Asian Research

Affirmative Action, Ethnicity and Conflict

Edited by Edmund Terence Gomez, Ralph Premdas

Series: Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

In recent years a number of countries have introduced affirmative action programmes in order to put right historical injustices and economic inequalities involving ethnic communities. This book examines affirmative action programmes in a range of countries around the world. It discusses how such...

Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge

Malaysia and the Developing World

The Asian Tiger on the Cinnamon Road

By Jan Stark

Series: Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

As Malaysia’s economy grows and flourishes, strong new links are being forged with other developing countries in the region and beyond. This book traces the ways in which age-old organizational, political, religious and trade networks between Nusantara, the Malay World, and Central Asia, East...

Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge

Ethnicization and Identity Construction in Malaysia

By Frederik Holst

Series: Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

This book is the first monograph to provide an in-depth and multifaceted study of the processes of ethnicization and identity construction in Malaysia, from the colonial period until the present. In his analysis, the author takes multiple layers of ethnicization into account and shows how these...

Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge

Malaysia's Development Challenges

Graduating from the Middle

Edited by Hal Hill, Tham Siew Yean, Ragayah Haji Mat Zin

Series: Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

This book examines the various economic, political and developmental policy challenges that Malaysia faces in her shift from a middle income to high-income economy. This issue is of great interest to academics, policy makers and development practitioners in the developing world, particularly in...

Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge

Media, Culture and Society in Malaysia

Edited by Yeoh Seng Guan

Series: Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

This book presents a comprehensive, full-length analysis of the uses of media and communication technologies by different social actors in Malaysia. Unlike other studies of the media in Malaysia which concentrate on "political economy" or "freedom of the media" approaches, this book focuses on the...

Published February 23rd 2010 by Routledge

Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia

Edited by Johan Saravanamuttu

Series: Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

Southeast Asia manifests some of the most interesting, non-violent as well as conflictual elements of Islamic social and political life in the world. This book examines the ways in which Muslim politics in Southeast Asia has greatly impacted democratic practice and contributed to its practical and...

Published December 9th 2009 by Routledge

Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore

Edited by Daniel P.S. Goh, Matilda Gabrielpillai, Philip Holden, Gaik Cheng Khoo

Series: Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

This book explores race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore from a range of different disciplinary perspectives, showing how race and multiculturalism are represented, how multiculturalism works out in practice, and how attitudes towards race and multiculturalism – and multicultural...

Published June 9th 2009 by Routledge

The State, Development and Identity in Multi-Ethnic Societies

Ethnicity, Equity and the Nation

Edited by Nicholas Tarling, Terence Gomez

Series: Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

The controversial work of Amy Chua argues that, as rapid modernization, industrialization, technological change and globalization bring about fundamental changes in national, ethnic and class identities, especially in developing countries, there is a danger that the laissez-faire capitalist system...

Published March 9th 2008 by Routledge