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 April, 2011
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Thai studies in Australia
Posted on 30 April 2011 | 9 CommentsHere is a copy of the Lowy Institute’s report on Thai studies in Australia. Very interesting reading. Some extracts (with... -
Review of War Comes to Long An
Posted on 30 April 2011 | 4 CommentsJeffrey Race, War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province. Updated and expanded edition, with new forewords... -
Why Malaysians leave Malaysia
Posted on 30 April 2011 | 3 Comments- Sourced from, ”Brain drain”, Malaysia Economic Monitor, World Bank, 28 April 2011 -
Commentary on National Assembly elections in Laos
Posted on 29 April 2011 | 1 CommentAn anonymous colleague has sent in the following insights in response to a journalist’s questions on tomorrow’s National Assembly questions... -
![[Source of Thai orginal: http://thaienews.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post_9511.html] Responding to questions raised to an international media audience of around 100 people on Tuesday...](http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/udd1.jpg "Red Shirt leaders at FCCT")
Red Shirt leaders at FCCT
Posted on 29 April 2011 | 12 Comments[Source of Thai orginal: http://thaienews.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post_9511.html] Responding to questions raised to an international media audience of around 100 people on Tuesday... -
New Mandala in the archives
Posted on 29 April 2011 | No CommentsOne of the many outstanding services that the National Library of Australia offers is an archive of websites called PANDORA:... -
Open letter: Amnesty International in Thailand
Posted on 29 April 2011 | 8 Comments[New Mandala just received this open letter marked for "immediate release". Previous discussion of this issue is available here.] Open... -
Selth on Burma nuclear ambitions
Posted on 29 April 2011 | 1 CommentTaken together, these three developments hold out the promise of more reliable data and greater clarity about the US Government’s... -
Madam Nhu: a feminist with extrajudicial leanings
Posted on 28 April 2011 | 4 CommentsEarlier this week, Tran Le Xuan died in Rome. Tran, who is more well-known as Madame Nhu, was the sister-in-law... -
Malaysia’s next Prime Minister?
Posted on 27 April 2011 | 2 CommentsIn February 2010, I suggested that Najib Razak’s position as Prime Minister of Malaysia is vulnerable. I also suggested that...