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The article asks: how the Internet contributes and enhances the struggles and development of civil society in Malaysia? It argues that the social conditions of restriction and suppression provoke the use of Internet as a mean of social action. Virtual space is providing new forms of political participation that feel fulfilling, effective and connected. In the virtual world we have another kind of discourse which is decentralized in its nature and totally different from the real world.  Publication: 4th International Malaysian Studies Conference; 3-5 August 2004, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi.  Author: Tan, Lee Onloi.  [Download]
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In fact, for a country without an ideology, the depth to which daily life in Malaysia has been politicised is dumbfounding – until one remembers that the issue of Malay rights, accompanied by a steady process of Islamisation, could not but have over the decades configured all major decision-making processes. It is therefore all the more amazing that the current administration under Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi, heir to this veritable tradition of sophisticated statecraft, should be handling the present spate of public demonstrations in the capital of Kuala Lumpur in such a clumsy manner.  Publication: Opinion Asia, 14 Dec 2007.  Author:  Ooi, Kee Beng.  [Download]
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The article discusses the novel "The Crocodile Fury," by Beth Yahp. The novel has won the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Sheaffer Pen Prize for First Fiction in 1993, and the New South Wales State Literary Awards. The author argues that there appears to be distinct echoes of occidental myths and metaphors that shape the discursive space of the novel, echoes that suggest the tinge of colonial stereotypes of Malaya. Yahp highlights in the novel the sense of a disconnectedness from ancestral heritage, a part of that being Malaysia. [Download]

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The charging of Lena Hendry in September 2013 by the Malaysia government is seen as an effort to limit access to information and alternative views particularly those highlighting human rights violations and alternative perspectives. This violates individual, civil society and public rights to information, opinion and expression.

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The purpose of this article is to understand how a corporate museum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia works to create proleptic myths of nationhood to under-gird a broader state-centric project of nationalist-capitalist modernization. The article examines how these myths are expressed in the museum's design plans and are manifested in the museum's displays and spatial layout. From this analysis it becomes apparent that, first, the museum's designers intend for Malaysian museum-goers to both learn and embody particular myths of national modernization. Second, the museum's displays are dedicated to establishing a Malay-centric origin narrative for the contemporary nation-state. Third, as one moves through the museum, Malay-centrism gives way to narratives of a 'multi-racial' society that link technological modernization with social progress. [Download]

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