Ethnicity, class, culture or identity? competing paradigms in Malaysian studies
`Malaysian studies' as a field of social scientific study has its roots in `colonial knowledge' which in turn has had European social theory and classificatory schema as its epistemological basis. Hence social analysis of Malaysian society; be it based on the `ethnicity' or `class...
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| description | `Malaysian studies' as a field of social scientific study has its roots in `colonial knowledge' which in turn has had European social theory and classificatory schema as its epistemological basis. Hence social analysis of Malaysian society; be it based on the `ethnicity' or `class' or `culture' or `identity' paradigm, has been framed in the same epistemological framework. This essay discusses critically the origin of each of the said paradigms, especially its development from the sphere of `public advocacy' to the realm of `academic analyses', in a historical and longitudinal perspectie from the colonial era to the contemporary period, and in due process highlights not only the co-existence and competing nature of these paradigms but also the major contributors and their contributons within each paradigm. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:41562012-05-23T04:53:22Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4156/ Ethnicity, class, culture or identity? competing paradigms in Malaysian studies Shamsul A.B., `Malaysian studies' as a field of social scientific study has its roots in `colonial knowledge' which in turn has had European social theory and classificatory schema as its epistemological basis. Hence social analysis of Malaysian society; be it based on the `ethnicity' or `class' or `culture' or `identity' paradigm, has been framed in the same epistemological framework. This essay discusses critically the origin of each of the said paradigms, especially its development from the sphere of `public advocacy' to the realm of `academic analyses', in a historical and longitudinal perspectie from the colonial era to the contemporary period, and in due process highlights not only the co-existence and competing nature of these paradigms but also the major contributors and their contributons within each paradigm. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 1998-07 Article PeerReviewed Shamsul A.B., (1998) Ethnicity, class, culture or identity? competing paradigms in Malaysian studies. AKADEMIKA, 53 . pp. 33-59. ISSN 0126-5008 http://pkukmweb.ukm.my/penerbit/jdem53-3.htm |
| spellingShingle | Shamsul A.B., Ethnicity, class, culture or identity? competing paradigms in Malaysian studies |
| title | Ethnicity, class, culture or identity? competing paradigms in Malaysian studies |
| title_full | Ethnicity, class, culture or identity? competing paradigms in Malaysian studies |
| title_fullStr | Ethnicity, class, culture or identity? competing paradigms in Malaysian studies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ethnicity, class, culture or identity? competing paradigms in Malaysian studies |
| title_short | Ethnicity, class, culture or identity? competing paradigms in Malaysian studies |
| title_sort | ethnicity, class, culture or identity? competing paradigms in malaysian studies |
| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4156/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4156/ |