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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Online Issues
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Tradition dictates…
Posted on 21 December 2012 | 3 Comments...that we celebrate the festive season in New Mandala's habitual style. In recognition of some of the year's major players, we have opted to introduce some new figures into our winter wonderland. -
Press freedom and platform convergence in Malaysia
Posted on 21 October 2012 | No CommentsOver at East Asia Forum, Ross Tapsell analyses what media convergence could mean for press freedom in Malaysia, especially if... -
New Mandala site upgrade
Posted on 23 August 2012 | 63 CommentsOver the next day New Mandala is being upgraded and some features will likely be unavailable for short periods of... -
Political prisoners, Amnesty and Google
Posted on 7 August 2012 | 2 CommentsYesterday when I was googling around for one of my favourite web-sites I noticed that Amnesty International in Australia had a... -
New Mandala turns six
Posted on 16 June 2012 | 3 CommentsNew Mandala was launched on 16 June 2006. So much has changed since then. If you are intrigued by New... -
Voices of moderation on Burmese Facebook
Posted on 15 June 2012 | 18 CommentsMuch has been said of the abundance of hate posts on Burmese language Facebook nodes. While this is a disturbing... -
Comments, comments, comments
Posted on 7 June 2012 | 28 CommentsNew Mandala gets plenty of comments. As our long-term readers know some people out there consider them a mixed blessing. From... -
Chiranuch Premchaiporn verdict (not) today
Posted on 30 April 2012 | 28 CommentsMany New Mandala readers will already know that later today we anticipate a verdict in the lese majeste trial of... -
Twitter in Thailand’s “word cage”
Posted on 16 March 2012 | 4 CommentsHere at New Mandala we have not yet sought to tweet up a storm. These days every New Mandala post... -
Layers of King Bhumibol’s life
Posted on 24 February 2012 | 2 CommentsOccasionally I illustrate a New Mandala post with a snapshot of images taken from Google Image search. The image for this...