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 May, 2012
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Lady Gaga in Bangkok
Posted on 27 May 2012 | 9 CommentsBangkok went ga-ga this weekend after 50,000 screaming fans filled Rajamangala Stadium in Lady Gaga’s first concert in Thailand. This... -
Human rights and lese majeste
Posted on 26 May 2012 | 113 CommentsTheir number is unknown yet is growing all the time. Most are thrown into cells which can hold up to... -
Malaysia after regime change – Greg Felker
Posted on 26 May 2012 | No CommentsCredibility and the search for a new developmental model In comparative politics the word “regime” refers to the formal and... -
Bersih 3.0 and resisting power
Posted on 25 May 2012 | No CommentsHow is Power resisted? What is the relation between the Law and Transgression? To what extent is rebellion against authority... -
Counting on the National League for Democracy
Posted on 25 May 2012 | 11 CommentsNow that Myanmar’s most popular political party, the National League for Democracy, has finally taken up its 43 seats in... -
What’s the truth behind Somaly Mam?
Posted on 25 May 2012 | 8 CommentsPhoto courtesy of Roland Berger Stiftung Browsing the chatter around the Internet, I recently came across this potentially damaging Cambodia Daily... -
Government of Malaysia vs people of Malaysia
Posted on 24 May 2012 | 3 CommentsThe Government of Malaysia has filed a lawsuit against the Bersih 2.0 steering committee for damages amounting to RM122,000 that... -
Lese majeste response from UK government
Posted on 23 May 2012 | 11 CommentsLast week New Mandala hosted a discussion of questions raised in the United Kingdom parliament about the death of... -
Why the compromise game?
Posted on 22 May 2012 | 78 CommentsInspired by Nicholas Farrelly’s recent post, “Analysing Thailand’s détente”, in this essay I will try to make some sense of... -
Talk on royal cremation ceremony
Posted on 22 May 2012 | 9 CommentsAn upcoming talk at the Siam Society will be of interest to many New Mandala readers. Thanks to a very long-time...