@article{1440554,
      note = {Includes index.},
      author = {Zawawi Ibrahim, and Richards, Gareth, and King, Victor  T.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1440554},
      title = {Discourses, agency and identity in Malaysia : critical  perspectives /},
      publisher = {Springer,},
      abstract = {This book seeks to break new ground, both empirically and  conceptually, in examining discourses of identity formation  and the agency of critical social practices in Malaysia.  Taking an inclusive cultural studies perspective, it  questions the ideological narrative of race and ethnicity  that dominates explanations of conflicts and cleavages in  the Malaysian context. The contributions are organised in  three broad themes. Identities in Contestation: Borders,  Complexities and Hybridities' takes a range of empirical  studies literary translation, religion, gender, ethnicity,  indigeneity and sexual orientation to break down  preconceived notions of fixed identities. This then opens  up an examination of identities and Movements: Agency and  Alternative Discourses in which contributors deal with  counter-hegemonic social movements of antiracism, young  people, environmentalism and independent publishing that  explicitly seek to open up greater critical, democratic  space within the Malaysian polity. The third section,  Identities and Narratives: Culture and Media then provides  a close textual reading of some exemplars of new cultural  and media practices found in personal testimonies, popular  music, film, radio programming and storytelling who have  consciously created bodies of work that question the  dominant national narrative.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4568-3},
      recid = {1440554},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      address = {Singapore :},
      year = {2021},
}