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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Elections
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Who can meet the expectations of the majority?
Posted on 15 April 2013 | No CommentsMany Malaysians are willing to move beyond the politics of fear into a brave new world, but will they be looked after? -
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? -
UMNO’s last mohican?
Posted on 14 September 2012 | 2 CommentsIf your in Canberra, don’t miss this opportunity to meet a remarkable Malaysian politician. Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah is an unusual... -
International community take note – regime change looms in Malaysia
Posted on 30 August 2012 | 7 CommentsA very young demographic profile, a high urbanisation rate, ever increasing access to the Internet and extreme longevity in power,... -
Megatrends at Malaysia’s 13th general elections
Posted on 19 June 2012 | 4 CommentsNew Mandala readers interested in Malaysia, may want to read my take on the coming general election in Malaysia. I... -
Altantuya and Malaysia’s 13th general elections
Posted on 9 June 2012 | 10 CommentsAs Malaysia’s thirteenth general elections draw near, the ghost of Altantuya appears to haunt the Prime Minister. On 19 April,... -
Will UMNO give up power?
Posted on 8 December 2011 | 35 CommentsI asked the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia if he on behalf of the Malaysian government will (minute 45): (i)... -
UMNO trembles at her sight!
Posted on 15 November 2011 | No CommentsBurma has Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Philippines has Corazon Aquino. Malaysia now has Ambiga Sreenevasan. -
BERSIH 2.0 sweeps Australia
Posted on 25 October 2011 | 2 CommentsThe face of Bersih 2.0, Ambiga Sreenevasan, begins touring Australia’s east coast today, hoping to fuel a new and profound... -
BERSIH 2.0 Chair @ ANU
Posted on 24 October 2011 | No Comments