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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India
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Where China meets India
Posted on 6 January 2012 | 2 CommentsLate last year I wrote an essay reflecting on Thant Myint-U’s new book, Where China meets India: Burma and the New... -
Forced relocation and impoverishment of ethnic communities: Myanmar’s Tamanthi Dam
Posted on 20 December 2011 | 2 CommentsThe controversial Tamanthi Dam project on the upper Chindwin River in western Sagaing Division of Myanmar is resulting in forced... -
The Kachin war in regional perspective
Posted on 20 July 2011 | 3 CommentsOver at the Lowy Institute’s Interpreter they have published my short analysis of the new war in northern Burma. It... -
Mountain god, sacred text
Posted on 10 November 2010 | No CommentsThis is a a bit outside our usual area of interest, but I am sure this film (made by ANU... -
Extinction of a tribe
Posted on 8 February 2010 | No CommentsAsia Sentinel has a report on the death of the last surviving member of a tribe that inhabited the Andaman... -
Asian Borderlands: Enclosure, Interaction and Transformation
Posted on 5 October 2009 | No CommentsNew Mandala readers will be interested in the following announcement for the 2nd Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network. The first... -
The spice of South Asia Masala
Posted on 4 September 2009 | No CommentsMost people who arrive at New Mandala are looking for something meaty about the countries of mainland Southeast Asia. A... -
A new Masala!
Posted on 24 July 2009 | No CommentsThis afternoon I will be attending the launch of South Asia Masala the latest addition to the blog stable here... -
Problems in Australia’s overseas student program
Posted on 13 July 2009 | 17 CommentsIn recent months there has been much news about a spate of brutal attacks on Indian overseas students in Australia.... -
Selth on Burmese nationalism
Posted on 10 June 2009 | 1 CommentOver at the Lowy Institute’s Interpreter, long-time Burma watcher Andrew Selth provides a fascinating reflection on Burmese nationalism and its...