Just who are 'the Malays'? This provocative study poses the question and considers how
and why the answers have changed over time, and from one region to another. Anthony …

During a visit to Beruas, a small village-town in West Malaysia in 2005, I was alarmed by the
fact that more and more grandmothers were speaking to their grandchildren in bad …

Taming Babel sheds new light on the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial
Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse territories in the British …

In this richly contextualized study, Liana Chua explores how a largely Christian Bidayuh
community has been reconfiguring its relationship to its old animist rituals through the trope …

This book explores a central tension in identity politics–how the state, civil society and
people in general may want to create and maintain cultural, religious and social cohesion …

Being Malaysian at the start of the twenty-first century is often defined in two primary ways:
the strategic aims of party politics and everyday teh tarik nationalism. The former requires no …

This book provides an overview of the current state of Malaysia, looking at political and
economic developments and at governance, and discussing the impact of ethnicity …

This paper provides a brief introduction to the current independent film movement in
Malaysia. I will then analyse some of the short films through theories of cosmopolitanism and …

This paper analyses Malaysia's English language policies, especially since the mid 1990s,
in the light of more recent claims for a united Malaysian nation (under the banner of bangsa …

Texts written by Southeast Asian migrants have often been read, taught, and studied under
the label of multicultural literature. But what if the ideology of multiculturalism—with its …