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 | 3 CommentsInga 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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Abhisit
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Reconciliation games
Posted on 5 June 2012 | 76 CommentsA confusing multitude of different protest groups are out on the streets again, suddenly changing the high stakes game over... -
Why the compromise game?
Posted on 22 May 2012 | 78 CommentsInspired by Nicholas Farrelly’s recent post, “Analysing Thailand’s détente”, in this essay I will try to make some sense of... -
Questions for Abhisit Vejjajiva
Posted on 14 April 2012 | 58 CommentsOn 24 April 2012 former Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva will address the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand. All of the... -
A Red Shirt Songkran party and amnesty thoughts
Posted on 10 April 2012 | 11 CommentsThe 104.10 ‘Pathum Thani People’s Radio station’ in Lam Luk Ka near Klong 3, Pathum Thani province, held a small... -
Don’t stand out in Thailand
Posted on 5 April 2012 | 17 CommentsI am researching how the Thai monarch is semiotically positioned to represent the hegemonic Thai discourse of ‘unity’, through the... -
Left out of reconciliation?
Posted on 1 February 2012 | 11 CommentsChawee Klinkulai, sits on the floor of the house that her son, Theerawat, built before his imprisonment. Overwhelmed by her... -
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... -
Just, fair, accountable!
Posted on 22 August 2011 | 11 CommentsOn 18 August 2011, the People’s Information Center (PIC ศูนย์ข้อมูลประชาชนผู้ได้รับผลกระทบจากการสลายการชุมนุม เมษา-พฤษภา 2553) issued a petition to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.... -
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Intelligence operations against the Red Shirts
Posted on 29 June 2011 | 2 Comments[This is a follow-on from an earlier New Mandala post about military operations in Bangkok in April-May 2010.] Another article... -
Election countdown: polls and policies
Posted on 28 June 2011 | 5 CommentsThe roughly 10 million undecided voters will have to make their choice on Sunday. The countdown has begun. Given that...