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 | 1 CommentKeith 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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Burma
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What caused the Mae Surin fire?
Posted on 23 April 2013 | 6 CommentsOne month after 38 people were killed in a fire at Mae Surin refugee camp in Thailand's Mae Hong Son province, disturbing theories about the cause of the blaze are emerging. -
Thai spirits not welcome in Myanmar
Posted on 19 April 2013 | 12 CommentsA report from Rangoon that Thai spirits are encountering resistance in their efforts to extend their power into Myanmar. -
Colonialism and ethnic conflict in Burma
Posted on 16 April 2013 | 17 CommentsSai Latt argues that wherever colonial attitudes and actions are found, they deserve to be fundamentally challenged -
Podcasts from the 2013 Myanmar Update
Posted on 13 April 2013 | No CommentsAudio recordings are now available from the Myanmar Update Conference held at the ANU in March 2013 -
Flags: Old and new
Posted on 11 April 2013 | No CommentsNicholas Farrelly writes that national flags are often considered sacred and thus eternal. But they can change. -
Cross-border Shan: Naw Kham and Twet Nga Lu
Posted on 7 April 2013 | 3 CommentsSince modern borders were first established in the Mekong region, opportunists like Naw Kham have used them to pursue their own economic and political agendas. -
On Myanmar’s plural society
Posted on 2 April 2013 | 12 CommentsIn the wake of recent religious violence, Patrick Jory asks whether the problem in Burma is that people "mix but do not combine" -
Everyday ethnic tensions in Myanmar
Posted on 27 March 2013 | 21 CommentsViolence in Myanmar connects to a widespread lack of understanding and trust between Buddhist and Muslim communities. -
Tweeting from Myanmar Update 2013
Posted on 15 March 2013 | No CommentsNew Mandala co-founder and Myanmar Update co-convenor Nicholas Farrelly provides a quick overview of how to follow proceedings. -
Myanmar Update 2013, updated
Posted on 13 March 2013 | No CommentsThe 2013 Myanmar/Burma Update Conference is just around the corner. This post has all the key details.