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Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia is one of the first
substantial comparative studies of contemporary Indonesia and
Malaysia, homes to the world's largest Muslim population. Following
the collapse of New Order rule in Indonesia in 1998, this book
provides an in-depth examination of anti-authoritarian forces in
contemporary Indonesia and Malaysia, assessing their problems and
prospects. The authors discuss the roles played by women, public
intellectuals, arts workers, industrial workers as well as
environmental and Islamic activists. They explore how different
forms of authoritarianism in the two countries affect the prospects
of democratization, and examine the impact and legacy of the
diverse social and political protests in Indonesia and Malaysia in
the late 1990s.
Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia is one of the first substantial comparative studies of contemporary Indonesia and Malaysia, homes to the world's largest Muslim population. Following the collapse of New Order rule in Indonesia in 1998, this book provides an in-depth examination of anti-authoritarian forces in contemporary Indonesia and Malaysia, assessing their problems and prospects. The authors discuss the roles played by women, public intellectuals, arts workers, industrial workers as well as environmental and Islamic activists. They explore how different forms of authoritarianism in the two countries affect the prospects of democratization, and examine the impact and legacy of the diverse social and political protests in Indonesia and Malaysia in the late 1990s. eBook available with sample pages: 0203208005
Sumit K. Mandal uncovers the hybridity and transregional
connections underlying modern Asian identities. By considering
Arabs in the Malay world under European rule, Becoming Arab
explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction was altered
by nineteenth-century racial categorisation and control. Mandal
traces the transformation of Arabs from familiar and multi-faceted
creole personages of Malay courts into alienated figures defined by
economic and political function. The racialisation constrained but
did not eliminate the fluid character of Arabness. Creole Arabs
responded to the constraints by initiating transregional links with
the Ottoman Empire and establishing modern social organisations,
schools, and a press. Contentions emerged between organisations
respectively based on Prophetic descent and egalitarianism,
advancing empowering but conflicting representations of a modern
Arab and Islamic identity. Mandal unsettles finite understandings
of race and identity by demonstrating not only the incremental
development of a modern identity, but the contested state of its
birth.
Sumit K. Mandal uncovers the hybridity and transregional
connections underlying modern Asian identities. By considering
Arabs in the Malay world under European rule, Becoming Arab
explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction was altered
by nineteenth-century racial categorisation and control. Mandal
traces the transformation of Arabs from familiar and multi-faceted
creole personages of Malay courts into alienated figures defined by
economic and political function. The racialisation constrained but
did not eliminate the fluid character of Arabness. Creole Arabs
responded to the constraints by initiating transregional links with
the Ottoman Empire and establishing modern social organisations,
schools, and a press. Contentions emerged between organisations
respectively based on Prophetic descent and egalitarianism,
advancing empowering but conflicting representations of a modern
Arab and Islamic identity. Mandal unsettles finite understandings
of race and identity by demonstrating not only the incremental
development of a modern identity, but the contested state of its
birth.
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