A Malaysian Journey

Author's account on his journey through the nation as a journalist visiting and exploring every Malaysian state.

John Hilley provides a theoretically informed and insightful analysis of the Mahathir project. He examines how Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed has translated the basis of the ruling bloc's legitimacy from coercive domination and ethnic card-playing into a consensual form of hegemonic support. Hilley looks at his strides in using developmentalist

This book offers a scholarly perspective on heritage as a discourse, concept and lived experience in Malaysia. It argues that heritage is not a received narrative but a construct in the making. Starting with alternative ways of “museumising” heritage, the book then addresses a broad range of issues involving multicultural

Mahathir Mohamad turned Malaysia into one of the developing world's most successful economies. He adopted pragmatic economic policies alongside repressive political measures and showed that Islam was compatible with representative government and modernization. He emerged as a Third World champion and Islamic spokesman by standing up to the West.

In 1938, noting that the bulk of the Indian population formed a “landless proletariat” and despairing of the ability of the factionalized Indian community to unite in pursuit of common objectives, activist K.A. Neelakanda Ayer forecast that the fate of Indians in Malaya would be to become “Tragic orphans –

In the early 1990s, the animist and Hindu traces in adat, or Malay custom, became contentious for resurgent Islam in Malaysia. Reclaiming Adat focuses on the filmmakers, intellectuals, and writers who reclaimed adat to counter the homogenizing aspects of both Islamic discourse and globalization in this period. They practised their

Malaysia's constitution was set at the independence of the Federation of Malaya in 1957 along the lines of the Westminster model, embracing federalism and constitutional monarchy. That it has endured is explained in terms of the social contract agreed between the leaders of the three main ethnic groups (Malay, Chinese,

Based on fieldwork in Malaysia, this book provides a critical examination of the country's main urban region. The study first provides a theoretical reworking of geographies of modernity and details the emergence of a globally-oriented, 'high-tech' stage of national development. The Multimedia Super Corridor is framed in terms of a

Books about Far Eastern Economic Review

Focusing on writing in the 1990s from Malaysia and Singapore, this volume contains pieces which explore such issues as reliogion, homosexuality, the changing role of women in Asia, and the spiritual cost of the new materialism. Also featured are pieces by Han Suyin, K.S. Maniam and Toni Morrison.