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Overcoming Passion for Race in Malaysia Cultural Studies

Author : David C.L. Lim
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 904743370X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Overcoming Passion for Race in Malaysia Cultural Studies written by David C.L. Lim and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overcoming Passion examines the passion for race in contemporary Malaysia. Broadly the essays look at the disjunction between the falsity of race as a scientific category and the entrenched belief that race determines one's rightful identity. They probe the ways in which individual minds and institutions of power fail or refuse to recognise and act in accordance with the knowledge that race exists only insofar as its existence is sustained by the believer's belief in it. The contributors draw from a burgeoning but under-examined archive of Malaysia-related social texts, ranging from media and technological discourse, popular culture and literary production to historical writings, produced originally in English, Malay and Mandarin Chinese.

Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia

Author : David C. L. Lim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136592474
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia written by David C. L. Lim and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation, and how film also serves as a site of contestations between social and political agents seeking to promote, challenge, or erase certain meanings, messages or ideas from public circulation. A unique feature of the book is that it focuses as much on films as it does on the societies from which these films emerge: it considers the reasons for film-makers taking the positions they take; the positions and counter-positions taken; the response of different communities; and the extent to which these interventions are connected to global flows of culture and capital. The wide range of subjects covered include documentaries as political interventions in Singapore; political film-makers’ collectives in the Philippines, and films about prostitution in Cambodia and patriotism in Malaysia, and the Chinese in Indonesia. The book analyses films from Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines, across a broad range of productions – such as mainstream and independent features across genres (for example comedy, patriotic, political, historical genres) alongside documentary, classic and diasporic films.

New Media and the Nation in Malaysia

Author : Susan Leong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134601255
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book New Media and the Nation in Malaysia written by Susan Leong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the four decades or so since its invention, the internet has become pivotal to how many societies function, influencing how individual citizens interact with and respond to their governments. Within Southeast Asia, while most governments subscribe to the belief that new media technological advancement improves their nation’s socio-economic conditions, they also worry about its cultural and political effects. This book examines how this set of dynamics operates through its study of new media in contemporary Malaysian society. Using the social imaginary framework and adopting a socio-historical approach, the book explains the varied understandings of new media as a continuing process wherein individuals and their societies operate in tandem to create, negotiate and enact the meaning ascribed to concepts and ideas. In doing so, it also highlights the importance of non-users to national technological policies. Through its examination of the ideation and development of Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor mega project to-date and reference to the seminal socio-political events of 2007-2012 including the 2008 General Elections, Bersih and Hindraf rallies, this book provides a clear explanation for new media’s prominence in the multi-ethnic and majority Islamic society of Malaysia today. It is of interest to academics working in the field of Media and Internet Studies and Southeast Asian Politics.

The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia

Author : Juanita Elias
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107122333
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia written by Juanita Elias and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the way that forms of economic policymaking are sustained and challenged by everyday practices across Southeast Asia.

Human Rights Dilemmas in the Developing World

Author : E. Ike Udogu
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498560008
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Dilemmas in the Developing World written by E. Ike Udogu and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings the quandaries that many minority groups confront in Latin America, Asia and Africa into the limelight. The chapters in this volume—written by experts on this subject-matter—examine and provide invaluable solutions to the human rights infractions in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, Angola, Cameroon, Gabon, Nigeria and South Africa.

Inside Cultures

Author : William Balée
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000411338
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Inside Cultures written by William Balée and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise, contemporary option for instructors of cultural anthropology breaks away from the traditional structure of introductory textbooks. Emphasizing the interaction between humans and their environment, the tension between human universals and cultural variation, and the impacts of colonialism on traditional cultures, Inside Cultures shows students how cultural anthropology can help us understand the complex, globalized world around us. This third edition: contains brand new material on many subjects, including anthropological approaches to anti-racism social movements in the Global North during 2020; includes findings in anthropological research regarding the Covid-19 pandemic, and its relation to other recent global events and conditions; updates the organization and presentation of cultural universals and cultural variations; presents updated and enhanced discussions of anthropological studies of humankind and the environment, with expanded analysis of industrial agriculture in the age of globalization; includes more illustrations and updates to existing illustrations, sidebars, and guideposts throughout the volume; is written in clear, supple prose that delights readers while informing on content of one of the important courses in a liberal arts education, one that effectively bridges humanities and the sciences.

The Political Economy of Brain Drain and Talent Capture

Author : Adam Tyson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429773161
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Brain Drain and Talent Capture written by Adam Tyson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brain drain and talent capture are important issues globally, and especially crucial in countries such as Malaysia and Singapore, which aspire to be innovation-driven advanced economies. This book provides a thorough analysis of the impact of brain drain on middle-income Malaysia and high-income Singapore, where the political salience of the problem in both countries is high. It discusses the wider issues associated with brain drain, such as when rich countries increase their already plentiful stocks of, for example, medical practitioners and engineers at the expense of relatively poor countries, examines the policies put in place in Malaysia and Singapore to counter the problem and explores how the situation is further complicated in Malaysia and Singapore because of these countries’ extensive state interventionism and sociopolitical tensions and hierarchies based on ethnicity, religion and nationality. Overall, the book contends that talent enrichment initiatives serve to construct and secure privilege and ethnic hierarchy within and between countries, as well as to reinforce the political power base of governments.

The Postcolonial Millennium

Author : Mohammad A. Quayum
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040012140
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial Millennium written by Mohammad A. Quayum and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises a collection of essays that address a significant gap in the study of Malaysian Literature in English by exploring selected local and diasporic writings produced in the new postcolonial millennium, including works by established, emerging, and new writers. The literary developments in this new millennium have been substantial and are reflected in the production of new voices, viewpoints, themes, trends, styles, and forms. By articulating these changing postcolonial perspectives and conditions, the chapters in this volume can inform and enrich the study of nation, society, and culture in a globalized and hyperreal age. Tapping into the difference, diversity, and hybridity of 21st-century historicized and glocalized multicultural Malaysia, the millennium writings explore the changing identities and relations and their social, cultural, and political dimensions through the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class. By examining new, different, or changing ideas, forms, themes, and representations, this book considers the vital ways the millennium voices and viewpoints can potentially help us critically rethink and resituate postcolonial studies on Malaysia as they spotlight challenges and new directions in the field. The book will be of interest to researchers, academics, and scholars in the field of Malaysian writing in English, Southeast Asian literature, Asian literature, diaspora, and literary studies. The chapters in the book were originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

Understanding Racism in a Post-Racial World

Author : Sunshine Kamaloni
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030109852
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Racism in a Post-Racial World written by Sunshine Kamaloni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the question: how can we talk about race in a world that is considered post-racial, a world where race doesn’t exist? Kamaloni engages with the tradition of everyday racism and traces the process of racialisation through the interaction of bodies in space. Exploring the embodied experience exposes the idea of post-racialism as a response to continued cultural anxieties about race and the desire to erase it. Understanding Racism in a Post-Racial World presents a broader question about what everyday encounters about race might tell us about the current cultural construction of race. The book provides a much-needed investigation of the intersection of race, bodies and space as a critical part of how bodies and spaces become racialised, and will be of value to students and scholars interested in understanding and discussing race across interdisciplinary areas such as cultural studies, communication, gender studies, geography, body studies, literature studies and urban studies.

Historical Dictionary of Malaysia

Author : Ooi Keat Gin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538108852
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Malaysia written by Ooi Keat Gin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malaysia is one of the most intriguing countries in Asia in many respects. It consists of several distinct areas, not only geographically but ethnically as well; along with Malays and related groups, the country has a very large Indian and Chinese population. The spoken languages obviously vary at home, although Bahasa Malaysia is the official language and nearly everyone speaks English. There is also a mixture of religions, with Islam predominating among the Malays and others, Hinduism and Sikhism among the Indians, mainly Daoism and Confucianism among the Chinese, but also some Christians as well as older indigenous beliefs in certain places. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Malaysia contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Malaysia.

Cultural Essentialism in Intercultural Relations

Author : Fred Dervin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137498609
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Essentialism in Intercultural Relations written by Fred Dervin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of culture has long been criticized, with many scholars reformulating it or discarding it entirely. The field of intercultural communication and relations, however, still relies on culture to examine interculturality and this volume provides a comprehensive examination of the problems that the concept poses today.

The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back

Author : Grace V. S. Chin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811070652
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back written by Grace V. S. Chin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines how Southeast Asian women writers engage with the grand narratives of nationalism and the modern nation-state by exploring the representations of gender, identity and nation in the postcolonial literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Bringing to light the selected works of overlooked local women writers and providing new analyses of those produced by internationally-known women authors and artists, the essays situate regional literary developments within historicized geopolitical landscapes to offer incisive analyses and readings on how women and the feminine are imagined, represented, and positioned in relation to the Southeast Asian nation.The book, which features both cross-country comparative analyses and country-specific investigations, also considers the ideas of the nation and the state by investigating related ideologies, rhetoric, apparatuses, and discourses, and the ways in which they affect women’s bodies, subjectivities, and lived realities in both historical and contemporary Southeast Asian contexts. By considering how these literary expressions critique, contest, or are complicit in nationalist projects and state-mandated agendas, the collection contributes to the overall regional and comparative discourses on gender, identity and nation in Southeast Asian studies.

Malaysian Cinema in the New Millennium

Author : Adrian Yuen Beng Lee
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888528521
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Malaysian Cinema in the New Millennium written by Adrian Yuen Beng Lee and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malaysian Cinema in the New Millennium offers a new approach to the study of multiculturalism in cinema by analysing how a new wave of filmmakers champion cultural diversity using cosmopolitan themes. Adrian Lee offers a new inquiry of Malaysian cinema that examines how the ‘Malaysian Digital Indies’ (MDI) have in recent years repositioned Malaysian cinema within the global arena. The book shines a new light on how politics and socioeconomics have influenced new forms and genres of the post-2000s generation of filmmakers, and provides a clear picture of the interactions between commercial cinema and politics and socioeconomics in the first two decades of the new millennium. It also assesses how the MDI movement was successful in creating a transnational cinema by displacing and deterritorialising itself from the context of the national, and illustrates how MDI functions as a site for questioning and proposing a new national identity in the era of advanced global capitalism and new Islamisation. Covering all these interrelated topics, Lee’s book is a pioneering and comprehensive work in the study of Malaysian cinema in the recent decades. ‘Lee is well versed in theories of transnational and postcolonial studies and provides detailed and knowledgeable information about this period of filmmaking in Malaysia. I believe this book will make a valuable contribution to the studies of film in Southeast Asia.’ —Olivia Khoo, Monash University, Australia ‘The author comprehensively discusses the rise of Malaysian Digital Indies (MDI) in post-2000 Malaysia, the revival of form and aesthetics in comparison to mainstream films, the MDI’s emergence in the Malaysian context, and finally the MDI’s incorporation into the mainstream films.’ —Nunna Prasad, Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates

Intellectual Property Regime Evolution in China and India

Author : Paul Irwin Crookes
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047444051
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Property Regime Evolution in China and India written by Paul Irwin Crookes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is behind the changing attitudes towards intellectual property in India and China? This exploration of empirically-based research comparisons on the character of intellectual property systems found in these two countries, offers answers to three key questions: what are the drivers that have moved them towards a closer embrace of IP norms, how have domestic and systemic influences shaped the character of this embrace, and how have state and non-state actors interacted within the international system to promote this transformation? Focusing on the software and IT services industries, it illuminates the policy drivers that have influenced IP regime adoption, and helps our understanding the process by providing a clear framework of distinctive phases of technological, political and social development.

In Camps

Author : Jana K. Lipman
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520343662
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book In Camps written by Jana K. Lipman and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the US war in Vietnam, close to 800,000 Vietnamese left the country by boat, survived, and sought refuge throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific. This is the story of what happened in the camps. In Camps raises key questions that remain all too relevant today: Who is a refugee? Who determines this status? And how does it change over time? From Guam to Malaysia and the Philippines to Hong Kong, In Camps is the first major work on Vietnamese refugee policy to pay close attention to host territories and to explore Vietnamese activism in the camps and the diaspora. This book explains how Vietnamese were transformed from de facto refugees to individual asylum seekers to repatriates. Ambitiously covering people on the ground—local governments, teachers, and corrections officers—as well as powerful players such as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the US government, Jana Lipman shows that the local politics of first asylum sites often drove international refugee policy. Unsettling most accounts of Southeast Asian migration to the US, In Camps instead emphasizes the contingencies inherent in refugee policy and experiences.

Popular Music in East and Southeast Asia

Author : Mayco A Santaella
Publisher : Sunway University Press
ISBN 13 : 9675492732
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book Popular Music in East and Southeast Asia written by Mayco A Santaella and published by Sunway University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Music in East and Southeast Asia: Sonic (under)Currents and Currencies presents contemporary perspectives of the music discipline in East and Southeast Asia. It considers global influences, national industries, and regional genres with examples from Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and the United States. This book contains local perspectives on the conceptualisation of music genres, scenes, and industries, offering a comprehensive inter-Asia matrix for popular music studies. This book is suitable for educators and music enthusiasts.

Global Medicine in China

Author : Wayne Soon
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503614018
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Global Medicine in China written by Wayne Soon and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938, one year into the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese military found itself in dire medical straits. Soldiers were suffering from deadly illnesses, and were unable to receive blood transfusions for their wounds. The urgent need for medical assistance prompted an unprecedented flowering of scientific knowledge in China and Taiwan throughout the twentieth century. Wayne Soon draws on archives from three continents to argue that Overseas Chinese were key to this development, utilizing their global connections and diasporic links to procure much-needed money, supplies, and medical expertise. The remarkable expansion of care and education that they spurred saved more than four million lives and trained more than fifteen thousand medical personnel. Moreover, the introduction of military medicine shifted biomedicine out of elite, urban civilian institutions and laboratories and transformed it into an adaptive field-based practice for all. Universal care, practical medical education, and mobile medicine are all lasting legacies of this effort.