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 May, 2009
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Review of Lieberman
Posted on 31 May 2009 | 1 CommentVictor Lieberman, Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830. Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland (Studies in Comparative... -
Replica heritage
Posted on 29 May 2009 | 5 CommentsIn early April there was a brief period of aggression after a Thai incursion onto Cambodian territory at the Preah Vihear... -
Burma watching and the internet
Posted on 28 May 2009 | 6 CommentsThe Irrawaddy published an article yesterday on a new website, entitled 64 for Aung San Suu Kyi, which was created... -
PAD tries a political party
Posted on 28 May 2009 | 25 CommentsOn 24 May 2009, I attended the first of two days of the “People’s Alliance for Democracy Assembly” at Rangsit... -
Update on Inya Lake’s aquatic intruder
Posted on 28 May 2009 | 3 CommentsThomas Bell from The Telegraph has an informative report updating us on what motivated John Yettaw to swim across Inya... -
PAD celebrates decision to found political party
Posted on 27 May 2009 | 13 CommentsOn 25 May 2009 the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) lavishly celebrated the decision to found their political party in... -
Book review series
Posted on 27 May 2009 | 3 CommentsToday New Mandala is launching a series of book reviews by Craig Reynolds. All of the details on the series... -
Review of Brummelhuis
Posted on 27 May 2009 | 1 CommentHan ten Brummelhuis, King of the Waters: Homan van der Heide and the Origin of Modern Irrigation in Siam, Leiden,... -
Building bridges to understanding Sagaing Division
Posted on 26 May 2009 | 1 CommentThe “hair bridges” story about women in Sagaing Division selling their hair to raise money to rebuild bridges reminded me... -
Andrew Selth on conspiracies and cock-ups
Posted on 26 May 2009 | 11 CommentsBurma analyst Andrew Selth has a very useful essay on Aung San Suu Kyi’s current predicament and the John Yettaw...