Discourses, agency and identity in Malaysia : critical perspectives / Zawawi Ibrahim, Gareth Richards, Victor T. King, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zawawi Ibrahim, editor.

Richards, Gareth (Ismail Gareth), editor.

King, Victor T., editor.

Series:

Asia in transition (Springer (Firm)) ; 2364-8252 v. 13.

Asia in transition, 2364-8252 ; volume13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malaysia--Social conditions.

Malaysia.

Social conditions.

Malaysia--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 561 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book seeks to break new ground, both empirically and conceptually, in examining discourses of identity formation and the agency of critical social practices in Malaysia. Taking an inclusive cultural studies perspective, it questions the ideological narrative of race and ethnicity that dominates explanations of conflicts and cleavages in the Malaysian context. The contributions are organised in three broad themes. Identities in Contestation: Borders, Complexities and Hybridities' takes a range of empirical studies literary translation, religion, gender, ethnicity, indigeneity and sexual orientation to break down preconceived notions of fixed identities. This then opens up an examination of identities and Movements: Agency and Alternative Discourses in which contributors deal with counter-hegemonic social movements of antiracism, young people, environmentalism and independent publishing that explicitly seek to open up greater critical, democratic space within the Malaysian polity. The third section, Identities and Narratives: Culture and Media then provides a close textual reading of some exemplars of new cultural and media practices found in personal testimonies, popular music, film, radio programming and storytelling who have consciously created bodies of work that question the dominant national narrative.

Contents:

Introduction

Culture and identity on the move: Malaysia in Southeast Asia

The travelling text: Print cultures and translation in Penang and beyond

In body and spirit: Redefining gender complementarity in Muslim Southeast Asia

The quest for the good life at the edge of Malaysia:Our people, the life of government and the life of prayer

Positioning Bajau identities as Bumiputera: Challenges and potentials of leveraging environmental justice and espousal of Islam in Sabah, Malaysia

Sustaining local food cultures and identities in Malaysia with the disruptive power of tourism and social media

Negotiating sinful self and desire: The diverse sexualities of non-heteronormative Malay-Muslim men in Malaysia

Ah Beng subculture in Malaysia and the anti-thesis of global habitus

Anti-Blackness in Malaysia: The Bandung spirit and African-Asian critique in Richard Wright's The Color Curtain

The emergence of new social movements in Malaysia: A case study of youth activism

Environmentalist movements in Malaysian democracy: The transformation of activist culture

Alternative or mainstream? Independent book publishing in Malaysia

Fear and loathing in legal limbo: Reimagining the refugee in Malaysian public discourse and history

Negotiating dual identities: Narratives from two Myanmar refugee youths living in Malaysia

Expressing alternative modernities in a new nation through Iban popular music, 1960s-1970s

Reframing the national culture narrative of P. Ramlee

Genre, gender and temporal critique in Budak Kelantan and Bunohan

Left of the dial: BFM 89.9FM independent radio station and its indie-friendly midnight programming as a site of sustainability

Postcolonial indigenous storytellers and the making of a counter-discourse to the civilising process in Malaysia

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9813345675

9789813345676

OCLC:

1202054843

Publisher Number:

99989036979