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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Kachin State
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The Kachin and war
Posted on 22 January 2013 | 28 CommentsNicholas Farrelly still has some hope that the decision-makers realise the futility of these battles and can find a compromise that will work. -
A deadline looms in Kachin war
Posted on 6 June 2012 | 4 CommentsIt is almost a year since the war between the Kachin Independence Army and the Myanmar government re-ignited. In that... -
Kachin media war continues
Posted on 3 May 2012 | 22 CommentsThe media war in Kachin State continues, with the The New Light of Myanmar ramping up the regularity of its... -
Shining light on Kachin war coverage
Posted on 26 April 2012 | 8 CommentsLast week I mentioned the recent burst of official media attention to the Kachin State. Everything then went quiet forBurma’s Thingyan... -
Kachin State: Don’t mention the war
Posted on 16 April 2012 | 29 CommentsI still keep one eye on what gets reported in Burma’s official media. It can be a useful barometer of what’s... -
Internationalising the Kachin war
Posted on 12 April 2012 | 18 CommentsI think we are seeing the early stages of a much more consistent effort, in parts of the international media at... -
3,000 dead Burmese soldiers?
Posted on 11 April 2012 | 11 CommentsLong-time readers know that I have an interest in understanding how many soldiers die in Burma’s civil wars. Last... -
Global Mail on Kachin war
Posted on 13 February 2012 | 2 CommentsThe Global Mail is the new kid on the Australian media block. Funded by Internet entrepeneur Graeme Wood it aims to... -
Kachin State Day 2012
Posted on 12 January 2012 | 1 CommentEarlier in the week I offered some brief reflections on the occasion of Kachin State Day, 10 January 2012. Kachin... -
10 January: War and Manau
Posted on 10 January 2012 | 2 CommentsAs many New Mandala readers know I have a longstanding scholarly interest in the Manau festivals organised by various Jinghpaw, Jingpo...