Book Reviews
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Review of Misalliance
17 May 2013 1:00 PM | No CommentsKeith 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 September, 2007
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The Nam Tha dam
Posted on 30 September 2007 | 16 CommentsA Chinese company is currently intending to build a hydroelectric dam on the Nam Tha river in northwestern Laos (other dams... -
Prayers for Burma
Posted on 30 September 2007 | 1 CommentFrom a New Mandala reader: This photo is a small part of a prayer vigil held tonight outside the... -
Japanese reaction to journalist’s death
Posted on 29 September 2007 | 6 CommentsJapan is an important investor in Burma (both in the form of private investment and development assistance) so Japanese reaction to... -
Unconfirmed report from Burma
Posted on 29 September 2007 | 14 CommentsI am not in the habit of spreading rumours but… There have been a number of unverifiable pieces of information swirling around... -
China-Burma relations report in Spanish
Posted on 28 September 2007 | No CommentsFor something a bit different, members of New Mandala‘s audience who read Spanish may find this very recent article from the newspaper... -
Roundtable discussion at the University of Michigan
Posted on 28 September 2007 | 1 CommentThis upcoming event at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) has been brought to my attention. If any New Mandala readers attend... -
Vang Pao aftermath on the upper Mekong
Posted on 28 September 2007 | 3 CommentsSoutheast Asian repression has many facets. Here is a brief account from an informed observer in northern Laos about the local... -
Canberra’s finest?
Posted on 28 September 2007 | 1 CommentIt’s not Rangoon but democracy loving Canberra. The Sydney Morning Herald (the source of this photo) reports: A protest... -
Paul Handley replies to comments
Posted on 28 September 2007 | 55 CommentsThis post is a follow-up to the New Mandala interview with Paul Handley posted on 19 September 2007. Thanks for all the... -
Thailand’s mad junta
Posted on 27 September 2007 | 24 CommentsSeveral New Mandala readers have brought our attention to this latest junta madness. Thai junta head General Sonthi made these...