User:Mpelex/sandbox/Maurizio Peleggi

Maurizio Peleggi (b. 1966, Rome) is a cultural and art historian. He is a professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore and has held visiting positions in universities in Europe and the United States. Peleggi has written extensively on the visual and material culture of Thailand and on the theory and practice of heritage conservation in Southeast Asia. From 2010 to 2016 he was the editor of the Journal of Southeast East Asian Studies and seats in the editorial boards of the Journal of Tourism History and the Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies.

Select Bibliography
2017 Monastery, Monument, Museum: Sites and Artifacts of Thai Cultural Memory (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

2015 (ed.) A sarong for Clio: essays in the intellectual and cultural history of Thailand (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press).

2007 Thailand: The Worldly Kingdom (London: Reaktion Books).

2002 Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy’s Modern Image (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

2002 The Politics of Ruins and the Business of Nostalgia (Bangkok: White Lotus).

Reviews
The Politics of Ruins and the Business of Nostalgia: "an elegant analysis that uses conceptual lenses rarely brought to ber on the study of Thailand" (Crossroads); "a worthy addition to the growing literature on the politics of the pats in Thailand and the rest of Southeast Asia" (Journal of Southeast Asian Studies).

Lords of Things: "a clear, coincise, and delightfully written account [that] answers questions that have for too long remained unarticulated within Thai scholarship" (Asian Studies Review); "Writing an original history about Siam's modernisation under King Chulalongkorn is challenging given the density of scholarship on the subject, but M. Peleggi admirably succeeds in doing just that" (The Historian); "The book provides a well documented in-depth assessment of less well-known aspects of that [modernization] process" (Pacific Affairs); "a major contribution to the study of Thailand's history"(Journal of Southeast Asian Studies).

Thailand the Worldly Kingdom: "a boldly innovative introduction to the kingdom and its nation-building projects . . . an intrepid and original treatment of both history and Thailand" (Southeast Asia Research); "a trendy global history approach which resituates Thailand in the wider process of the emergence of the modern world" (Journal of the Siam Society); "scholarly without being cumbersome, entertaining without being frothy" (Australian Literary Review); "a wide-ranging attempt to track the aspirations of the Thai elite and the why those inspirations have shaped many aspects of the country" (Bangkok Post).