Malaysia

“To become good and dynamic, political science must be broadened and cooperate with, among others, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians”

A system of aged care focused on filial responsibility unduly burdens women. The social protection system needs a bigger role.

At a graveyard beside the Indian Ocean lies insight into Australia’s ongoing multicultural history and heritage

After six decades of federation, it’s time to bring minorities back into the vision of what, and who, the Malaysian national project is about.

Lack of resources and public misperceptions mean that psychological services is a notable gap in Thailand’s health care system.

Economic redistribution should start from giving workers bargaining power long denied to them.

Anwar has a chance to bring stability and reform, but he'll be on a short leash within his coalition and besieged by race-and-religion politics.

The UMNO era is over, but its political economy model and the social conflicts it created still set the terms of the new politics.

On-the-ground studies find enormous variety and behaviour that often confound the conventional categorisations of religious type.

Lacking faith in public and private institutions the Kristang community is taking matters in its own hands.

The opposition leader's new book is a pitch to lead Malaysians as they set out together to repair their social fabric.

There is an urgent need for a reform-oriented speaker to be appointed to combat toxic Malaysian parliamentary proceedings.

Interact with some of the most socially-engaged and topical art produced by contemporary artists both emerging and established from the region

Last week, it became clear that the perception that Najib has huge public support is false.

Professor He draws on a range of case studies in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, and reflects on the wider trend of deliberative democratization in Asia and beyond.

The fact that dirty money needs to be cleaned provides opportunities for law enforcement agencies in ASEAN to collectively monitor drug lords and drug traffickers.

Southeast Asian antisemitism has often bemused scholars and researchers, because it has been described as an antisemitism without Jews.

By intentionally devising concealment strategies that maintain the core messages...research participants demonstrate their commitment to continue producing critical information while avoiding punishment.

APT10 forces us to look past the categories of nation or ethnicity to embrace perspectives in life that are centred on multiplicity and hybridity, on community and friendship.

Sistem hanya mengekalkan mitos bahawa tugas utama tindakan afirmatif adalah menangani kekurangan individu, bukan mengatasi kekurangan sistemik

Reproducing postcolonial subjectivities perpetuates the myth that affirmative action addresses individual deficits rather than systemic disadvantages.

Literary translations between languages becomes a conscious, if not political, effort to let one another be heard within the national context.

Ideas for an autonomous social science tradition have influenced scholars for two generations.

Do local peoples—hunter-gatherer, farmers, and others who are “missing” from historical records—remember in the same way? In subjecting memories to maps, we alter the knowledge...