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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After regime change
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Revisiting “democracy in plural societies” in transforming Malaysia
Posted on 17 May 2013 | No CommentsRegime change in itself will not automatically bring the powerful state down, writes Kikue Hamayotsu -
Pakatan Rakyat – a new kind of opposition in Malaysia
Posted on 31 August 2012 | No CommentsMalaysia’s next General Election—when it occurs—will be the most intensely-fought in the Federation’s history. There has been much speculation if... -
Political change in Malaysia and uncertainty in the future: sobering lessons from Indonesia
Posted on 9 August 2012 | 4 CommentsThere has, of late, been much speculation about the date and timing of the upcoming 13th General Elections of Malaysia.... -
Malaysia after regime change – Ooi Kee Beng
Posted on 30 June 2012 | 9 CommentsPast cures as present addictions A dialogue about something as serious as regime change in Malaysia must examine at least... -
Malaysia after regime change – Lee Hwok-Aun
Posted on 11 June 2012 | No CommentsAffirmative action: A bipartisan consensus that does not make sense If there is any bipartisan consensus in Malaysian politics, it... -
Malaysia after regime change – Ong Kian Ming
Posted on 1 June 2012 | 8 CommentsMain challenges for a PR Government What happens in the unlikely event that Pakatan Rakyat (PR) wins and maintains control... -
Malaysia after regime change – Greg Felker
Posted on 26 May 2012 | No CommentsCredibility and the search for a new developmental model In comparative politics the word “regime” refers to the formal and... -
Malaysia after regime change – Hal Hill
Posted on 13 May 2012 | 2 CommentsMalaysia: wanted – a genuine new economic model There is much to admire about Malaysia, in addition to it being... -
Malaysia after regime change – Tricia Yeoh
Posted on 24 March 2012 | 3 CommentsCrony capitalism in Malaysia: Breaking the business and political nexus The intricate nexus between the worlds of business and politics... -
Malaysia after regime change – Meredith Weiss
Posted on 17 March 2012 | 4 CommentsThe long and curious trajectory of “regime change” in Malaysia Given the well-known parameters of political competition in Malaysia, talk...