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 | 2 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 | 3 CommentsInga 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 October, 2007
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“Unprincipled wants and needs of the people”
Posted on 31 October 2007 | 3 CommentsMost of the populist policies being pushed by parties competing in the December 23 general election belong to the bad... -
Pull the other one…
Posted on 31 October 2007 | No CommentsThe most recent edition of The Myanmar Times has an article about the resumption of Internet service inside Burma. It reports:... -
“Grewuplate foolish” without iodised salt
Posted on 30 October 2007 | No CommentsThis week is “thyroid awareness week” in Australia. A short interview on ABC radio yesterday discussed the increase in thyroid disease in... -
Colonel Jeru takes command
Posted on 30 October 2007 | 2 CommentsReaders may be excited to hear that Colonel Jeru, who has become a regular discussant here on New Mandala, has... -
An interview with Bhikkhuni Dhammananda
Posted on 29 October 2007 | No CommentsThe Little Bang is carrying an interesting two-part interview with Bhikkhuni Dhammananda. According to the introduction to the interview: Venerable Dhammananda taught... -
The dead hand of electoral bureaucracy
Posted on 29 October 2007 | 5 CommentsThe Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) is championing a series of extraordinary laws that seek to extend bureaucratic control over the... -
Comments unblocked
Posted on 27 October 2007 | No CommentsOver the past few days New Mandala has been hit by a deluge of spam. We had to temporarily block... -
A non-violent war on drugs
Posted on 26 October 2007 | 4 CommentsThose who actually take the time to study rural political behaviour in depth usually come up with very different conclusions... -
General Than Shwe’s statement on the UN
Posted on 25 October 2007 | 2 Comments…In this age of globalization, countries have become more interconnected and thus collective efforts for security and development under the... -
Vote early but not often!
Posted on 25 October 2007 | No CommentsThe Association for Asian Studies is currently holding its annual election. There is an election for the vice-president and also for...