Book Reviews
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Review of Misalliance
17 May 2013 1:00 PM | 1 CommentKeith 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 February, 2010
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Making sense of the verdict
Posted on 27 February 2010 | 75 CommentsHere is a summary of the Supreme Court verdict that has been placed on Wikipedia’s entry for Thaksin: The court... -
Academic commentary before the Thaksin verdict
Posted on 26 February 2010 | No CommentsAt moments of particular tension in Thai politics New Mandala often consolidates the perspectives of academic commentators on the issues... -
Review of Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region
Posted on 26 February 2010 | 2 CommentsFrançois Molle, Tira Foran and Mira Käkönen, eds., Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region: Hydropower, Livelihoods, and Governance. London and... -
Thitinan on the looming verdict
Posted on 25 February 2010 | 15 CommentsThailand is dreading the Supreme Court’s verdict on former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s frozen $2.3 billion in assets, scheduled for... -
Najib’s defence against UMNO – centralising power
Posted on 25 February 2010 | 2 CommentsSeveral observers of Malaysian politics (including this author) have identified that the fight for UMNO (United Malay National Organisation) leadership... -
Damned Chinese: mighty Mekong a memory
Posted on 24 February 2010 | 19 CommentsThe Bangkok Post ran this story on 22 February: Ever since the completion of a few dams across the Mekong... -
Stanley A. Weiss on Burma policy
Posted on 24 February 2010 | 4 CommentsNo nation in Asia — from South Korea to Taiwan to Indonesia — has made an easy transition from dictatorship... -
The KIA digging in
Posted on 24 February 2010 | 6 CommentsFor some time now, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), the last remaining “ceasefire” army in the Kachin State, has been... -
Against the security of the kingdom?
Posted on 24 February 2010 | 3 CommentsAbsolutely Bangkok, a website that I would hardly associate with subversive content, was recently blocked by LoxInfo. There is a... -
Extinguishing the southern fire
Posted on 23 February 2010 | 1 CommentEliminating ongoing grievances, expanding space for Malay cultural identity, improving quality of education and increasing employment, increasing local ownership and...