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 | 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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Yingluck
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Double, double toil and trouble…
Posted on 10 April 2012 | 41 Comments…Fire burn and cauldron bubble… The drama over Shakepeare Must Die will, naturally enough, inspire many to track down a... -
Thailand’s next round?
Posted on 28 February 2012 | 9 CommentsFor months now, Thailand’s uneasy political truce has been unravelling in slow motion. The robustness of debate, not to... -
Rice production after the flood
Posted on 6 February 2012 | 2 CommentsThe 2011 flood that had ravaged one-quarter of Thailand has not, surprisingly, adversely affected the overall rice production. That should... -
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... -
Pheua Thai but for lese majeste
Posted on 25 January 2012 | 45 CommentsThe Pheua Thai government has now firmly clarified its position on moves to reform Thailand’s lese majeste law. The Bangkok... -
Big sister in town
Posted on 16 November 2011 | 21 CommentsToday, the seasoned American politician will be joined by Thailand’s first female Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at a joint press... -
EM balls – a flood hoax?
Posted on 4 November 2011 | 20 CommentsAn interesting development in Thailand’s ongoing crisis is the distribution of “EM balls” to deal with stagnant and noxious flood... -
The toll of flooding on lives and politics
Posted on 1 November 2011 | 81 CommentsAmidst severe criticism and real damage in one-fifth of the country, the Yingluck government was beginning to streamline the current... -
What’s going on with the Thai Printing Act?
Posted on 30 October 2011 | 31 CommentsCan any readers cast light Sutichai Yoon’s concerns about erosion of free speech in Thailand? Almost surreptitiously, the Cabinet on... -
Floods and political ideology
Posted on 27 October 2011 | 9 CommentsMichael Montesano has written a very interesting article for the Jarkarta Globe about some of the ideological dimensions of Thailand’s...