Book Reviews
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Review of Misalliance
17 May 2013 1:00 PM | No 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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Review of Economic Disparity and of Economic Transition
17 May 2012 8:05 AM | 2 Comments
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Archive
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UK Television: Burma’s Secret War
Posted on 2 October 2006 | 5 CommentsThis documentary - which reportedly follows the “Free Burma Rangers” around the country’s periphery - will be screened on Channel 4 in the United... -
Ahh, “full of loopholes”
Posted on 1 October 2006 | 4 CommentsThe Nation reports (my emphasis added): The royal command, which was announced on TV pool at 9:29 am, states that... -
Rohingyas on Nauru, part III
Posted on 1 October 2006 | 1 CommentA spate of stories from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation late last week drew on comments from an Australian refugee lawyer and an... -
Slowly but surely…
Posted on 1 October 2006 | 1 Comment…news of anti-coup activities is starting to seep out of Thailand. Every couple of days, we are seeing a jumbled bunch... -
These feet are made for gawking
Posted on 30 September 2006 | 1 CommentThis image of the Buddha is the result of a recent Japanese donation to a temple just north of central... -
Surin for Sec-Gen?
Posted on 28 September 2006 | 4 CommentsThere is news today that the former Thai foreign minister and long-time Nakorn Sri Thammarat Democrat party heavy, Surin Pitsuwan,... -
Possible Thai PM: “the army should never be involved in politics”
Posted on 28 September 2006 | No CommentsGiven current speculation about possible contenders for the next Thai Prime Ministership, a brief profile of ex-commander-in-chief and now Privy Council... -
I’m leaving on a jet plane…
Posted on 28 September 2006 | 1 CommentI am leaving today for a trip to England. If I run into Thaksin in McDonalds or Tesco I will... -
Tesco, the coup and the retail revolution
Posted on 28 September 2006 | No CommentsThe BBC, the Telegraph and the Bangkok Post, among others, are carrying “crack-down” stories that highlight potential restrictions on Tesco and other foreign retailers... -
Head to the hills
Posted on 27 September 2006 | No CommentsFor those with an interest in landuse change in the uplands of southeast Asia (rather than political change in the...