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 | 3 CommentsInga 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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Cambodia
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What’s the truth behind Somaly Mam?
Posted on 25 May 2012 | 8 CommentsPhoto courtesy of Roland Berger Stiftung Browsing the chatter around the Internet, I recently came across this potentially damaging Cambodia Daily... -
Chut Wutty: Tragic casualty of Cambodia’s dirty war to save forests
Posted on 30 April 2012 | 11 CommentsIt was a stiflingly hot Phnom Penh evening when I last saw Chut Wutty, one week before his murder. Sitting... -
Singapore’s insatiable hunger for sand
Posted on 25 April 2012 | 24 CommentsSingapore has a lot of money but not much coastline or territory. Cambodia has lots of coastline and territory but... -
Songkran in Cambodia: Red Shirts meet Thaksin
Posted on 23 April 2012 | 150 CommentsOn 14 April 2012, for the first time in the conflict of the past 6 years, Thaksin addressed a mass... -
When Thaksin comes home
Posted on 16 April 2012 | 78 Comments“And now the end is here. And so I face the final curtain. My friend, I’ll say it clear.... -
Thaksin wants to get off exile island
Posted on 13 April 2012 | 7 CommentsIt gets hot in Thailand at this time of year. In recent years this has tended to be the season when the... -
Cambodia’s “Little Bollywood”
Posted on 9 April 2012 | No CommentsThe Khmer Rouge took over Phnom Penh on 17 April 1975 beginning their reign of terror that left 1.8 million... -
Cambodian American exiles won’t meet Obama
Posted on 3 April 2012 | 4 CommentsIn February, the White House selected a video titled “Asian Americana” to be 1 of 11 finalists for their contest... -
Democracy in Southeast Asia: A new generation’s take
Posted on 26 March 2012 | 9 CommentsLarry Diamond, founding co-editor of Journal of Democracy and a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, argues in a recent article... -
Recluses and reforms in Southeast Asia
Posted on 15 March 2012 | 5 CommentsWhen referring to mainland Southeast Asian states such as Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, journalists and scholars have often made...