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Discourses, agency and identity in Malaysia critical perspectives

Title
Discourses, agency and identity in Malaysia [electronic resource] : critical perspectives / Zawawi Ibrahim, Gareth Richards, Victor T. King, editors.
Publication
Singapore : Springer, 2021.

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Additional Authors
  • Zawawi Ibrahim
  • Richards, Gareth
  • King, Victor T.
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Description
1 online resource.
Series Statement
Asia in transition, 2364-8260 ; v. 13
Uniform Title
Asia in transition (Springer (Firm)) ; v. 13.
Subject
  • Malaysia > Social conditions
  • Malaysia > Social life and customs
Note
  • Includes index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
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.
ISBN
  • 9789813345683
  • 9813345683
LCCN
10.1007/978-981-33-4568-3
OCLC
om1242490346
Title
Discourses, agency and identity in Malaysia [electronic resource] : critical perspectives / Zawawi Ibrahim, Gareth Richards, Victor T. King, editors.
Imprint
Singapore : Springer, 2021.
Series
Asia in transition, 2364-8260 ; v. 13
Asia in transition (Springer (Firm)) ; v. 13.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Source of description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 28, 2021).
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Available from home with a valid library card
Added Author
Zawawi Ibrahim, editor.
Richards, Gareth, editor.
King, Victor T., editor.
EBSCOhost
Other Form:
Print version: 9813345675 9789813345676
Other Standard Identifier
10.1007/978-981-33-4568-3 doi
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