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Ghost Lives of the Pendatang

Author : Parthiban Muniandy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9813362006
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Lives of the Pendatang written by Parthiban Muniandy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an ethnographic study of migrants, refugees and ‘temporary’ people in Malaysia, incorporating narratives, personal stories, and observations of everyday life in Kuala Lumpur and Georgetown, Penang. Rather than focusing on specific migrant communities or refugee ‘camps’, the book takes subaltern cosmopolitanism as its central lens to look at how different and diverse communities of non-citizen ‘pendatang’ (aliens) co-habit, work and live together in Malaysia. Urban centers in Malaysia offer the space for informality that allow stateless and undocumented people to seek out opportunities, while also finding ways to assimilate or even ‘disappear’ into the fabric of society. The book focuses on the notion of ‘contaminations’, rather than migration or migrants, to underscore one of the most important findings of the ethnographic study – that migrant life in Malaysia is critically integral, embedded and interwoven into the everyday life in the city - shaping and affecting all aspects of daily life from production and supply chains, food service networks, cultural and religious practices, waste and recycling work, to more intimate and private contexts such as romantic relationships, family life and sex-work. Hybridity, inter-mixing and bastardization are part and parcel of everyday urbanism in KL and Penang – these ‘contaminating elements’ challenge and disrupt categories of the ‘national’ and categories such as insider/outsider, national purity, and politically constructed divisions between ethnic and racial groups. The book thus relies upon detailed ethnographic narratives curated over a decade of study, offering students interested in fieldwork research insights into the types of engagements and commitments necessary for helping build the complex, uneasy and destabilizing knowledge that characterizes critical ethnography.

Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Author : Robert Desjarlais
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031191935
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic written by Robert Desjarlais and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, written in a readable and enticing style, is based on a simple premise, which was to have several exceptional ethnographers write about their experiences in an evocative way in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than an edited volume with dedicated chapters, this book thus offers a new format wherein authors write several, distinct dispatches, each short and compact, allowing each writer's perspectives and stories to grow, in tandem with the pandemic itself, over the course of the book. Leaving behind the trope of the lonely anthropologist, these authors come together to form a collective of ethnographers to ask important questions, such as: What does it mean to live and write amid an unfolding and unstoppable global health and economic crisis? What are the intensities of the everyday? How do the isolated find connection in the face of catastrophe? Such first-person reflections touch on a plurality of themes brought on by the pandemic, forces and dynamics of pressing concern to many, such as contagion, safety, health inequalities, societal injustices, loss and separation, displacement, phantasmal imaginings and possibilities, the uncertain arts of calculating risk and protection, limits on movement and travel, and the biopolitical operations of sovereign powers. The various writings—spun from diverse situations and global locations—proceed within a temporal flow, starting in March 2020, with the first alerts and cases of viral infection, and then move on to various currents of caution, concern, infection, despair, hope, and connection that have unfolded since those early days. The writings then move into 2021, with events and moods associated with the global distribution of potentially effective vaccines and the promise and hope these immunizations bring. The written record of these multiform dispatches involves traces of a series of lives, as the authors of those lives tried to make do, and write, in trying times. A timely ethnography of an event that has changed all our lives, this book is critical reading for students and researchers of medical anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, contemporary anthropological theory, and ethnographic writing.

New Media in the Margins

Author : Benjamin YH Loh
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811971412
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book New Media in the Margins written by Benjamin YH Loh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of nine chapters, each an in-depth case study into a specific non-mainstream or marginalized online community in Malaysia. The authors come from diverse backgrounds to talk about how new media can both assist and hinder maligned minorities, ignored ethnicities or the often attacked migrants in their day to day lives. The book makes a strong contribution to Malaysian studies which highlights the other and represents minority viewpoints to challenge the belief that Malaysia’s online space is monolithic and limited to several mainstream discourses in Malaysian scholarship.

Ghost Citizens

Author : Jamie Chai Yun Liew
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1773636782
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Citizens written by Jamie Chai Yun Liew and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-22T00:00:00Z with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost Citizens is about in situ stateless people, persons who live in a country they consider their own but which does not recognize them as citizens. Liew develops the concept of the “ghost citizen” to understand a global experience and a double oppression: of being invisible and feared in law. The term also refers to two troubling state practices: ghosting their own citizens and conferring ghost citizenship (casting persons as foreigners without legal proof). Told through an examination of law, legal processes and interviews with stateless persons and their advocates, this deeply researched book examines international and domestic jurisprudence as well as administrative decision making to show an emerging practice where states are pointing to a mother figure, constructed in law as racialized, foreign and potentially disloyal, to depict persons as not kin and therefore the responsibility of other states. By tracing British colonial legal vestiges in the case study of Malaysia, Liew shows how contemporary post-colonial, democratic and multi-juridical states deploy law and its processes and historical ideas of racial categories to create and maintain statelessness. This book challenges established norms of state recognition and calls for a discussion of ideas borrowed from other areas of law, including Indigenous legal traditions and family law, on how we should organize our communities with more respectful relations and treatment among kin.

A comprehensive Indonesian-English Dictionary

Author : Alan M. Stevens
Publisher : PT Mizan Publika
ISBN 13 : 9789794333877
Total Pages : 1132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book A comprehensive Indonesian-English Dictionary written by Alan M. Stevens and published by PT Mizan Publika. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mesmerizing Ghost Doctor

Author : Feng Jiong
Publisher : WWW.WEBNOVEL.COM (Cloudary Holdings Limited)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mesmerizing Ghost Doctor written by Feng Jiong and published by WWW.WEBNOVEL.COM (Cloudary Holdings Limited). This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Download Webnovel to read latest Mesmerizing Ghost Doctor! She, a modern hidden ghost leader of an organization which gathered insane prodigies proficient in the various differing skill-sets. Highly skilled in medicine and poison, executes covert assassinations, viewed as insane and demonic in the eyes of people of the world. Killed in an accident, and reborn into the body of a disfigured young girl. What? Face disfigured, identity stolen? A return to the family dim and hopeless? Her identity can be given up, her family can be forgone, but as for the one who harmed her predecessor who inhabited this same body, if she didn’t at least make them scream in unimaginable agony and throw them into a state of wretchedness, how could she live up to her demonic reputation? Endless turmoil ensues and it’s a battle to dominate over all! See how she shook the world dressed in a suit of red, her sword up against the dominant powers that rocked the Heavens! Her name spread across the seas, shocking the earth!

Irregular Migrants and the Sea at the Borders of Sabah, Malaysia

Author : Vilashini Somiah
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030904172
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Irregular Migrants and the Sea at the Borders of Sabah, Malaysia written by Vilashini Somiah and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploration of the relationship between irregular migrants, many originating from southern Philippines and the sea, in their struggle against the realities of state power in Sabah. As their numbers grow exponentially into the 21st century, the only solution currently provided by the Malaysian government is routine repatriation. Yet, despite increased border security, they continue to return. Thus the question: why do deported migrants return, time and again, despite the serious risk of being caught? This book explores the ways in which these irregular migrants contest inconvenient national sea boundaries, the trauma of detention and deportation, and other impositions of state power by drawing on supernatural support from the sea itself. The sea empowers them, and through individual narratives of the sea, we learn that the migrants’ encounter with the state and its legal system only intensifies rather than discourages their relationship with the Malaysian state.

Identity in Crossroad Civilisations

Author : Erich Kolig
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089641270
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Identity in Crossroad Civilisations written by Erich Kolig and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deze bundel gaat over de vorming van identiteit door het samenspel van etniciteit, nationalisme en de effecten van globalisering. De essays in Crossroad Civilisations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia maken de gelaagdheid en de complexiteit hiervan duidelijk.

Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh

Author : Marjaana Jauhola
Publisher : Helsinki University Press
ISBN 13 : 9523690175
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh written by Marjaana Jauhola and published by Helsinki University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh examines the rebuilding of the city of Banda Aceh in Indonesia in the aftermath of the celebrated Helsinki-based peace mediation process, thirty years of armed conflict, and the tsunami. Offering a critical contribution to the study of post-conflict politics, the book includes 14 documentary videos reflecting individuals’ experiences on rebuilding the city and following the everyday lives of people in Banda Aceh. Marjaana Jauhola mirrors the peace-making process from the perspective of the ‘outcast’ and invisible, challenging the selective narrative and ideals of the peace as a success story. Jauhola provides alternative ways to reflect the peace dialogue using ethnographic and film documentarist storytelling. Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh tells a story of layered exiles and displacement, revealing hidden narratives of violence and grief while exposing struggles over gendered expectations of being good and respectable women and men. It brings to light the multiple ways of arranging lives and forming caring relationships outside the normative notions of nuclear family and home, and offers insights into the relations of power and violence that are embedded in the peace.

Language and Superdiversity

Author : Zane Goebel
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Sociolinguis
ISBN 13 : 0199795428
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Language and Superdiversity written by Zane Goebel and published by Oxford Studies in Sociolinguis. This book was released on 2015 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of language ideology have encouraged us to reflect on and explore where social categories come from, how they have been reproduced, and whether and to what extent they are relevant to everyday interactional practices. Taking up on these issues, this book focuses on how ethnicity has been semiotically constructed, valued, and reproduced in Indonesia since Dutch colonial times, and how this category is drawn upon in everyday talk. In doing so, this book also seeks to engage with scholarship on superdiversity while highlighting some points of engagement with work on ideas about community. The book draws upon a broad range of scholarship on Indonesia, recordings of Indonesian television from the mid-1990s onwards, and recordings of the talk of Indonesian students living in Japan. It is argued that some of the main mechanisms for the reproduction and revaluation of ethnicity and its links with linguistic form include waves of technological innovations that bring people into contact (e.g. changes in transportation infrastructure, introduction of print media, television, radio, the internet, etc.), and the increasing use of one-to-many participation frameworks such as school classrooms and the mass media. In examining the talk of sojourning Indonesians the book goes on to explore how ideologies about ethnicity are used to establish and maintain convivial social relations while in Japan. Maintaining such relationships is not a trivial thing and it is argued that the pursuit of conviviality is an important practice because of its relationship with broader concerns about eking out a living.

Politics of the Temporary

Author : Parthiban Muniandy
Publisher : Strategic Information and Research Development Centre
ISBN 13 : 9670960290
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Politics of the Temporary written by Parthiban Muniandy and published by Strategic Information and Research Development Centre. This book was released on 2017 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than three decades Malaysia’s economic growth has been driven in part by the skills and sweat of large numbers of migrant workers. The country has become the temporary home for more than two million documented migrants. Many more than that are undocumented, living precarious lives on the margins of society. In cities like Kuala Lumpur and George Town, workers from Indonesia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Burma, the Philippines, Vietnam and China contribute in seen and unseen ways to the lives of others. They are the servers and cooks in restaurants, maids and nannies in homes, street cleaners, construction workers, social escorts, sex workers and micro-entrepreneurs. But very little is known or understood about their everyday lives. Their voices have been silent. For the first time, 'Politics of the Temporary' details the rich, complex and often difficult realities of the lives of migrants in Malaysia – experiences that are for the most part hidden from public consciousness and awareness. Through a series of reflective and critical ethnographic notes – and told in the words of migrants themselves – Parthiban Muniandy provides an intimate examination of the many ways that migrants adapt to life in the city, their innovative strategies for coping with pressures of work and discrimination, and their capacity to forge new networks and build informal communities. This book should be read by all those interested in the harsh realities of contemporary labour migration and social inequalities in a developing economy.

Wartime Kitchen

Author : Hong Suen Wong
Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
ISBN 13 : 9814217581
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Wartime Kitchen written by Hong Suen Wong and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2009 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wartime Kitchen: Food And Eating In Singapore (1942-1950) Captures The Resilience And Adaptability Of A People Faced With Limited Resources And Shortages During The Japanese Occupation And In Post-War Singapore, Never Before Examined In Detail.

Governing New Guinea

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004260455
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Governing New Guinea written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first time that indigenous Papuan administrators share with an international public their experiences in governing their country. Having been in active service until their retirement in the early 1990s their oral histories allow for a complete recounting of political and administrative transformations under the Indonesian governance of Irian Jaya/Papua.

Building on Borrowed Time

Author : Lukas Ley
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452962898
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Building on Borrowed Time written by Lukas Ley and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely ethnography of how Indonesia’s coastal dwellers inhabit the “chronic present” of a slow-motion natural disaster Ice caps are melting, seas are rising, and densely populated cities worldwide are threatened by floodwaters, especially in Southeast Asia. Building on Borrowed Time is a timely and powerful ethnography of how people in Semarang, Indonesia, on the north coast of Java, are dealing with this global warming–driven existential challenge. In addition to antiflooding infrastructure breaking down, vast areas of cities like Semarang and Jakarta are rapidly sinking, affecting the very foundations of urban life: toxic water oozes through the floors of houses, bridges are submerged, traffic is interrupted. As Lukas Ley shows, the residents of Semarang are constantly engaged in maintaining their homes and streets, trying to live through a slow-motion disaster shaped by the interacting temporalities of infrastructural failure, ecological deterioration, and urban development. He casts this predicament through the temporal lens of a “meantime,” a managerial response that means a constant enduring of the present rather than progress toward a better future—a “chronic present.” Building on Borrowed Time takes us to a place where a flood crisis has already arrived—where everyday residents are not waiting for the effects of climate change but are in fact already living with it—and shows that life in coastal Southeast Asia is defined not by the temporality of climate science but by the lived experience of tidal flooding.

Standard Indonesian-English Dictionary

Author : Peter Salim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 938 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Standard Indonesian-English Dictionary written by Peter Salim and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Best I Could

Author : Subhas Anandan
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)
ISBN 13 : 9789814677813
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (778 download)

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Download or read book The Best I Could written by Subhas Anandan and published by Marshall Cavendish International (Asia). This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best I Could traces the life and career of Subhas Anandan, an advocate whose tireless devotion to the Singapore criminal justice system is legendary. In this highly personal autobiography, first published in 2009, Subhas describes not only the many sensational cases he covered, including those of Took Leng How, Anthony Ler and Ah Long San, but also his views on mandatory death sentences and police entrapment.' Subhas Anandan, who passed away in January 2015 surely was the face of criminal defense in Singapore. But why did he choose to represent clients who were to all intents and purposes guilty? And were the criminals he represented the monsters they were made out to be? Did he ever feel sorry for the clients he represented? What were his views on the death penalty, and which parts of the legal system did he want reformed? Read all about this in The Best I Could."

Cosmopolitan Sex Workers

Author : Christine B.N. Chin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199890919
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan Sex Workers written by Christine B.N. Chin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of the women who migrate for sex work, the organizations that facilitate these placements and the hierarchies that persist within the trade, all of which unfold in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.