Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
About the Book Series
The Routledge Malaysian Studies Series publishes high quality scholarship that provides important new contributions to knowledge on Malaysia. It also signals research that spans comparative studies, involving the Malaysian experience with that of other nations, particularly with Singapore and Brunei.
This series was first established by the Malaysian Social Science Association (MSSA) to promote study of contemporary and historical issues in Malaysia and is now affiliated with the Association for Asian Studies (AAS)’s Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Studies (MSB) Group. It is designed to respond to the growing need to publish important research and covers a broad range of subjects including history, politics, economics, sociology, gender, sexuality, international relations, geography, business, education, religion, literature, culture and ethnicity. The series encourages work adopting an interdisciplinary approach and also serves as a forum for debate on key issues in the societies of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. It welcomes comparative studies between these three Southeast Asian nations and other countries and regions.
New proposals for the series are welcomed. Prospective authors should in the first instance contact the series editors Patricia Sloane-White ([email protected]) and E. Terence Gomez ([email protected]) or the Routledge editor Dorothea Schaefter ([email protected]).
Malaysia's 14th General Election and UMNO’s Fall: Intra-Elite Feuding in the Pursuit of Power
1st Edition
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By Edmund Terence Gomez, Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman
October 08, 2019
The 2018 Malaysian General Election will stand as a major defining event in Malaysian history, when the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition unexpectedly lost power in the country they had ruled for over half a century. This volume brings together scholars who assess one fundamental factor that ...
Cosmopolitan Asia: Littoral Epistemologies of the Global South
1st Edition
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By Sharmani Gabriel, Fernando Rosa
January 12, 2018
One key concept in the large body of scholarship concerned with theorizing social relations is the idea of 'cosmopolitanism'. This book unpacks the idea of cosmopolitanism through the linked knowledges of the Global South. It brings into dialogue an inter-disciplinary team of local and ...
The Haze Problem in Southeast Asia: Palm Oil and Patronage
1st Edition
By Helena Varkkey
January 03, 2018
Despite the efforts of Southeast Asian governments and of ASEAN, transboundary haze continues to be a major environmental problem in Southeast Asia. This book demonstrates that the issue is complex, and explains why efforts to solve the problem in purely political terms are ineffective, and likely ...
Government-Linked Companies and Sustainable, Equitable Development
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By Terence Gomez, François Bafoil, Kee-Cheok Cheong
October 12, 2017
The debate over how far governments should intervene in economies in order to promote economic growth, a debate which from the 1980s seemed settled in favour of the neo-liberal, non-interventionist consensus, has taken on new vigour since the financial crisis of 2008 and after. Some countries, most...
Affirmative Action, Ethnicity and Conflict
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By Edmund Terence Gomez, Ralph Premdas
August 26, 2016
In recent years a number of countries have introduced affirmative action programmes in order to put right historical injustices and economic inequalities involving ethnic communities. This book examines affirmative action programmes in a range of countries around the world. It discusses how such ...
The Other Kuala Lumpur: Living in the Shadows of a Globalising Southeast Asian City
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By Yeoh Seng Guan
July 27, 2016
Kuala Lumpur, like many Southeast Asian cities, has changed very significantly in the last two or three decades – expanding its size, and 'modernising' and 'globalising' its built environment. For many people these changes represent 'progress' and 'development'. This book, however, focuses on the ...
Malaysia and the Developing World: The Asian Tiger on the Cinnamon Road
1st Edition
By Jan Stark
July 03, 2014
As Malaysia’s economy grows and flourishes, strong new links are being forged with other developing countries in the region and beyond. This book traces the ways in which age-old organizational, political, religious and trade networks between Nusantara, the Malay World, and Central Asia, East ...
Ethnicization and Identity Construction in Malaysia
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By Frederik Holst
February 14, 2014
This book is the first monograph to provide an in-depth and multifaceted study of the processes of ethnicization and identity construction in Malaysia, from the colonial period until the present. In his analysis, the author takes multiple layers of ethnicization into account and shows how these ...
Governments and Markets in East Asia: The Politics of Economic Crises
1st Edition
By Jungug Choi
January 16, 2014
Governments and Markets in East Asia examines the relationship between economic performance, elite co-operation, and political regime stability in the context of the Asian crisis, and argues that economic crisis is not the cause of greater political harmony or discord, but rather that it ...
Malaysia's Development Challenges: Graduating from the Middle
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By Hal Hill, Tham Siew Yean, Ragayah Haji Mat Zin
April 30, 2012
This book examines the various economic, political and developmental policy challenges that Malaysia faces in her shift from a middle income to high-income economy. This issue is of great interest to academics, policy makers and development practitioners in the developing world, particularly in ...
Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia
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By Johan Saravanamuttu
April 10, 2012
Southeast Asia manifests some of the most interesting, non-violent as well as conflictual elements of Islamic social and political life in the world. This book examines the ways in which Muslim politics in Southeast Asia has greatly impacted democratic practice and contributed to its practical and ...
Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore
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By Daniel P. S. Goh, Matilda Gabrielpillai, Philip Holden, Gaik Cheng Khoo
March 28, 2012
This book explores race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore from a range of different disciplinary perspectives, showing how race and multiculturalism are represented, how multiculturalism works out in practice, and how attitudes towards race and multiculturalism – and multicultural ...