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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Archive
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What about some political education for the elite?
Posted on 11 October 2006 | 30 CommentsSondhi Limthongkul and Kraisak Choonhavan are good communicators. At the SOAS seminar last Saturday they presented a clear vision of... -
Andrew Walker seminar in Oxford
Posted on 10 October 2006 | 2 CommentsNew Mandala readers in Oxford will be keen to know that Andrew is presenting a paper at a seminar tomorrow. ... -
New Rambo and Free Burma
Posted on 10 October 2006 | 8 CommentsIn one of the most unexpected pieces of news to come out this week, the Bangkok Post, and others, are... -
Sondhi at the SOAS event…
Posted on 10 October 2006 | 8 Comments…said: “The King holds a very, very special place…only this King can get the people the things they deserve…The Thai... -
Naypyidaw reports from The Irrawaddy team
Posted on 10 October 2006 | 6 CommentsThe new edition of The Irrawaddy delivers Clive Parker’s very informative and critical account from the dust of Burma’s new capital,... -
Comments on New Mandala
Posted on 9 October 2006 | No CommentsNew Mandala is an academic blog. We welcome robust debate but cannot tolerate offensive language or crude insults. Criticism and controversial... -
SOAS discussion on the Thai coup
Posted on 9 October 2006 | 18 CommentsOn the afternoon of Saturday, 8 October 2006, New Mandala attended the School of Oriental and African Studies seminar titled... -
New Thai cabinet
Posted on 9 October 2006 | No CommentsBangkok Pundit has a useful rundown of the new Thai cabinet which highlights a number of particularly interesting inclusions. His... -
Surakiart bows out of race for UN gig
Posted on 7 October 2006 | 1 CommentOver the past day or so, many news sources have been reporting that the Thai and ASEAN candidate for United... -
Consitution for a coup
Posted on 6 October 2006 | No CommentsHere is an unofficial translation (by Pasuk and Baker) of Thailand’s new coup constitution.