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Thailand’s Political Peasants: Power in the Modern Rural Economy

factual supports for these points. There is also a sense that the theoretical backdrop is almost more important to the author. This is especially true in the initial chapter on the fall of Suharto, where his exploration of the concept of messianic fervour seems lacking in substantial evidence to back it up. Kirksey suggests that those demonstrating against Suharto were driven by “secular messianic hopes”. This is an interesting theory, but Kirksey presents little evidence to back it up. It does not account for the long, slow rumble of discontent in Indonesia against the second president long before his downfall, or the likely involvement of military elements in the riots that led to the final denouement. Parts of the initial section could have been omitted to provide space for development of the more original and valuable information in the middle chapters. The book ends with a call to arms, a messianic fervour almost (his own words) against the capitalist system of exploitation of regions such as Papua by those in the developed world. The dangers of this approach seem present in his work. While the argument about the capitalist system has its merits, it is hard not to see this as more a tacked-on political argument than one coming organically from the earlier part of the book. However, his passion for the topic shows through in the personal world of the independence struggle portrayed.