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Routledge Malaysian Studies Series


About the 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.

This series, initiated by the Malaysian Social Science Association (MSSA) to promote study of contemporary and historical issues in Malaysia, and designed to respond to the growing need to publish important research, also serves as a forum for debate on key issues in Malaysian society. As an academic series, it will be used to generate new theoretical debates in the social sciences and on processes of change in this society.

The Series covers a broad range of subjects including history, politics, economics, sociology, international relations, geography, business, education, religion, literature, culture and ethnicity. The series will encourage work adopting an interdisciplinary approach.

New proposals for the series are welcomed.  Prospective authors should in the first instance contact the series editors, whose email addresses are: [email protected][email protected]; and [email protected].

 

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The Aboriginal People of Peninsular Malaysia From the Forest to the Urban Jungle

The Aboriginal People of Peninsular Malaysia: From the Forest to the Urban Jungle

1st Edition

By Govindran Jegatesen
December 05, 2019

To date, most studies of Malaysia’s aboriginal people, the Orang Asli, have studied the community in either the rural or forest settings. This book, however, outlines the dynamics of Orang Asli migration to Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia’s most urbanised region – and explores the lived experiences of ...

Malaysia's 14th General Election and UMNO’s Fall Intra-Elite Feuding in the Pursuit of Power

Malaysia's 14th General Election and UMNO’s Fall: Intra-Elite Feuding in the Pursuit of Power

1st Edition

Edited 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 ...

The Political Economy of Brain Drain and Talent Capture Evidence from Malaysia and Singapore

The Political Economy of Brain Drain and Talent Capture: Evidence from Malaysia and Singapore

1st Edition

Edited By Adam Tyson
October 09, 2018

Brain drain and talent capture are important issues globally, and especially crucial in countries such as Malaysia and Singapore, which aspire to be innovation-driven advanced economies. This book provides a thorough analysis of the impact of brain drain on middle-income Malaysia and high-income ...

Cosmopolitan Asia Littoral Epistemologies of the Global South

Cosmopolitan Asia: Littoral Epistemologies of the Global South

1st Edition

Edited 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

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

Government-Linked Companies and Sustainable, Equitable Development

1st Edition

Edited 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

Affirmative Action, Ethnicity and Conflict

1st Edition

Edited 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

The Other Kuala Lumpur: Living in the Shadows of a Globalising Southeast Asian City

1st Edition

Edited 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

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

Ethnicization and Identity Construction in Malaysia

1st Edition

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

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

Malaysia's Development Challenges: Graduating from the Middle

1st Edition

Edited 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 ...

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