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 February, 2009
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Red Shirt protest at Government House
Posted on 28 February 2009 | 21 CommentsThis past week the Red Shirts protested for 3 days at Government House. There is not much I can write... -
Tej Bunnag speaking in London
Posted on 28 February 2009 | 5 CommentsNew Mandala readers in the UK will be keen to know that on Thursday 5 March 2009 former Thai Foreign... -
Thailand: Love it or leave it
Posted on 27 February 2009 | 21 CommentsHarry Nicolaides and his case have now been discussed in all sorts of places, including on this web-board hosted by... -
Spying on the Red Shirts
Posted on 27 February 2009 | 5 CommentsFor something a bit different, The Nation‘s Bangkokian has an entertaining little report on two army conscripts who apparently attempted... -
Report on “Lèse Majesté in Thailand: The Enemy of Democracy”
Posted on 27 February 2009 | 115 CommentsAfter SOAS, Giles’s second stop of his tour of major UK campuses to deliver his critique of contemporary Thai politics... -
Arnold Zable on Nicolaides and writers’ freedom
Posted on 27 February 2009 | No CommentsOver at Eureka Street there is a thought-provoking essay by Arnold Zable, the president of the Melbourne Centre of International... -
Video of Giles Ji Ungpakorn at SOAS
Posted on 26 February 2009 | 6 CommentsThe video that was mentioned in this post is now available at YouTube (part 1, part 2, part 3 and... -
Nicolaides, NM and LM
Posted on 26 February 2009 | 1 CommentHarry Nicolaides is home and free. It is, I suppose, as good a time as any to start taking stock... -
Responsible and harmonious Sipsongpanna
Posted on 26 February 2009 | No CommentsThanks to Leedom Lefferts for this image from a traffic circle just to the south of Jinghong. -
Karen Colonel reportedly out on bail
Posted on 26 February 2009 | 8 CommentsThe many readers who follow these types of conversations will be interested to know that The Irrawaddy has a short...