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Discourses, Agency and Identity in Malaysia

Discourses, Agency and Identity in Malaysia

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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 studiesliterary translation, religion, gender, ethnicity, indigeneity and sexual orientationto 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 movementsof anti-racism, young people, environmentalism and independent publishingthat explicitly seek to open up greater critical, democratic space within the Malaysian polity. The third section, Identities and Narratives: Culture and the Media, then provides a close textual reading of some exemplars of new cultural and media practices found in oral testimonies, popular music, film, radio programming and storytelling who have consciously created bodies of work that question the dominant national narrative. This book is a valuable interdisciplinary work for advanced students and researchers interested in representations of identity and nationhood in Malaysia, and for those with wider interests in the fields of critical cultural studies and discourse analysis. Here is a fresh, startling book to aid the task of unbinding the straitjackets of Malay, Chinese and Indian, with which colonialism bound Malaysias plural inheritance, and on which the postcolonial state continues to rely. In it, a panoply of unlikely identitiesBajau liminality, Kelabit philosophy, Islamic feminism, refugee hybridity and morefinds expression and offers hope for liberation. Rachel Leow, University of Cambridge This book shakes the foundations of race thinking in Malaysian studies by expanding the range of cases, perspectives and outcomes of identity. It offers students of Malaysia an examination of identity and agency that is expansive, critical and engaging, and its interdisciplinary depth brings Malaysian studies into conversation with scholarship across the world. Sumit Mandal, University of Nottingham Malaysia This is a much-needed work that helps us to take apart the colonial inherited categories of race which informed the notion of the plural society, the idea of plurality without multiculturalism. It complicates the picture of identity by bringing in religion, gender, indigeneity and sexual orientation, and helps us to imagine what a truly multiculturalist Malaysia might look like. Syed Farid Alatas, National University of Singapore.

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