1st Edition

Identity Politics and Elections in Malaysia and Indonesia Ethnic Engineering in Borneo

By Karolina Prasad Copyright 2016
234 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In recent social research, ethnicity has mostly been used as an explanatory variable. It was only after it was agreed that ethnicity, in itself, is subject to change, were the questions of how and why it changes, possible to answer. This multiplicity of ethnic identities requires that we think of each society as one with multiple ethnic dimensions, of which any can become activated in the process... Read more

1. Theories, Institutions and Ethnicity 2. Sarawak: Institutional and Historical Overview 3. Ethnic Identity Change in a Consociational Polity 4. Institutional and Historical Overview 5. Identity Activation in the New Institutional Setting 6: Sarawak and West Kalimantan: A Comparison

Biography

Karolina Prasad gained a PhD from Hamburg University, Germany, in 2013, after carrying out extensive research in Borneo. She also graduated with an M.A. in Political Science from Warsaw University, Poland, in 2006.