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 | 3 CommentsInga 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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Some perspectives on the coup from Australia
Posted on 21 September 2006 | 1 CommentI have asked a number of Thailand observers in Australia to provide quick reactions to the coup. I will add... -
New Mandala in the press
Posted on 21 September 2006 | 11 CommentsFrom today’s Canberra Times (page 17). And here is the Canberra Times’ web version. -
Farmers and labourers – stay out of politics!
Posted on 20 September 2006 | No CommentsFrom the New York Times: The group of military officers that overthrew Thailand’s government sought to consolidate its control today,... -
The rules of the game
Posted on 20 September 2006 | 1 CommentOver the next few days, the global media frenzy surrounding the Thai coup will, no doubt, reach fever pitch. Rumours... -
A triumph for the so-called pro-democracy movement
Posted on 20 September 2006 | 6 CommentsSo, things are moving according to a familiar old script. There is much that Thaksin has done wrong to bring... -
19/9, a Tuesday
Posted on 20 September 2006 | 4 CommentsThis coup could probably never have been called on a Monday. Monday is – as we have remarked many times... -
Note to Reporters Regarding Thai Pronunciation
Posted on 20 September 2006 | 2 CommentsMaybe I should just get used to it, but news coverage that can’t get names right doesn’t carry much weight. Some... -
Coup in Thailand
Posted on 20 September 2006 | 3 CommentsThere are rumours, and news coverage, that somebody has taken control in Thailand via a provisional authority, backed by at least some military units and... -
Rohingyas on Nauru, part II
Posted on 20 September 2006 | 3 CommentsWhen I first posted on the Rohingyas on Nauru I said I would keep New Mandala updated as the story unfolds. The punchline... -
Can farmers be trusted with debt? Part 2
Posted on 19 September 2006 | 7 CommentsAs I have indicated in a number of previous posts, there is a lot of hysteria about the one million...