Contesting Malaysia's integration into the world economy/ editors Rajah Rasiah, Azirah Hashim, Jatswan S. Sidhu
Material type: TextPublication details: Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021Description: xix, 268 pages: illustrations; 22 cmISBN:- 9789811606496 (hbk.)
- 959.5 RAJ
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book brings together a set of incisive essays that interrogate Malaysian history and social relations which began during pre-colonial times, and extended to colonial and post-colonial Malaysia. It addresses economic misinterpretations of the role of markets in the way colonial industrialisation evolved, the nature of exploitation of workers, and the participation of local actors in shaping a wide range of socioeconomic and political processes. In doing so, it takes the lead from the innovative historian, Shaharil Talib Robert who argued that the recrafting of history should go beyond the use of conventional methodologies and analytic techniques. It is in that tradition that the chapters offer a semblance of causality, contingency, contradictions, and connections. With that, the analysis in each chapter utilises approaches appropriate for the topics chosen, which include history, anthropology, sociology, economics, politics, and international relations.
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