Kadir Mohamad just for the record
Author: Kadir Mohamad
Publisher: The Other Press
Published: 2023-06-27
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9670957583
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Malaysia-Singapore: Fifty Years of Contentions 1965-2015
Author: Kadir Mohamad
Publisher: The Other Press
Published: 2015-01-21
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9839541897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers an interesting and informative account of the often fractious account of two countries in the heart of Southeast Asia. It outlines the primary issues that plagued relations between Malaysia and Singapore in the last fifty years and the political, diplomatic and legal initiatives taken to address them. The author gives a first-person narrative of the seemingly endless behind-the-scenes episodes that have brought the love-hate relationship to where they are today. He further delves into the vast reservoir of information on the rocky bilateral relationship to provide a reasonable argument over why Malaysia has behaved as it has since 1965. Exhaustive records of, among others, minutes, letters and documents are brought to light to substantiate the Malaysian view in relation to issues of contention with Singapore. Coming from an insider with more than four eventful decades in the Malaysian Foreign Service, it will be an eye opener for many.
Advances in Visual Informatics
Author: Halimah Badioze Zaman
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-10-19
Total Pages: 677
ISBN-13: 9819973392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Visual Informatics, IVIC 2023, held in Selangor, Malaysia in November 2023. The 51 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The conference focused on 6 tracks: Modeling and Simulation, Mixed Reality and HCI, Systems Integration and IoT, Cybersecurity, Energy Informatics and Intelligent Data Analytics.
A Short History of Malaysia
Author: Virginia Matheson Hooker
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781864489552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive history of Malaysia from ancient past to hyper-modern present day.
Maps of Empire
Author: Kyle Wanberg
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2020-07-09
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1487534957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the political upheavals of the mid-twentieth century, as imperialism was unraveling on a grand scale, writers from colonized and occupied spaces questioned the necessity and ethics of their histories. As empire "wrote back" to the self-ordained centres of the world, modes of representation underwent a transformation. Exploring novels and diverse forms of literature from regions in West Africa, the Middle East, and Indigenous America, Maps of Empire considers how writers struggle with the unstable boundaries generated by colonial projects and their dissolution. The literary spaces covered in the book form imaginary states or reimagine actual cartographies and identities sanctioned under empire. The works examined in Maps of Empire, through their inner representations and their outer histories of reception, inspire and provoke us to reconsider boundaries.
Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia
Author: Garry Rodan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1134308116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book rejects the notion that the 1997-98 Asian economic crisis was further evidence that ultimately capitalism can only develop within liberal social and political institutions.
Constituting Religion
Author: Tamir Moustafa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-07-25
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1108334075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost Muslim-majority countries have legal systems that enshrine both Islam and liberal rights. While not necessarily at odds, these dual commitments nonetheless provide legal and symbolic resources for activists to advance contending visions for their states and societies. Using the case study of Malaysia, Constituting Religion examines how these legal arrangements enable litigation and feed the construction of a 'rights-versus-rites binary' in law, politics, and the popular imagination. By drawing on extensive primary source material and tracing controversial cases from the court of law to the court of public opinion, this study theorizes the 'judicialization of religion' and the radiating effects of courts on popular legal and religious consciousness. The book documents how legal institutions catalyze ideological struggles, which stand to redefine the nation and its politics. Probing the links between legal pluralism, social movements, secularism, and political Islamism, Constituting Religion sheds new light on the confluence of law, religion, politics, and society. This title is also available as Open Access.
Seasonality, Rural Livelihoods and Development
Author: Stephen Devereux
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-07-03
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1136494405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeasonality is a severe constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods and a driver of poverty and hunger, particularly in the tropics. Many poor people in developing countries are ill equipped to cope with seasonal variations which can lead to drought or flood and consequences for agriculture, employment, food supply and the spread of disease. The subject has assumed increasing importance as climate change and other forms of development disrupt established seasonal patterns and variations. This book is the first systematic study of seasonality for over twenty years, and it aims to revive academic interest and policy awareness of this crucial but neglected issue. Thematic chapters explore recent shifts with profound implications for seasonality, including climate change, HIV/AIDS, and social protection. Case study chapters explore seasonal dimensions of livelihoods in Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi), Asia (Bangladesh, China, India), and Latin America (Peru). Others assess policy responses to adverse seasonality, for example through irrigation, migration and seasonally-sensitive education. The book also includes innovative tools for monitoring seasonality, which should enable more appropriate responses.
A Doctor in the House
Author: Mahathir bin Mohamad
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 900
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthoritarian Populism in Malaysia
Author: A. Munro-Kua
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1996-11-13
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0230379915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocio-economic and political issues are dealt with selectively within a chronological historical framework, covering the dramatic colonial impact of 1940-60 until the present day. The state is examined from the point of view of social class as well as communalism, to explain the dominance of the ruling coalition over the 37 years since independence. The author argues that authoritarian-populism is the concept that best fits the apparent paradox of an enduring regime via the ballot box, and the extensive restrictions on the scope of democracy, particularly through the repressive apparatus of detention without trial. The underlying theme is a critique and explanation of Malaysia's human rights record.
