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Discourses, Agency and Identity in Malaysia

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1 IntroductionZawawi Ibrahim, Gareth Richards and Victor T. King
PART I IDENTITIES IN CONTESTATION: BORDERS, COMPLEXITY AND HYBRIDITIES
2 Culture and identity on the move: Malaysia in Southeast AsiaVictor T. King (Universiti Brunei Darussalam)
3 The travelling text: Print cultures and translation in Penang and beyond Gareth Richards (Independent Scholar, formerly Universiti Malaya)
4 In body and spirit: Redefining gender complementarity in Muslim Southeast AsiaWazir Jahan Begum Abdul Karim (Independent Scholar, formerly Universiti Sains Malaysia)
5 The quest for the good life at the edge of Malaysia: Our people, the life of government and the life of prayerValerie Mashman (Sarawak Museum Campus)
6 Positioning Bajau identities as Bumiputera: Challenges and potentials of leveraging environmental justice and espousal of Islam in Sabah, MalaysiaFadzilah Majid Cooke (Universiti Malaysia Terengganu) and Greg Acciaioli (University of Western Australia)
7 Sustaining local food cultures and identities in Malaysia with the disruptive power of tourism and social mediaSally Everett (Anglia Ruskin University)
8 Negotiating sinful self and desire: The diverse sexualities of non-heteronormative Malay-Muslim men in MalaysiaChua Hang Kuen (Universiti Sains Malaysia)
9 Ah Beng subculture in Malaysia and the anti-thesis of global habitusRachel Chan Suet Kay (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)
PART II IDENTITIES AND MOVEMENTS: AGENCY AND ALTERNATIVE DISCOURSES
10 Anti-Blackness in Malaysia: The Bandung spirit and African-Asian critique in Richard Wright's The Color CurtainMohan Ambikaipaker (Tulane University)
11 The emergence of new social movements in Malaysia: A case study of youth activism HarisZuan (UniversitiKebangsaan Malaysia)
12 Environmentalist movements in Malaysian democracy: The transformation of activist cultureAhmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid (Universiti Sains Malaysia) and Mohamad FaizalAbdMatalib (Universiti Utara Malaysia)
13 Alternative or mainstream? Independent book publishing in MalaysiaMuhammad Febriansyah and Sharifah Nursyahidah (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)
PART III IDENTITIES AND NARRATIVES: CULTURE AND MEDIA
14 Fear and loathing in legal limbo: Reimagining the refugee in Malaysian public discourse and historyGerhard Hoffstaedter (University of Queensland) and Nicole Lamb (University of Sydney)
15 Negotiating dual identities: Narratives from two Myanmar refugee youths living in MalaysiaCharity Lee (Universiti Malaya) and Zuraidah Mohd Don (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
16 Expressing alternative modernities in a new nation through Iban popular music, 1960s-1970sConnie Lim Keh Nie (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak) and Made Mantle Hood (Universiti Putra Malaysia)
17 Reframing the national culture narrative of P. Ramlee Adil Johan (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)
18 Genre, gender and temporal critique in Budak Kelantan and BunohanNorman Yusoff (Universiti Teknologi MARA)
19 Left of the dial: BFM 89.9FM independent radio station and its indie-friendly midnight programming as a site of sustainabilityAzmyl Yusof (Monash University Malaysia)
20 Postcolonial indigenous storytellers and the making of a counter-discourse to the 'civilising process' in Malaysia Zawawi Ibrahim (Taylor's U
About the Author: Zawawi Ibrahim is currently a visiting professor at Taylor's University, Malaysia. His was most recently Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Working within the field of anthropology broadly understood, his wide-ranging research interests include youth, popular culture, storytelling and narratives, religious diversity and multiculturalism. He is the author of The Malay labourer (1995), and co-editor of Human insecurities in Southeast Asia (2016) and Borneo studies in history, society and culture (2017). He is a member of the EU-funded research project 'Radicalisation, Secularism and the Governance of Religion: Bringing together European and Asian Perspectives' (2019-2021).
Gareth Richards is a writer, editor and bookseller based in Malaysia. He previously taught at Manchester University, the University of the Philippines and Universiti Malaya. He is the director of the editorial company Impress Creative and Editorial, the owner of Gerakbudaya Bookshop, Penang, and co-founded the arts space Hikayat. He is the co-author/editor of Asia-Europe interregionalism: Critical perspectives (1999), the writer of the texts for two books of photography: Portraits of Penang: Little India (2011) and Panicrama (2016) as well as numerous articles on film, dance, literature and music. He is currently writing a book on the artist Ch'ng Kiah Kiean.
Victor T. King is Professor of Borneo Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, and Emeritus Professor in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds. He has long-standing interests in the sociology and anthropology of Southeast Asia. His recent publications are UNESCO in Southeast Asia: World Heritage Sites in comparative perspective (ed., 2016), and co-edited books on Human insecurities in Southeast Asia (2016), Borneo studies in history, society and culture (2017), Tourism and ethnodevelopment (2018), Tourism in East and Southeast Asia (2018, 4-volume reader), and Tourism in South-East Asia (2019).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789813345676
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 493
  • Series Title: Asia in Transition
  • Sub Title: Critical Perspectives
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9813345675
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jun 2021
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 32 mm
  • Weight: 1051 gr


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