Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied, Radicals: Resistance and Protest in Colonial Malaya, Northern Illinois University Press, 2015 Radicals tells the story of a group of radical Malay men and women from ordinary social backgrounds who chose to oppose foreign rule of their homeland, knowing full well that by embarking on this path of resistance, they would …

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Azhar Ibrahim, Contemporary Islamic Discourse in the Malay-Indonesian World: Critical Perspectives, Malaysia: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD), 2014 While many books have probed the role of Islam in political and social change in Southeast Asia over the past three decades, few have focused on the power of the religious discourse itself in shaping …

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Maznah Mohamad and Saskia E. Wieringa (eds.), Family Ambiguity and Domestic Violence in Asia: Concept, Law and Strategy, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2013 Domestic violence in Asia is explored in this analysis through questions of family ambiguity and the relationship between concept, law, and strategy. Comparative experiences in the Asian context enable an examination of …

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Suriani Suratman, Problematic Singapore Malays : Sustaining a Portrayal, Singapore : Leftwrite Center in collaboration with the Reading Group Singapore, 2010 This monograph is about the portrayal of the Malays by the government, as found in the mainstream media. The dominant feature of this portrayal is what the author describes as the ‘problematic Singapore Malays’. …

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