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 | 2 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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Thein Sein
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Obama in Cambodia and Myanmar
Posted on 21 November 2012 | 9 CommentsA former American diplomat in Cambodia and Myanmar reflects on the trickiness of Obama's visit. -
Intolerance, Islam and the Internet in Burma today
Posted on 10 June 2012 | 151 CommentsLast week Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr told Radio Australia that his government would monitor democracy and human rights in... -
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... -
Getting real about Myanmar’s development
Posted on 5 June 2012 | 9 CommentsIn December 2011, President Thein Sein urged his government to rebuild the beaten-up former capital of Yangon (Rangoon), a city... -
A Nobel Peace Prize for Thein Sein?
Posted on 14 May 2012 | 8 CommentsRecently, when asked, I have been making the point that: Myanmar deserves to be at peace with itself. President Thein is... -
Analysis of Myanmar’s NLD landslide
Posted on 1 May 2012 | 13 CommentsLANDSLIDE: There’s no other way to put it really when you look at the results. The National League for Democracy... -
When not to swear in public
Posted on 30 April 2012 | 8 CommentsAs New Mandala readers are probably well aware, the euphoria over Myanmar’s 1 April 2012 by-elections – in which the National... -
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... -
Seeking practical benefits from national reconciliation in Myanmar
Posted on 16 April 2012 | 11 CommentsThere can be no doubt that Myanmar is currently undergoing an important political transition. In most cases where such a... -
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...