Southeast Asian identities : culture and the politics of representation in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kahn, Joel S. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies , c1998
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Southeast Asian identities: introduction
  • 2. Racial Singaporeans: absence after the Hyphen
  • 3. Disciplining difference: "Race" in Singapore
  • 4. Ethnic identities and erasure: Chinese Indonesians in public culture
  • 5. Globalization and cultural nationalism in modern Thailand
  • 6. Gender and the globalization of Islamic discourses: a case study
  • 7. Modern dreams: an enquiry into power, cityscape transformations and cultural difference in contemporary Malaysia
  • 8. Returning to the "Origin": church and state in the ethnogenesis of the "To Pamona"
  • 9. National difference and global citizenship