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Finding Malaysia
Some of the most engaging contemporary writing has seen the transformation of the political column into a literary art form – an important way of taking in the world and thinking deeply about it. In his first collection of essays, Zairil Khir Johari offers quick-witted and focused reflections on some of the most pressing and contentious issues of the day. At the heart of the matter is the bane of Malaysian politics – the ethnic question – from which he explores a range of high-profile issues: identity, secularism, federalism, the economy, good governance and education. After sixty years of nationhood, Zairil finds much that is wrong with Malaysia. Its eccentricities are by no means benign. Yet these essays also offer answers to his own assertion that ‘we need to move beyond this.’ At once both philosophical and practical, Finding Malaysia lays down a marker for any serious debate over the future trajectory of the country.
Projek Seram : Lif
Kau Kuseru - Ninie Othman Desakan untuk mencari rumah sewa baru telah membawa Amira, Melissa dan Erin hingga ke bangunan rumah pangsa, Blok Mawar. Dengan bantuan Zairil, mereka bertiga berpindah masuk ke situ. Selepas seminggu tinggal di situ, mereka diuji dengan pelbagai peristiwa pelik sejak hari pertama mereka menyewa di flat itu. Amira sering kali ternampak gadis berpakaian putih yang dikotori darah, Melissa seringkali mencium bau hanyir darah ketika berada di kawasan lif. Erin yang memberi idea supaya mereka mendapatkan jawapan kepada semua kejadian pelik itu menggunakan papan Ouija. Adakah semua persolan terjawab atau apakah musibah yang bakal menanti mereka? Berjayakah mereka hingga k...
Kesumat
Beberapa tahun berlalu sejak hukuman gantung sampai mati ke atas Karim dilaksanakan. Lelaki misteri yang pernah mendatangi pendiri ajaran sesat Kumpulan Panji Hitam itu kini muncul pula kepada Soraya, satu-satunya waris Karim yang masih hidup. Soraya berdepan ujian sihir yang amat hebat oleh sekumpulan bekas orang kanan Karim. Lalu ia dihidupkan semula! Kali ini lebih hebat dan bernafsu besar! Sejak itu, kegelapan mengganas lagi. Ia mara bagaikan api menjilat hutan kering. Dendam, tipu daya, darah dan rawan seolah-olah tidak mampu dibendung. Umpan-umpan ditabur dan pembunuhan demi pembunuhan dilaksanakan. Negara menjadi huru-hara. Mampukah Azlan bertahan dengan ujian yang lebih runcing itu? Dapatkah Azlan dan ulamak-ulamak yang masih tinggal di tanah bertuah ini menghalang kemaraan kegelapan itu? Dapatkah mereka menyelamatkan negara ini dari dikuasai oleh hamba-hamba manusia syaitan itu? Mungkinkah kali ini kebenaran akan ditewaskan oleh kebatilan?
Secularism, Religion, and Democracy in Southeast Asia
Until the 1990s, secularism was understood largely as exclusion of religion from the public domain. However, in the last two decades, the world has witnessed the return of religion as a medium and subject of national, regional, and global politics. With such a shift, the previously unquestioned Western values of modernity and secularism find themselves at loggerheads with the increasing assertion of religious identity, which results in difference-based conflicts. This antagonism also gives rise to a vibrant, religiously pluralistic civil society and speaks of a post-secular turn in modern Southeast Asian democracies. Secularism, Religion, and Democracy in Southeast Asia tries to understand the rise of religion in modern democracies and how everyday economic, social, and political conditions aid this post-secular phenomenon in Southeast Asia. Setting itself apart from most studies of religion in Southeast Asia through its regional focus, this volume explores the ideas, practices, state responses, and anxieties related to the religious–secular divide in this geopolitical region.
Liberal Studies at the Centre for the Promotion of Knowledge and Language Learning Universiti Malaysia Sabah
This book presents a collection of cross-discipline articles that serves to close the documentation gap in liberal arts. It is anticipated that the repertoire of knowledge in this book could benefit students from both public and private institutions, particularly those taking liberal art courses at the Centre for the Promotion of Knowledge and Language Learning (Pusat Penataran Ilmu dan Bahasa – PPIB). This publication offers resources for academicians and researchers from various fields related to liberal arts. Although the articles were based on scientific and academic writing with specific concepts and epistemological thoughts, they also contain global and general knowledge concepts which may be appreciated and considered appropriate for public or general reading.
Young and Malay
INDIVIDUAL experiences, though strongly influenced by collective identities, are in essence unique ones. But in Malaysia, where ethnic identity is overpoweringly applied to constrict popular thought and rationalise government policies, the uniqueness of individuals is ignored and devalued – even by the individuals themselves. Paradoxically, the community that has suffered the political ascription of group identity most acutely and most inescapably is the ascribed majority group, the Malays. In this collection of essays edited by Ooi Kee Beng and Wan Hamidi Hamid, nine young writers – Haris Zuan, Wan Hamidi Hamid, Zairil Khir Johari, Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud, Altaf Deviyati, Izmil Amri, Syuk...
Takkan Kulepaskan
Maria dibesarkan di rumah anak yatim. Demi mencapai cita-citanya, dia nekad mengubah nasib diri dengan bekerja di rumah keluarga bangsawan. Malangnya, dia sentiasa dihina oleh majikannya. Air mata menjadi peneman setia. Namun, dalam diam ketabahannya telah menarik hati seseorang. Tengku Ezairul, lelaki ego yang memandang darjat dan kedudukan. Dia bencikan Maria. Tiada sekelumit rasa belas kasihan tatkala mamanya mendera gadis itu. Namun, cinta tidak mengenal siapa. Dia tidak dapat membohongi hatinya bahawa dia sebenarnya menggilai gadis itu. Tembok keegoannya runtuh dalam sekelip mata. Mampukah dia mempertahankan rasa cinta itu? Kata Maria, cinta mudah untuk diucapkan. Cinta mudah untuk diluahkan. Tapi cinta juga mampu menghancurkan. Dia tidak meminta untuk dicintai, apatah lagi disakiti. Dia wanita biasa yang lemah dalam cinta. Tapi perasaan itu tidak akan terkubur bila hatinya terukir nama lelaki itu.
PERMATA BUDI:KARYA SUMBANGSIH SEMPENA PERSARAAN PROFESSOR DATIN PADUKA DATUK DR. RAMLAH ADAM
Buku ini dihasilkan bagi mengenang dan menghargai jasa dan sumbangan Prof. Datin Paduka Datuk Dr. Hajah Ramlah Adam sebagai seorang pendidik selama lebih empat puluh tahun selain jasa dan peranan beliau dalam kepimpinan akademik yang telah diberikan khususnya kepada Jabatan Sejarah, Universiti Malaya dan negara Malaysia amnya. Sumbangan beliau dalam bidang sejarah terutamanya penulisan mengenai biografi beberapa tokoh penting di Malaysia amat besar maknanya sehingga beliau begitu dikenali oleh ramai sarjana di dalam mahupun luar negara. Beliau juga sering menjadi pakar rujuk dalam hal berkaitan dengan sejarah Malaysia, khususnya mengenai biografi tokoh serta isu-isu yang berkaitan dengannya. Segala ilmu yang terkandung dalam karya-karya beliau telah memperkayakan tradisi keilmuan di tanah air kita. Makalah yang dimuatkan dalam buku ini adalah hasil sumbangan rakan taulan, anak didik beliau dan para sarjana daripada pelbagai disiplin ilmu. Semoga segala ilmu yang terkandung dalam buku ini dapat dimanfaatkan dalam mencorakkan lagi tradisi kegemilangan ilmu di Malaysia.
Policies and Politics in Malaysian Education
This book draws on elements of critical social theory, research on globalization, neo liberalism and education, and Malaysian Studies to understand the interplay of globalization, nationalism, cultural politics and ethnicized neoliberalism in shaping the educational reforms in Malaysia. Using the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025 (MEB) as a case study, a catalyst and a context, this collection critically explores some of the complex historical and contemporary push-pull politics and factors shaping Malaysia’s education system, its reform and the experience of Malaysians – and others – within it. The authors in this volume focus on the interplay of neoliberalism, nationalism, ethni...
The Cultural Legacies of Chinese Schools in Singapore and Malaysia
This edited volume examines the historical development of Chinese-medium schools from the British colonial era to recent decades of divergent development after the 1965 separation of Singapore and Malaysia. Educational institutions have been a crucial state apparatus in shaping the cultural identity and ideology of ethnic Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia. This volume applies various perspectives from education theory to heritage studies in dealing with the cultural legacy and memory of such schools as situated in larger contexts of society. The book offers comprehensive practice-based analysis and reflection about the complex relationships between language acquisition, identity construction...
