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 March, 2009
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The fate of Suwicha Thakhor
Posted on 31 March 2009 | 24 Comments[Apologies that there have been so few posts over the past week. Both Nicholas and I have been travelling. The... -
901, royal politics and Thaksin Shinawatra
Posted on 24 March 2009 | 95 CommentsAlthough [Thaksin Shinawatra] has repeatedly claimed his reverence for the King, he has yet to explain why he often invokes His Majesty... -
UDD – where to?
Posted on 20 March 2009 | 49 CommentsI have been sent the following questions and comments by David, a regular New Mandala reader. He raises interesting issues about... -
No dessert for you
Posted on 20 March 2009 | 2 CommentsIt’s Friday and I’m sure everyone could do with a bit of a chuckle. This little article should give us... -
Debate on lese majeste
Posted on 20 March 2009 | 5 CommentsAcademics from four Thai universities are holding a discussion on the lese majeste law on 21-22 March at Thammasart University. Details... -
New political force
Posted on 19 March 2009 | 4 CommentsAnnouncing … the blue-shirts. -
The Ivory Tower, democracy and all that jazz
Posted on 19 March 2009 | 27 CommentsIn today’s The Nation, Pornpimol Kanchanalak has an interesting set of reflections on student politics, Thai politics and academic politics.... -
Last stand for the Karen?
Posted on 18 March 2009 | 4 CommentsOver the past seven months DKBA and SPDC patrols have repeatedly breached Thai sovereignty in their war against the Karen,... -
Full text of Abhisit speech in Oxford
Posted on 18 March 2009 | 18 CommentsNew Mandala readers who want to read the full text of Abhisit’s speech in Oxford will find it available from... -
On Tibet coverage and politics
Posted on 18 March 2009 | No CommentsIt is a bit outside the realm usually covered by New Mandala but I thought this recent blog post by...