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, 2008
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Pali
Posted on 30 September 2008 | 14 CommentsIn 1983 Charles Keyes wrote “the evidence from monastery libraries in Laos and Thailand reveals that what constitutes the Theravādin... -
Smallholder rubber profits
Posted on 30 September 2008 | 3 CommentsOne of the most fascinating transformations that has occurred recently in the uplands of southeast Asia is the rapid adoption... -
Donald M. Stadtner on Mon and other paradigms
Posted on 29 September 2008 | No CommentsLong-time readers will recall that when I interviewed historian Michael Aung-Thwin back in November 2007, some of his statements caused... -
New Mandala’s Four Letter Words
Posted on 29 September 2008 | 2 CommentsSince its inception in 2006 New Mandala has continuously welcomed guest contributions. To date we have hosted over a hundred of these.... -
Strong words from the ICG
Posted on 29 September 2008 | 1 CommentThe International Crisis Group has issued a strongly-worded policy brief on the situation in Thailand. Here is their six point... -
James Bond on the Mekong
Posted on 27 September 2008 | 3 CommentsThe Bangkok Post reports on an address given by James Bond (Chief Operating Officer of the World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment... -
Information about village evictions in northern Thailand
Posted on 23 September 2008 | 6 CommentsRecently our article “Northern Thailand’s Specter of Eviction” was published by Critical Asian Studies (40:3, 373-398). In that piece we discussed... -
East Asia’s Samak disease!
Posted on 22 September 2008 | 1 CommentAt first I could not believe my ears. But after checking the ABC’s website I had to accept that it was true.... -
Education and dissent
Posted on 22 September 2008 | 1 CommentReaders looking to continue chewing over the issue of Burmese politics and foreign “intervention” may find some satisfaction in this article... -
Weird times
Posted on 20 September 2008 | 2 Comments“These are weird times in Asian politics.” - Marcus Gee writing in The Globe and Mail.