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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ASEAN
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New work on Southeast Asian monarchies
Posted on 12 April 2013 | 2 CommentsThe current issue of Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia deals with the sensitive, yet significant, topic of monarchies in the region -
‘Face-saving’ solution to Sabah
Posted on 3 April 2013 | 3 CommentsHistory could have been different had the Moro recruits obeyed orders and pursued their goal of destabilising Sabah for eventual annexation by the Philippines. -
ASEAN non-interference and the Sabah conflict
Posted on 22 March 2013 | 3 CommentsASEAN’s ability to resolve disputes in the region has increasingly been questioned – ever more so, its claim to ‘centrality’. -
Sabah – the question that won’t go away
Posted on 13 March 2013 | 9 CommentsThe future security of Sabah depends on how the governments of Malaysia and the Philippines deal with the aftermath of the Sabah incursion. -
Cambodia, Thailand and the ASEAN Way
Posted on 10 November 2012 | No CommentsThe ASEAN way, which includes the ‘non-intervention’ principle and consensus-based decision-making, has weakened any possibility of intervention in the now-receding border conflict. -
Review of Revisiting Rural Places
Posted on 30 October 2012 | 2 CommentsRevisiting Rural Places should become an essential reference text for researchers who work on social, cultural, political and economic change in Asia. -
The challenge of innovation in ASEAN
Posted on 24 October 2012 | 13 CommentsWith the exception of Singapore, which can be considered a developed city-state, most members of ASEAN are still developing nations,... -
ASEAN’s missed opportunities
Posted on 2 October 2012 | 10 CommentsIt may be ASEAN's own inward focus and inbred parochialism that prevents it sitting at trade, political, and economic forums with influence and stature. This may also prevent ASEAN entering into an era of diverse economic prosperity -
Malaysia and Singapore Update 2012 videos
Posted on 17 September 2012 | 5 CommentsThe Malaysia and Singapore Update 2012 saw the gathering of a distinguished group of analysts to discuss the dynamic political... -
Malaysia and Singapore Update – its getting hot!
Posted on 6 September 2012 | 4 CommentsThe programme for the Malaysia and Singapore Update 2012 is out, and it promises to be hot. The discussion topics...