This work traces the early rise and subsequent decline of
politically effective student activism in Malaysia. During the
1970s, the state embarked on a project of "intellectual
containment" that both suppressed ongoing mobilization of
university students and delegitimized further activism. That
project has been notably successful in curbing student protest,
erasing a legacy of past engagement, and stemming the production of
potentially subversive new ideas. Innovative student proposals for
reform that were once sanctioned and even welcomed (within bounds)
are now illicit and discouraged, reflecting not only changes in
Malaysia's political regime, but changes in the political culture
overall. This incisive study sheds new light on the dynamics of
mobilization and on the key role of students and universities in
postcolonial political development.
This analysis is based on extensive research, including
interviews with dozens of past and present student activists and a
close study of archives, government reports, firsthand accounts,
and student publications extending over decades. Student Activism
in Malaysia traces how higher education and student activism have
developed and interacted, beginning with the start of tertiary
education in early twentieth-century Singapore and extending to
present-day Malaysia. In the process, Weiss calls into question the
conventional wisdom that Malaysian students and Malaysians overall
have become "apathetic." The author demonstrates that this apparent
state of apathy is not inevitable, cultural, or natural, but is the
outcome of a sustained project of pacification and depoliticization
carried out by an ambitiously developmental state."
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