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 …

Accepting the challenge of rethinking connections of food, space and identity within
everyday spaces of “public” eating in Malaysia and Singapore, the authors enter street stalls …

The idea of peace and violence has been explored by Malaysian visual artists in various
ways. These works are mainly based on contemporary styles when it comes to form, and …

Little is known about the background of atheism in Malaysia and how Muslims respond to
the phenomenon, although provocations by Malaysian atheists often take place on social …

Contemporary Singapore is simultaneously a small postcolonial multicultural nation state
and a cosmopolitan global city. To manage fundamental contradictions, the state takes the …

Global City Futures offers a queer analysis of urban and national development in Singapore,
the Southeast Asian city-state commonly cast as a leading “global city.” Much discourse on …

This paper discusses how ideas of “race” and racial identification have, in different ways,
been central in the construction of modern nation-states, both in East Asia and in …

After the brutal killing of George Floyd sparked antiracism protests worldwide, Black youth
organized protests in West Papua, Indonesia's marginalized and easternmost region. In …

While many books have probed the role of Islam in political and social change in Southeast
Asia over the past three decades, few have focused on the power of the religious discourse …

What do measures of management during this exceptional and volatile time tell us about the
regulation of migrant‐driven diversity and its implications in the arrival city? Using the term …