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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Coup
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Launch of Ji Ungpakorn’s new book
Posted on 25 June 2010 | 9 CommentsBook Launch: Thailand’s Crisis and the Fight for Democracy Friday 2 July 2010, 4-6pm H103, Connaught House London School of... -
More Secrets, Trickery, and Camouflage
Posted on 7 May 2010 | 1 CommentLap Luang Phrang phak 3 : the last war, kongthap tang si suk sailuat Cho.Po.Ro (2010) by Watsana Nanuam (ISBN:... -
Are you kidding me?
Posted on 21 February 2010 | 56 CommentsBelow is the text of my remarks at the FCCT on 18 February 2010, reconstructed from my notes and my... -
Concern and anxiety in Thailand
Posted on 19 February 2010 | 1 CommentTalking with people in Thailand who have connections with some of the players in politics, there’s certainly an undercurrent of... -
Coup talk
Posted on 2 February 2010 | 1 CommentAs part of its global reporting brief, Reuters produces regular risk assessments. They are written with an investor slant and,... -
Abhisit’s fading blur of legitimacy
Posted on 2 February 2010 | 7 CommentsAbhisit’s decision to back away from constitutional reform will help erode the blur of legitimacy that his government has enjoyed.... -
A writer’s view of recent history
Posted on 14 December 2009 | 11 CommentsThaksin phae mai pen kha mai tai (Taksin: neither defeat nor death) (2009) by Nongnut Singhadecha (ISBN: 9789740204282). The book... -
Jakrapob on the state within the state
Posted on 25 September 2009 | 73 Comments[A New Mandala reader has provided the following translation of “State within the state” by Jakrapob Penkair, Thai Red News Weekly... -
Thailand’s military: perpetually political, forever factionalized, again ascendant
Posted on 24 September 2009 | 17 Comments[Dr. Paul Chambers is currently the Senior Research Fellow at the Politics Institute, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany. His research interests... -
Three years on …
Posted on 19 September 2009 | 7 CommentsTaken earlier this month in Chiang Mai.