Edmund Terence Gomez (ed.)

Politics in Malaysia

The Malay Dimension
Herausgeber: Gomez, Edmund Terence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining some of the most critical issues in Malaysian politics today, including human rights, law and democracy, gender and Islam, this book explores the contours of the contemporary landscape of Malaysian politics, focusing especially on politics among the majority ethnic Malay community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780415471664
• ISBN-10: 0415471664
• Artikelnr.: 23605263

Autorenporträt

Edmund Terence Gomez is a Research Coordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). He also holds the post of Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Malaya.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Legal Coercion, Legal Meanings and UMNO's Legitimacy 2. Globalisation,
State and G/local Human Rights Actors: Contestations between Institutions
and Civil Society 3. Gender Discourse in Malay Politics: Old Wine in New
Bottle? 4. PAS Politics: Defining an Islamic State 5. Voting for Change?:
Islam and Personalised Politics in the 2004 General Elections