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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Surayud regime
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Forest encroacher moves on
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Report on SOAS event, part I
Posted on 1 February 2010 | 22 CommentsA panel discussion on “Thai Political Situation: Wherefrom and Whereto?” Presented by the Royal Thai Embassy and the SOAS Thai... -
Red Shirts at Surayud’s holiday paradise
Posted on 13 January 2010 | 11 CommentsThe Red Shirts have lately turned quite inventive, and their latest stunt at Khao Yai Thieng forest reserve was maybe... -
Four Prime Ministers in one year
Posted on 17 March 2009 | 15 Comments[This is the second in our Thai language series of posts by Dekchai Kimhan. The first in the series is... -
Whither Thai democracy?
Posted on 16 October 2008 | 17 CommentsIn a world of uncertainty nothing is more uncertain than Thai politics especially over the past three years. Nothing has... -
Too long on the privy
Posted on 20 September 2008 | 6 CommentsFrom The Nation: Privy councillor Surayud Chulanont yesterday conceded that the 2006 coup had not been able to put politics... -
Nation, religion and monarchy in the fight against Thaksin
Posted on 13 August 2008 | 15 CommentsThe motivation behind the 2006 coup d’etat can be explained from various perspectives. On the one hand it was simply... -
Revisiting the Prem compound clashes
Posted on 12 August 2008 | 8 CommentsSlightly more than a year ago, on 22 July 2007, Bangkok saw a violent street protest when the United Front of Democracy Against... -
Have you had enough of sufficiency?
Posted on 19 July 2008 | 10 CommentsBack when the generals were still running Thailand, here at New Mandala we paid almost daily attention to what then passed for national economic... -
Thai Crisis and “Why we should worry”
Posted on 23 June 2008 | 1 CommentNew Mandala readers who are new (or, perhaps, not so new) to the various online discussions of Thailand’s political future...