Being Malaysia
An impressive, insightful effort. In it, Steven writes about his reflections over the years as an MP on the issues of ideology b, religion, race relations, identity politics, the economy and good governance. He shares his thoughts freely, even encouraging us to imagine the possibilities democracy wi...
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George Town, Penang
Penang Institute
2018
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Table of Contents:
- The Joker in our very own Gotham City
- What is ideology?
- Ideology and identity politics in Malaysia
- The development of Malay identity politics and UMNO's assurance-threat cycle
- Ideology, Islam and race
- Bread, butter and kangkung
- Ketuanan Melayu and the capitalist mode of economy
- Malaysian Chinese identity and nationalism
- Our imagination is too weak
- Between nationality and race
- Finding common ground
- We need a national conversation
- Something changed when we took part
- Thinking through politics
- Radical imagination: going all the way
- The disavowal
- The Tanjung Bungah construction site landslide tragedy
- "This is not the year for protest vote"
- Water politics
- Political correctness
- We need intolerance, not tolerance
- Selfie politics
- The bluffing interprefer of the interprefer of bluff?
- Perhaps we need superheroes after all
- Boring politics and government of small things