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 November, 2007
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Uncle, is that a gun in your pocket or did you just sell your vote?
Posted on 30 November 2007 | 3 CommentsA breaking story from the Bangkok Post: Candidates in next month’s fiercely contested Thai election have been offering Viagra in... -
One-2-grow
Posted on 30 November 2007 | 15 CommentsCritics of Thaksin’s “populist” policies often condemned the wasteful expenditure of village credit on consumer goods such as mobile phones.... -
Slow rescue from Laos’ lethal harvest
Posted on 30 November 2007 | 1 CommentTwo new films about Laos are notable for their radically different depictions of the results of the American intervention there.... -
Thailand’s “deadly denial”
Posted on 29 November 2007 | 10 CommentsHere is an important press release from Human Rights Watch: (Bangkok, November 29, 2007) – Thailand’s failure to address the... -
Interview with Professor Michael Aung-Thwin
Posted on 28 November 2007 | 42 CommentsThis post is part of New Mandala’s series of interviews with academics, activists and writers who contribute to major debates in mainland... -
Chachoengsao: Celebrating the King
Posted on 28 November 2007 | 3 CommentsObservers in Chachoengsao could be forgiven if they did not think that we are actually in the middle of... -
Taking an oath for a clean and fair election
Posted on 27 November 2007 | 9 CommentsOn Thursday, November 15, 2007, the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) led representatives of political parties to the Temple of... -
Thinking like a Thai Army general
Posted on 26 November 2007 | 20 CommentsThe Army’s analysis of the current situation goes like this. There is a “war for the people” in process, meaning... -
How to get rid of a government
Posted on 25 November 2007 | 12 Comments -
Will the Community Forest Act be good for farmers?
Posted on 23 November 2007 | 4 CommentsThe Bangkok Post reports that the community forest bill, a long-time rallying cause for activist academics and NGOs in Thailand, has...