Title: Other Malays : nationalism and cosmopolitanism in the modern Malay world /
Authors: Kahn, Joel S.; Asian Studies Association of Australia
Publisher: Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with University Of Hawaii Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Social change Malaysia.; Malaysia Economic conditions; Malaysia Social conditions; Malaysia Politics and government; Malaysia Rural conditions.
Abstract: "This new reading of constructions of ethnicity in Malaysia and Singapore is an important contribution to understanding the powerful linkages between ethnicity, religious reform, identity and nationalism in multi-ethnic Southeast Asia."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Making race and place in colonial Singapore -- Commerce, migration, and settlement : making the modern Malay world -- In search of other narratives : diaspora, Islam, reform -- Popularising nationalism -- Race, nation, and the spatial order of modernity -- Universalism, hybridity, cosmopolitanism.