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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Southeast Asian studies"”.
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“Others” (Lain-lain): Falling Between Racial Categories in Contemporary Malaysia
… broader scholarship on semiotic anthropology, Southeast Asian studies, as well as race and racialization. Throughout this thesis, I endeavor to explore the everyday assumptions about racial kindedness that individuals make propositionally explicit through discourse about race in contemporary …
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The development of Brunei during the British residential era, 1906-1959 : a sultanate regenerated
The revival of Brunei after centuries of seemingly-irreversible decline, dates from January 1906, when Mr MSH McArthur assumed office as the first British Resident in the Sultanate. In this study it will be shown hoer a moribund, bankrupt and isolated backwater, troubled by internal disaffection …
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Rakyat Malaysia : contesting nationalism and exceptional multiculturalism
… conversations in English Literary and Cultural Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, and Cultural Studies. The first chapter of “Rakyat Malaysia” maps how Indigenous activism – encompassing lawsuits, public protests, and community initiatives – is contesting the rhetoric and policies of exceptional …
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Batik cloths from Jambi, Sumatra
… notional boundaries of South-East Asia. Previous studies of Indonesian batik have tended to apply Javanese models to all of Indonesia. Indonesia was viewed with Java as the centre and the other regions as satellites to it: a Java-centric model which has marginalised batiks from Jambi.Finally, I …
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Illustrating Islam: Comics as Dakwah and the Negotiation of Muslim Identity in Indonesia
This dissertation investigates how print and digital comics communicate Islamic values and address issues of religious intolerance and violence in Indonesia, particularly in the context of the country’s social and political transformations following the fall of the Suharto government in 1998. The …
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Telekom Malaysia : privatisation and strategic management
This thesis is concerned with an evaluation of decisions and practices of the government of Malaysia and top management of Telekom Malaysia (TM) in the preparation for and after privatisation of the entity.The thesis shows that in reality the Malaysian government has pursued policies contrary to …
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BALIK-ISLAM IN THE PHILIPPINES: REVERSION, SYMBOLIC NEGOTIATION, AND BECOMING THE OTHER
… of the fastest growing religious phenomena in Southeast Asia, Balik-Islam, which means “reverts to Islam,” or the process of “returning to Islam.” The Balik-Islam movement has become popular since the 1970s, and its religious narratives on Muslim reversion challenge and complicate what we …
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HOW TO TRY TO MASK COLONIALISM AND FAIL ANYWAY: AMERICAN PROPAGANDA IN NON-COMMUNIST ASIA DURING THE EARLY COLD WAR
… intentions and activities in East and Southeast Asia through a rhetoric of anticommunism, intra-regionalism, and modernization.
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On the Move across Phnom Dangrek: Mobilities and Silences in the Thai-Cambodian Borderland
… sites in order to reflect the way I approach the studies of cross-border mobility and silence that impacted by warfare namely Chapter 1 Phnom Dangrek border landscape; Chapter 2 Thailand and the Cambodian civil war; Chapter 3 Border camps and its post-war land use changes; Chapter 4 Thailand’s …
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Under the Radar: The Everyday Resistance of Anarchist Punks in Bandung, Indonesia
<p>Amidst a current resurgence of hypernationalism across the globe, resistance movements and counterhegemonic ideologies are becoming increasingly visible and more common elements of broader socio-political discourses. While high-profile protests have ignited public interest in resistance …