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 | 3 CommentsInga 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 March, 2012
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Lynas Corporation for dummies (and Australians)
Posted on 30 March 2012 | 20 CommentsI do not need to write a ‘for dummies’ guide for Malaysians. They have made up their minds about Lynas... -
Review of Chinese Schools in Peninsular Malaysia
Posted on 28 March 2012 | No CommentsLee Ting Hui, Chinese Schools in Peninsular Malaysia: The Struggle for Survival Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011. Pp.... -
Aung San Suu Kyi’s election
Posted on 28 March 2012 | 10 CommentsNobody will want to look like a fool on 1 April in Burma this year. So will you take a... -
Is Malaysia on the cusp of regime change?
Posted on 27 March 2012 | 5 CommentsFormer Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohammad recently warned that the US, together with unidentified Jewish groups, is plotting to... -
Democracy in Southeast Asia: A new generation’s take
Posted on 26 March 2012 | 9 CommentsLarry Diamond, founding co-editor of Journal of Democracy and a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, argues in a recent article... -
Malaysia after regime change – Tricia Yeoh
Posted on 24 March 2012 | 3 CommentsCrony capitalism in Malaysia: Breaking the business and political nexus The intricate nexus between the worlds of business and politics... -
Red versus yellow in Japanese
Posted on 22 March 2012 | No CommentsThis translation of Nick Nostitz’s work is an exciting development for Japanese observers of Thailand. Details are here. -
Malaysia’s political reform – academic freedom
Posted on 21 March 2012 | 4 CommentsTowards the end of 2011, several incidents unfolded bringing the issue of academic freedom to the fore of Malaysia’s public... -
Student Scholarships for ANU Asia Pacific Week 2012
Posted on 20 March 2012 | No CommentsThe Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra is offering a number of scholarships for Honours, Masters and Doctoral students to... -
ANU Asia Pacific Week 2012
Posted on 17 March 2012 | No CommentsThe Australian National University’s annual Asia Pacific Week conference is on again in 2012. Asia Pacific Week brings together leading...