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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Shan State
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Coverage of earthquake in Shan State
Posted on 14 April 2011 | 2 CommentsHere is some of the domestic news coverage of the March earthquake in Shan State, from Weekly Eleven, above, and... -
Shan National Day celebrated with pomp, circumstance and a healthy dose of Shan Rock and Roll
Posted on 17 February 2011 | 1 CommentLoi Tailaeng, at the Thai-Burma Border: The Shan State Army – South, one of the handful of remaining non-ceasefire groups... -
Brother against brother, friend against friend
Posted on 1 November 2010 | 2 CommentsFor some years now I have been a regular reader of Aung Naing Oo‘s reminiscences published by The Irrawaddy. He... -
The scourge of Burma, Part 2
Posted on 5 March 2010 | 5 CommentsThis post is a six part New Mandala series. Readers are warned that some of the content in this series... -
China and the Wa
Posted on 6 January 2010 | 44 CommentsTension seems to be building in Myanmar’s border areas, as the end-of-year deadline set by the Tatmadaw for ceasefire armies... -
Burmese army radios
Posted on 5 January 2010 | No CommentsNew Mandala readers who follow Burmese military matters will be intrigued by this article in today’s Sydney Morning Herald. It... -
Vietnam vets (PLA) to fight in Burma?
Posted on 16 December 2009 | 10 CommentsIn the cliche, ala Rambo, it is American Vietnam vets who end up fighting in Burma against the tatmadaw. Readers... -
Prospects for ceasefire “engagement”?
Posted on 24 November 2009 | 3 CommentsNew Mandala readers who are not familiar with the work of the Transnational Institute’s Tom Kramer will find his relatively... -
Mathieson on Burma’s borderlands
Posted on 8 October 2009 | No CommentsShould war resume in parts of Burma’s borderlands, the country will simply return to its pre-1989 situation, and the challenges... -
A Sino-Burmese border dance
Posted on 8 September 2009 | 19 CommentsAs China continues to have problems with its own internal ethnic tensions, some of those it faces in Burma are...