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 | 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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Archive for May, 2010
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Strategic alignment: Thailand and the US
Posted on 31 May 2010 | 21 CommentsThe United States under many administrations has accepted the effective military/monarchy partnership as essential to the maintenance of the Thai... -
Chindwin, the magazine
Posted on 31 May 2010 | 1 CommentChindwin: a river that originates in Kachin State. Also a Burmese-language monthly magazine that the National Library of Australia recently... -
Sondhi – return parliamentary powers to the king
Posted on 30 May 2010 | 41 CommentsIt’s a while since New Mandala featured the thoughts of Sondhi Limthongkul. A few days ago he made a long... -
Thailand’s full-blown crisis of legitimacy
Posted on 29 May 2010 | 31 CommentsThings can go terribly wrong even in places with many inherent advantages – think of Burma, Argentina and Sri Lanka.... -
Thailand in crisis – ANU video series
Posted on 28 May 2010 | 48 CommentsHere is the first of a series of videos on Thailand in Crisis that we are producing in conjunction with... -
Water shortages in Burma
Posted on 28 May 2010 | 5 CommentsThomas Kean from The Myanmar Times has produced a fascinating article on water shortages and water management in Burma. I... -
Thailand’s terrorists
Posted on 28 May 2010 | 48 CommentsCriteria for terrorism charges are loose, restrictions on civil liberties tight. The violent immediacy of the Red Shirt protests has... -
Sutachai on hunger strike
Posted on 28 May 2010 | 20 CommentsFurther to the statement of concern by scholars at Chulalongkorn University, here is an email update about the plight of... -
Stevenson on King Bhumibol
Posted on 27 May 2010 | 35 Comments[King Bhumibol's] mother commanded such enormous respect among Thais that, if she were still alive, I believe her only surviving... -
Thai institutions: Archives
Posted on 27 May 2010 | 6 CommentsArchives/จดหมายเหตุ [Author's note: In late 2009, when I agreed to write a post on “Archives” for the New Mandala series...