1st Edition

Politics in Malaysia The Malay Dimension

Edited By Edmund Terence Gomez Copyright 2007
170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Examining some of the most critical issues in Malaysian politics today, including human rights, law and democracy, gender and Islam, this book explores the contours of the contemporary landscape of Malaysian politics, focusing especially on politics among the majority ethnic Malay community. In particular, the book explains why changes in patterns of political mobilization and the rhetoric of... Read more

1. Legal Coercion, Legal Meanings and UMNO’s Legitimacy  2. Globalisation, State and G/local Human Rights Actors: Contestations between Institutions and Civil Society  3. Gender Discourse in Malay Politics: Old Wine in New Bottle?  4. PAS Politics: Defining an Islamic State  5. Voting for Change?: Islam and Personalised Politics in the 2004 General Elections

Biography

Edmund Terence Gomez is Research Coordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). He also holds the post of Associate Professor at the Department of Administrative Studies & Politics, Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.