Book Reviews
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Review of Misalliance
17 May 2013 1:00 PM | 1 CommentKeith 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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Thailand
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Rebellions and borders: call for papers
Posted on 19 April 2013 | No CommentsAn invitation to participate in a panel at the 2014 International Conference on Thai Studies exploring the role of rebellions in shaping the modern borders of Thailand. -
Don’t forget home
Posted on 16 April 2013 | 8 CommentsThe city of Boston is literally on the other side of the globe yet many that contributed to the inundation of my Facebook wall acted as if it were their home town that was attacked by yet-to-be-named terrorists. -
Interview with Joe Gordon: Lèse majesté and democracy
Posted on 15 April 2013 | 46 CommentsKyoto University's Pavin Chachavalpongpun interviews Joe Gordon, an American who was imprisoned for lèse majesté -
Thailand’s royal histories
Posted on 14 April 2013 | 4 CommentsAndrew Walker writes about the contested history of the last king of Phrae, and what this might mean for royal power in contemporary Thailand. -
New work on Southeast Asian monarchies
Posted on 12 April 2013 | 2 CommentsThe current issue of Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia deals with the sensitive, yet significant, topic of monarchies in the region -
Why Thailand needs its kings
Posted on 9 April 2013 | 36 CommentsCod Satrusayang is right. There is a natural fit between Thai culture and royalty. Thai culture needs its king. So why only one? -
Why Thailand needs its king
Posted on 8 April 2013 | 140 CommentsBangkok-based writer Cod Satrusayang makes an argument for retaining Southeast Asia's most famous monarchy. -
Cross-border Shan: Naw Kham and Twet Nga Lu
Posted on 7 April 2013 | 3 CommentsSince modern borders were first established in the Mekong region, opportunists like Naw Kham have used them to pursue their own economic and political agendas. -
Review of Thailand’s Hidden Workforce
Posted on 5 April 2013 | 1 CommentInga Gruß reviews a book about the work conditions of Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand at this time of immense change. -
The KL process
Posted on 1 April 2013 | 4 CommentsJames Bean argues that the Thai government is making the right moves in pursuing a constructive dialogue on peace in the southern provinces.