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Globalization can sometimes seem like an abstract concept, an
unconscious aspect of our everyday existence. What impact does it
have on the reality of our daily lives? How does it shape our
experiences, perspectives and identities? Narratives of
Globalization explores how a range of key ideas in the study of
globalization are made manifest in the lives of people all over the
world. Each chapter explores a key theme in globalization studies
that is explored through a narrative that draws on the contributors
own personal experience. It draws together a collection of
experiences from across the globe including Chinese migration to
Australia, the influence of the internet on education and the
popularity of K-pop. These personal perspectives on culture,
identity, development and politics attempt to better understand
contemporary issues within the global frame and illustrate how
ordinary people can engage with and influence processes of
globalization.
In this book, the author draws on over a decade of first-hand
experience as an academic-activist and on interviews with women in
Malaysia's women's rights movement. Despite a considerable array of
challenges to their participation in the public and political
spheres, the movement is especially vibrant. Presenting insights
from feminist activists in Malaysia, the book explores the Women's
Candidacy Initiative's efforts to promote independent women in
Parliament; the work of women's coalition the Joint Action Group
for Gender Equality; how activists understand and experience the
concept of feminism; and finally the place of men in feminism.
Women's Activism in Malaysia will be of interest to students and
scholars across a range of disciplines including gender studies,
politics and sociology.
Authenticity is much sought after; being described as inauthentic
is an insult or an embarrassment. Being authentic suggests that a
given behaviour or performance is reflective of a 'trueness' or
'genuineness' to one's identity. From a social science perspective
there is sometimes scepticism expressed about the historical
faithfulness of purported behaviours - such as when something is
referred to as an 'invented' tradition. However, what can be
overlooked in such criticisms is an array of sociological and
existential dynamics that are at play when authenticity is striven
for. Likewise able to be overlooked is where the location of that
authenticity is ostensibly founded; sometimes the trueness of the
behaviour is located in local traditions that reach back into time
immemorial, sometimes in a universal human and shared sameness, and
sometimes with regard to a global phenomenon. Punks, Monks and
Politics explores the idea of authenticity as enacted in Thailand,
Indonesia and Malaysia. The collective contributions reveal the
sometimes contradictory ways in which the dynamics of authenticity
- its pursuit, its deployment, its politics - play out in very
different contexts. Whether authenticity inheres in the local or
the global, amongst the majority or within a subculture, on the
outside of or within people, or in the past or the present,
authenticity is nevertheless valued.
Globalization can sometimes seem like an abstract concept, an
unconscious aspect of our everyday existence. What impact does it
have on the reality of our daily lives? How does it shape our
experiences, perspectives and identities? Narratives of
Globalization explores how a range of key ideas in the study of
globalization are made manifest in the lives of people all over the
world. Each chapter explores a key theme in globalization studies
that is explored through a narrative that draws on the contributors
own personal experience. It draws together a collection of
experiences from across the globe including Chinese migration to
Australia, the influence of the internet on education and the
popularity of K-pop. These personal perspectives on culture,
identity, development and politics attempt to better understand
contemporary issues within the global frame and illustrate how
ordinary people can engage with and influence processes of
globalization.
This book provides a picture of a globalized Malaysia where its
conventionally-conceived multi-ethnic composition of Malays,
Chinese, Indians and Others rub shoulders with or interact more
intimately on a daily basis with transnational ethnoscapes of
migrant workers, asylum seekers, international students, and
foreign spouses. It asks how, as Malaysians become wedded to their
citizenship, they extend the same awareness of rights and claims to
non-citizens such as African international students, the Indonesian
maids who look after their children, and the Chins and stateless
Rohingyas who populate the landscape as refugees and undocumented
workers. What are the possibilities of forming cosmopolitan
solidarities with non-Malaysians? And what are the newcomers'
strategies for place-making and belonging? And to bring the
discussions of citizenship in Malaysia into relief, it is also
asked how Malaysians abroad seek to enact and make meaningful their
Malaysian citizenship. A diversity of experiences shapes the
narratives in the chapters: of racialization, rejection,
boundary-making and exclusivity, resilience and adaptation. This
book was published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
This book provides a picture of a globalized Malaysia where its
conventionally-conceived multi-ethnic composition of Malays,
Chinese, Indians and Others rub shoulders with or interact more
intimately on a daily basis with transnational ethnoscapes of
migrant workers, asylum seekers, international students, and
foreign spouses. It asks how, as Malaysians become wedded to their
citizenship, they extend the same awareness of rights and claims to
non-citizens such as African international students, the Indonesian
maids who look after their children, and the Chins and stateless
Rohingyas who populate the landscape as refugees and undocumented
workers. What are the possibilities of forming cosmopolitan
solidarities with non-Malaysians? And what are the newcomers'
strategies for place-making and belonging? And to bring the
discussions of citizenship in Malaysia into relief, it is also
asked how Malaysians abroad seek to enact and make meaningful their
Malaysian citizenship. A diversity of experiences shapes the
narratives in the chapters: of racialization, rejection,
boundary-making and exclusivity, resilience and adaptation. This
book was published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
Authenticity is much sought after; being described as inauthentic
is an insult or an embarrassment. Being authentic suggests that a
given behaviour or performance is reflective of a 'trueness' or
'genuineness' to one's identity. From a social science perspective
there is sometimes scepticism expressed about the historical
faithfulness of purported behaviours - such as when something is
referred to as an 'invented' tradition. However, what can be
overlooked in such criticisms is an array of sociological and
existential dynamics that are at play when authenticity is striven
for. Likewise able to be overlooked is where the location of that
authenticity is ostensibly founded; sometimes the trueness of the
behaviour is located in local traditions that reach back into time
immemorial, sometimes in a universal human and shared sameness, and
sometimes with regard to a global phenomenon. Punks, Monks and
Politics explores the idea of authenticity as enacted in Thailand,
Indonesia and Malaysia. The collective contributions reveal the
sometimes contradictory ways in which the dynamics of authenticity
- its pursuit, its deployment, its politics - play out in very
different contexts. Whether authenticity inheres in the local or
the global, amongst the majority or within a subculture, on the
outside of or within people, or in the past or the present,
authenticity is nevertheless valued.
This volume engages with the work of E. Douglas Lewis, who has made
major contributions to the understanding of Eastern Indonesia,
ethnography, culture, and religion, as well as a neurobiologically
informed anthropology. Lewis' work on the Ata Tana 'Ai (People of
the Forest) of Flores has long been regarded as a seminal work on
culture and society in Eastern Indonesia. His 'precedence theory'
became highly influential among anthropologists in their
interpretations of other social groups in the region. In this
volume, however, a group of scholars influenced by his work
undertake diverse and thought-provoking excursions from Lewis'
work, shedding light on his insights on subjects ranging from
Eastern Indonesian ethnography, to theorizing culture change, to
development, and to the nascent field of 'neuroanthropology'. Of
particular note, this book also features an extended contribution
by Lewis that is, as Professor James J. Fox notes in this book's
foreword, 'the kind of serious contemplation of an intellectual
trajectory that every senior anthropologist should be urged to
write'.
This book explores how globalization and ubiquity of digital
technology combine to create specific global impacts, challenges
and opportunities. Although globalization is already associated
with the speeding up of interactions and change, digital
globalization is characterized by immediacy. The utter
pervasiveness opens new global vulnerabilities at international,
national, social and personal levels. The Digital Global
Condition examines the nature of digital globalization,
enabling us to not only inhabit a digital world, but also to
understand it, even to live well in it.
"Policing Sexuality" explores the regulation of sexual behavior and
identity by nation states, and will question how and why states
have sought to influence and control the sexuality of their
citizens. This unique book simultaneously introduces the topic and
argues for interpretation of state policing of sexuality. The
author presents both theoretical and ethnographic literature,
distilling common themes and causes and presenting factors that
contribute towards a state's desire to control both the sexual
behavior and sexual identity of its citizens, such as the influence
of colonialism, class, religion, and national identity. This book
features five crucial case studies from India, Britain, the USA,
Malaysia, and Turkey. "Policing Sexuality" illuminates this
fascinating study with comparative accounts.
"Policing Sexuality" explores the regulation of sexual behavior and
identity by nation states, and will question how and why states
have sought to influence and control the sexuality of their
citizens. This unique book simultaneously introduces the topic and
argues for interpretation of state policing of sexuality. The
author presents both theoretical and ethnographic literature,
distilling common themes and causes and presenting factors that
contribute towards a state's desire to control both the sexual
behavior and sexual identity of its citizens, such as the influence
of colonialism, class, religion, and national identity. This book
features five crucial case studies from India, Britain, the USA,
Malaysia, and Turkey. "Policing Sexuality" illuminates this
fascinating study with comparative accounts.
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