Book Reviews
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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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Review of Economic Disparity and of Economic Transition
17 May 2012 8:05 AM | 2 Comments
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Cambodia
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New work on Southeast Asian monarchies
Posted on 12 April 2013 | 2 CommentsThe current issue of Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia deals with the sensitive, yet significant, topic of monarchies in the region -
Sihanouk’s legacy
Posted on 26 February 2013 | 1 CommentNo-one in the modern history of Southeast Asia has had such a continuous and lasting effect on the politics of their country than the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. -
Southeast Asia noir
Posted on 15 February 2013 | 15 CommentsArtist Chris Coles explores the world of Southeast Asian noir. -
Sihanouk’s revenge
Posted on 3 February 2013 | 1 CommentPart 2 of an extended interview with Milton Osborne about the controversial politics of Norodom Sihanouk whose funeral ceremonies have commenced in Phnom Penh. -
Norodom Sihanouk’s wonderful, horrible life
Posted on 30 January 2013 | 1 CommentAn interview with Milton Osborne about the policies, charisma and brutality of Norodom Sihanouk -
Lunching with mass murderers
Posted on 4 December 2012 | 10 CommentsNate Thayer, the final journalist to interview Pol Pot before his death in 1998, offers a glimpse into his conversations with former Khmer Rouge leaders. -
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. -
Cambodia’s death squads
Posted on 13 November 2012 | 3 CommentsHuman Rights Watch released a sizzling report today that details the Hun Sen regime's three-decade history of extrajudicial killings. -
Cambodia, Thailand and the ASEAN Way
Posted on 10 November 2012 | No CommentsThe ASEAN way, which includes the ‘non-intervention’ principle and consensus-based decision-making, has weakened any possibility of intervention in the now-receding border conflict. -
A much misunderstood monarch
Posted on 21 October 2012 | 3 CommentsIt has become politically correct to write in such manner that everything the late King Norodom Sihanouk achieved for his people has to be belittled.