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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History
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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. -
Najib the Delayer
Posted on 1 November 2012 | 1 CommentIs Najib Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia, pursuing the military strategy of Roman dictator Fabius Maximus, who was known as Fabius the Delayer? -
Counterpunch: Pol Pot wasn’t so bad
Posted on 29 September 2012 | 72 CommentsThe notorious Holocaust denier, Israel Shamir, has been making the rounds among Cambodia watchers this week. This time, he's praising Pol Pot! -
Ho Chi Minh’s surprise letter
Posted on 17 August 2012 | 4 CommentsHo Chi Minh at Versailles, 1919 July’s Journal of Vietnamese Studies carries a remarkable document: a previously unpublished letter written... -
Cambodia and South Africa
Posted on 30 June 2012 | 3 CommentsSource: Wikimedia Commons I recently returned from a week-long course on truth, memory and conflict at the International Conflict Research... -
How the Khmer Rouge dehumanised their “enemies”
Posted on 11 June 2012 | 16 CommentsPhoto courtesy of Akshay Mahajan (Creative Commons licence) After a long period of relative silence, the most tragic period in... -
Kuomintang in northern Thailand
Posted on 4 June 2012 | 10 CommentsOn his Old World Wandering website, Iain Manley has presented a terrific interview with a Kuomintang soldier, Zhan Dening, who settled... -
Natural disaster and the city – workshop
Posted on 12 April 2012 | 1 CommentNatural Disaster and the City Historical Perspectives from Southeast Asia and Japan, 1945-2011 16-17 January 2013 Centre for Southeast Asian... -
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... -
Revolutionary remains
Posted on 6 April 2012 | 10 CommentsOn Saturday, 24 March 2012, a military convoy brought the remains of fourteen prominent and less known Lao revolutionary leaders...