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 January, 2008
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Armed groups at the Myitkyina Manau
Posted on 31 January 2008 | 8 Comments- Burmese Army heavy machine gun. Part of the security detail that accompanied the Burmese Army’s Northern Commander to the Manau. ... -
![At the recent International Conference on Thai Studies, my colleage Nicholas Tapp presented a paper [tapp.pdf] on the work of anthropologist Andrew Turton...](http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Power, violence, politics and truth")
Power, violence, politics and truth
Posted on 31 January 2008 | 29 CommentsAt the recent International Conference on Thai Studies, my colleage Nicholas Tapp presented a paper [tapp.pdf] on the work of anthropologist Andrew Turton... -
Water torture
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“How much power does the Thai king really have?”
Posted on 30 January 2008 | 6 CommentsHot on the tail of the lese majeste investigation of his A Coup for the Rich, Ji Ungpakorn is putting his hand... -
Lèse majesté lives on
Posted on 28 January 2008 | 23 CommentsI have received the following message from Ji Ungpakorn, author of A Coup for the Rich. Thai Special Branch Police... -
Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej
Posted on 28 January 2008 | 1 CommentAfter more than a year of military rule Thailand has a new, democratically-elected Prime Minister. Previous New Mandala coverage of... -
Royal misrepresentation of rural livelihoods
Posted on 28 January 2008 | 15 CommentsSince the International Conference on Thai Studies, I have received a number of requests for the paper I presented on sufficiency economy. The... -
The electorate and the “acute state of Thai politics”
Posted on 28 January 2008 | 67 CommentsMore than one month after the election Thailand is edging ever closer to the formation of a democratically elected government.... -
Borders, borders everywhere
Posted on 27 January 2008 | 1 CommentThis is a picture of a border checkpoint between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India. Indian security personnel are... -
Lasang Awng Wa Group at the Manau
Posted on 27 January 2008 | 7 CommentsThe Lasang Awng Wa Group is the newest and least well-known of the Kachin armed factions. It is also sometimes...