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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Than Shwe
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The elephant and Myanmar politics
Posted on 29 April 2012 | 21 CommentsWhen news broke about the National League for Democracy (NLD) postponing its parliamentary debut on account of a dispute... -
Burma’s incentive for reform?
Posted on 6 February 2012 | 13 CommentsBurma’s “reform process” – to the extent it is one – defies easy labels. It certainly isn’t a People Power... -
Benedict Rogers deported from Burma
Posted on 5 April 2011 | 5 CommentsThe authorities later found out as he was the one who wrote about Senior General Than Shwe and they deported... -
Than Shwe playing Parliament
Posted on 1 April 2011 | 1 CommentIn a way, [Senior General Than Shwe is] looking like he sort of had some foresight, but things can backfire,... -
From the archive: Tatmadawmen and the media
Posted on 25 February 2011 | No CommentsAcross mainland Southeast Asia there is a seemingly permanent tussle between calls for freedom of expression and the prevailing authoritarian... -
The dark art of Than Shwe’s cross-dressing
Posted on 18 February 2011 | 1 CommentAccording to The Irrawaddy, Burma’s Senior General Than Shwe and his close colleagues have taken to wearing women’s clothing to... -
Mainland Southeast Asia and Wikileaks
Posted on 8 December 2010 | 4 CommentsLast week Tyrell Haberkorn provided New Mandala readers with a handy overview of the potential implications of Wikileaks for understanding... -
Zarni takes aim at Burma experts
Posted on 29 November 2010 | 13 CommentsOver at The Irrawaddy London School of Economics Research Fellow Maung Zarni has terse words for “the legions of Burma... -
Burma commentary, with more to come
Posted on 16 November 2010 | 24 CommentsIn today’s The Age I have a brief analysis which discusses Aung San Suu Kyi and the prospects for political... -
Burma votes 2010 – Episode 1
Posted on 3 November 2010 | 3 CommentsEarlier in the year New Mandala collaborated with the ANU Media Office and the ANU College of Asia and the...