy in the uplands
Posted on 28 June 2007 | No CommentsA few days ago I reported on research (by Runako Samata) suggesting that the upland rice production of many Karen farmers in... -
“Rural no more”
Posted on 28 June 2007 | 10 CommentsEarly last month I wrote about a Thai fairy tale in which a wise king encourages rural people to... -
Raging argument about war in Burma
Posted on 27 June 2007 | 25 CommentsAn abrasive commentary about conditions in Burma recently came to my attention. Written by Melody Kemp, who describes herself as “a... -
If you go down to the woods today …
Posted on 26 June 2007 | 2 CommentsThere are a lot of debates surrounding forest resources in Laos. An interesting trend is how these issues are coming out... -
Leach revisited
Posted on 25 June 2007 | 3 CommentsNew Mandala readers will be keen to know that a new book on highland Southeast Asia has been recently published. ... -
Upland insufficiency
Posted on 23 June 2007 | 7 CommentsDiscussions of rural life in Thailand often proceed in the absence of good quality local information. This is unfortunate, as... -
Does Thailand need a senate?
Posted on 22 June 2007 | 12 CommentsFurther to my previous comments about the “unrepresentative swill” of Senates, I was interested to read the following snippet from... -
Nuclear sufficiency
Posted on 21 June 2007 | 18 CommentsLast week The Nation reported: The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) is ready to invest at least US$6... -
Mapping the post-coup academic landscape
Posted on 21 June 2007 | 44 CommentsOne of the legacies of the Thaksin era is what some regard as an unprecedented level of division among academic...