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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Indonesia
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Malaysia’s election: An Indonesian comparison
Posted on 6 May 2013 | 9 CommentsProfessor Edward Aspinall asks "how long will elections seem truly consequential for Malaysians if the national government can never be changed by them?" -
Emulating the state
Posted on 12 April 2013 | 3 CommentsExamining the allure of martial symbolism, anthropologist Nicholas Herriman argues for a more entangled view of the state in Southeast Asia. -
Forced disappearance in Southeast Asia
Posted on 6 March 2013 | 4 CommentsJoin members of the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific to mark the anniversary of Somchai Neelaphaijit’s disappearance through a discussion of forced disappearance in Southeast Asia. -
The big, bad Indonesian bogeyman
Posted on 7 January 2013 | 1 CommentWhat then explains this xenophobia? One short explanation is the fear of losing hegemony, be it politically or religiously. -
Naughty numbers: power in Southeast Asia
Posted on 9 October 2012 | No CommentsNumbers have played an important role in Southeast Asia. Numbers have political utility, especially when presented in manner that creates a dichotomous division. -
Review of Imagining Gay Paradise
Posted on 9 October 2012 | 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. -
Indonesia – Malaysia relations: satu rumpun, satu hati?
Posted on 27 August 2012 | 1 CommentIf you’re in Canberra, and you’re interested in what is causing the fuss (as in the constant bickering) in Indonesia-Malaysia... -
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... -
Can Burma learn from Indonesia?
Posted on 18 January 2012 | 7 CommentsIndonesia’s Foreign Minister, Dr. Marty Natelegawa, is the third prominent Australian National University alumnus to have had his photograph taken... -
Shock horror – Indonesians paid to cheer for Malaysia!
Posted on 17 November 2011 | 3 CommentsThousands of Indonesian students have been pulled from their school classes to do the unthinkable — cheer for bitter rivals...