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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Archive
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“Bad excuses for the coup”
Posted on 25 September 2006 | 1 CommentAnother statement about the coup, this time from Thongchai Winichakul. Thongchai – bad excuses for the coup -
“There was a democratic alternative to the coup”
Posted on 25 September 2006 | 1 CommentI have received, via forwarded email, the following statement by Giles Ji Ungpakorn who, at this stage, seems to be... -
www.coup.com.th
Posted on 24 September 2006 | 4 CommentsThe web site of The Council for the Democratic Reform under the Constitutional Monarchy (Thailand’s new government) is available here.... -
The coup and self-sufficiency
Posted on 24 September 2006 | 1 CommentThe Nation is quoting a former Bangkok senator, Sophon Suphapong, on the coup-makers – the Council for Democratic Reform under... -
Good one Giles!
Posted on 24 September 2006 | 3 CommentsWhatever you think about the politics or academic analysis of Giles Ungpakorn you have to admire his courage in fronting... -
Beyond the “rural betrayal”. Where to now for the left(ish) social movements?
Posted on 23 September 2006 | 3 CommentsOver the past few years I have been critical of the strategies pursued by NGOs and activist academics who seek... -
Academics for Human Rights
Posted on 23 September 2006 | No CommentsA message from a colleague in Thailand: Here is a statement regarding the infringement of rights and fundamental freedoms in... -
First protest against the coup
Posted on 23 September 2006 | 1 CommentSome reports on the first protest against the coup are available here, here and here. Photo from Yahoo Images -
“Thais are the best – they burn down their own home”
Posted on 22 September 2006 | No CommentsThai Rat on the coup of 19.9.49. -
The “De-Thaksinization” of Thailand
Posted on 22 September 2006 | 16 CommentsLast year I wrote a review of Duncan McCargo and Ukrist Pathmanand‘s excellent book The Thaksinization of Thailand. My analysis...