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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Coup talk in Thailand 2012
Posted on 14 June 2012 | 30 CommentsWassana Nanuam is a prolific writer on Thai military topics. A 2009 book review by Craig Reynolds provides good insights about... -
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... -
Thaksin, reform and political crisis
Posted on 5 June 2012 | 13 CommentsChanges and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. Noam Chomsky (2008), What... -
Human rights and lese majeste
Posted on 26 May 2012 | 113 CommentsTheir number is unknown yet is growing all the time. Most are thrown into cells which can hold up to... -
Songkran in Cambodia: Red Shirts meet Thaksin
Posted on 23 April 2012 | 150 CommentsOn 14 April 2012, for the first time in the conflict of the past 6 years, Thaksin addressed a mass... -
When Thaksin comes home
Posted on 16 April 2012 | 78 Comments“And now the end is here. And so I face the final curtain. My friend, I’ll say it clear.... -
10 April 2010
Posted on 10 April 2012 | 15 CommentsNew Mandala readers with an eye to history will remember the violent events of 10 April 2010 in central Bangkok.... -
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... -
Red versus yellow in Japanese
Posted on 22 March 2012 | No CommentsThis translation of Nick Nostitz’s work is an exciting development for Japanese observers of Thailand. Details are here. -
A week of colour
Posted on 13 March 2012 | 32 CommentsThis past week in Thailand saw both the Red Shirts and the Yellow Shirts mobilised. Perhaps it was déjà vu. The People’s...