History & Culture & Politics (GR)

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“As May 13, 1969 has lived on as one of Malaysia’s most iconic moments of political transition and change, it deserves to be told and retold through many lenses and by many interlocutors. How did those palpably touched by the ordeal, and lost friends, neighbours and family members survive the...

“Lim and Hunter’s prolific writings shed light on the resultant effects of macro and micro-policies that have shaped Malaysia. Their analyses touch especially on the key actors—individuals and organizations—that have played a catalytic role in misshaping the nation’s development. Both their opinions and reflections on the issues written here have...

“[W]hen articles are written by astute commentators of the calibre of Hunter and Lim on the historical achievement of Malaysian voters rejecting BN after 61 years of unbroken, continuous rule, and the emergence of the nation’s first alternative governing coalition, they deserve to be collected in a handy publication. After...

These pages contain my childhood recollections of Malaya, observations and musings on my time in legal practice and some thoughts on events in the new millennium. These reminiscences also include several brushes with history, events which shaped Malaysia and set me on my path through life,from my call to the...

From 2 July 2018 until 24 February 2020, I I had the privilege of serving in the first non-Barisan Nasional Cabinet, leading the Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (MESTECC). While we made considerable changes during the 20 months in office and had finished some “business”, there...

This book explores the ethnography of emerging proletarian social consciousness and resistance. By the 1970s Malay peasants on the east coast of peninsular Malaysia found themselves reconstituted as a class, not only as an economic category but also as a community in a capitalist plantation frontier society. The plantation, as...

The Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat, despite the name, is seldom heard. In this brief recollection of his short tenure as the Dewan Rakyat Speaker, Tan Sri Ariff Yusof, reveals his side of the story, by dissecting the events and procedures of Parliament while providing an insider’s view of the...

After the relative drought during the years since Malaysia first took to the vocation of writing verse in English in the nineteen fifties. we now have in this collection of poems by Malaysia millennials signs of coming shower. By their numbers, they show more clearly than before their diversity in...

Kumpulan esei Shaharuddin Maaruf ini merenungi hubung kait antara Tradisi, pemodenan dan perubahan sosial dalam dunia Melayu-Islam Asia Tenggara. Persoalan Tradisi yang sungguh kompleks ini diamati dalam aspek-aspek khusus seperti persoalan kesinambungan sejarah, nilai-nilai, jati diri dan peranan orientasi agama dalam menentukan sifat dan hala tuju perubahan sosial ini. Etos-etos...

Hishamuddin Rais sosok keturunan Sakai suku Biduanda Negeri Sembilan. Lahir di Kampung Tengah Majau Kuala Pilah 1951. Belajar awal di sekolah Melayu di Jelebu ke Sekolah Menengah Undang Jelebu ke Kolej Melayu Kuala Kangsar ke Universiti Malaya ke Universiti Katholik Louvain la Neuve ke Brixton College London ke London Polytechnic...

The Terengganu Stone has generally been accepted as one of the oldest archaeological artifacts for evidence of the arrival of Islam to Malaysia, and Southeast Asia more generally. Since its discovery in 1887 the Terengganu inscription has drawn much interest from scholars of various disciplines. Yet in this volume Emeritus...

Batu Bersurat Terengganu telahpun diterima sebagai salah sebuah artifak tertua yang boleh membuktikan kehadiran Islam di Malaysia dan secara amnya juga di Asia Tenggara. Sejak penemuannya pada tahun 1887 prasasti Terengganu itu telah menarik perhatian kaum sarjana dari berbagai bidang ilmu. Betapapun demikian, dalam buku ini Prof. Emeritus Dr. Ahmat...

Pendidikan ialah rahmat yang menjadikan kita dapat membaca sari buku ini dan buku ini sendiri dapat ditulis. Tanpa pendidikan, keadaan kita hari ini mungkin berbeza. Begitulah dekatnya takdir kita dengan pendidikan. Pendidikan dengan permasalahannya yang rumit dihuraikan dalam beberapa bab buku ini yang tersusun bermula daripada pemegang taruh terpenting dalam...

Stamford Raffles, James Brooke, John Crawfurd and Anna Leonowens were some of those who came from Europe or the United States to Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century — and then wrote about what they saw. Their writings deserve to be read now for what they truly were: Not objective...

Buku ini adalah merupakan versi "paperback" daripada versi asal "coffee table" yang telah diterbitkan pada tahun 2020 sebelum pertukaran kerajaan Pakatan Harapan. Segala cadangan dan rekomendasi yang telah dibuat oleh Jawatankuasa Kerja Reformasi Dewan Negara sehingga terbentuk Kaukus Dewan Negara yang pertama dalam sejarah Dewan Negara yang apabila di bawah...

Jurnal Sang Pemula merupakan satu pertubuhan kecil yang terdiri daripada 12 anak muda dan di bawah pimpinan Dr Azhar Ibrahim. Tanpa dana besar, tanpa tujuan menjana ratusan ringgit, apatah lagi menjadi popular. Tujuan JSP digerakkan cuma satu iaitu berkongsi ide buat masyarakat (khususnya anak muda) kembali mempersoal, mengkritik, memikirkan dan...

. . . The meaning of the phrase “Islam is socialist in nature” merely acts as a categorisation into a particular system of society based on the features that characterise it as socialist. Those who are against Islam being considered as socialist either do not understand the meaning of certain...

" I live in a world where every human right has been denied to me and my people ... But surviving a tragedy is not living. Living means having a purpose, living lives, learning new things, having a career, hopes, and dreams that are not fantasy but can actually have...

A new retelling of the “Million Dollar War” When British colonists first arrived in Malaya, they considered Naning, a small village about 30 miles from Malacca, to be under their jurisdiction. The incumbent penghulu of Naning, Dol Said, resisted, claiming that Naning was an independent sovereign state with its own...