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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Militaries
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Coup talk in Thailand 2012
Posted on 14 June 2012 | 30 CommentsWassana Nanuam is a prolific writer on Thai military topics. A 2009 book review by Craig Reynolds provides good insights about... -
A Shinawatra remembered in Canberra
Posted on 28 May 2012 | No CommentsThere is a very interesting article here about Captain Surajit Shinawatra who, after graduating from officer cadet training in Australia,... -
Ending civil war in Burma
Posted on 15 May 2012 | 12 CommentsMin Aung, a former Burmese soldier and police officer, has penned a lengthy meditation on civil war. It is well... -
The end of Tatmadaw rhetoric?
Posted on 7 May 2012 | 6 CommentsWe all know about all the changes happening in Burma these days. But there’s one issue that I haven’t seen... -
Thaksin’s freedom: The price of royalist-military dominance?
Posted on 18 April 2012 | 4 CommentsNew Mandala regular Pavin Chachavalpongpun, recently appointed as Associate Professor at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, has penned a... -
10 April 2010
Posted on 10 April 2012 | 15 CommentsNew Mandala readers with an eye to history will remember the violent events of 10 April 2010 in central Bangkok.... -
Thailand’s next round?
Posted on 28 February 2012 | 9 CommentsFor months now, Thailand’s uneasy political truce has been unravelling in slow motion. The robustness of debate, not to... -
Bangkok May 2010
Posted on 19 January 2012 | 7 CommentsHot off the press, this new book on Thailand’s recent political upheavals will shed light on the events of May... -
Thailand’s political soldiers
Posted on 9 January 2012 | 18 CommentsOver at East Asia Forum, Desmond Ball and I have a short analysis of the relationship between military professionalisation... -
Prisoners in Burma’s Kachin war
Posted on 28 October 2011 | 6 CommentsToday there is news that yet another Kachin Independence Army (KIA) assault has inflicted significant losses on a Burmese army (tatmadaw)...