TY  - GEN
AB  - 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.
AU  - Zawawi Ibrahim,
AU  - Richards, Gareth,
AU  - King, Victor T.,
CN  - DS526.7
CY  - Singapore :
DA  - 2021.
DO  - 10.1007/978-981-33-4568-3
DO  - doi
ID  - 1440554
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-33-4568-3
N1  - Includes index.
N2  - 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.
PB  - Springer,
PP  - Singapore :
PY  - 2021.
SN  - 9789813345683
SN  - 9813345683
T1  - Discourses, agency and identity in Malaysia :critical perspectives /
TI  - Discourses, agency and identity in Malaysia :critical perspectives /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-33-4568-3
VL  - v. 13
ER  -