Book Reviews
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Review of Misalliance
17 May 2013 1:00 PM | No 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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Review of Economic Disparity and of Economic Transition
17 May 2012 8:05 AM | 2 Comments
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The pathologies of Malay nationalism
Posted on 2 December 2012 | No CommentsRacism and bigotry are crutches or shields for the journey towards European type progress for the Malays, and ultimately Malay dignity. -
Hobbism and Malaysia
Posted on 23 October 2012 | 1 CommentIts not poor politics alone that is the reason for authoritarianism in Malaysia but Hobbism. -
Southeast Asia’s illiberal regimes
Posted on 25 June 2012 | 9 CommentsThere is an interesting article on democracy in Southeast Asia over at the East Asia Forum. Chayut Setboonsarng from the... -
Malaysia’s political reform – academic freedom
Posted on 21 March 2012 | 4 CommentsTowards the end of 2011, several incidents unfolded bringing the issue of academic freedom to the fore of Malaysia’s public... -
Malaysia’s madness
Posted on 1 January 2012 | 4 CommentsThose whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad Gopal Raj Kumar‘s allegation that Bersih (The Coalition for... -
Malaysia – Assembling the Peaceful Assembly Act
Posted on 6 December 2011 | 4 CommentsThe process of enacting the Peaceful Assembly Bill 2011 and the public debate and disappointment this has engendered illustrate some... -
Evidence of racism in Malaysia?
Posted on 3 December 2011 | 24 CommentsIt has been reported that “The Human Rights Foundation Malaysia” (HRFM) has testified before U.S. House Committee on Foreign... -
Malaysia – Defending the Constitution
Posted on 25 November 2011 | 4 CommentsMalaysia is on the brink of fundamental change. It should have been apparent to all following the unprecedented election results... -
UMNO and the Commies
Posted on 17 August 2011 | 1 CommentMalaysia established diplomatic ties with Communist China – the sponsors of the Malayan communist Party – in 1974. The Malayan... -
Internal insecurity – UMNO’s strategy?
Posted on 7 August 2011 | 2 CommentsIs there a pattern in the conflicts that are occurring in Malaysia? It appears that geographically, it occurs mainly in...