In F.Allum and S.Gilmour, Handbook of Organised Crime and Politics, Chapter 26 Edward Elgar 29 March, 2019 This chapter focuses specifically on the relationship between the organisation PEKIDA and its satellites, and the former ruling party UMNO (1957-2018). It...
The Real World? Fabricating Legitimacy in a Semi-Authoritarian State
In S.Lemiere, Illusions of Democracy: Malaysian Politics and People (Europe and Americas Edition), Chapter 5 August 15, 2018 In the social sciences, the role of emotion in politics is not a new axis but is only starting to be taken up as a possibility in the study of...
Gangsta and politics in Malaysia
In S. Lemière, Misplaced Democracy: Malaysian Politics and People, Chapter 5 SIRD, 2014. This chapter is a short exploration of the relationship between political parties, and more specifically UMNO, and gangs through the case study of Pekida. The articulation of this...
Conversion and Controversy: Reshaping the Boundaries of Malaysian Pluralism
In J.Finucane and M.Feener, Proselytizing and the Limits of Religious Platform in Contemporary Asia, Chapter 10, Springer, 05 September 2013 In Malaysia, the political articulation and social perception of religion, more specifically of proselytism and conversion, are...
Cracks in the Mosaic: The rise of Ethno-religious Groups in Malaysia
In "Religious Norms in the Public Sphere" - Ebook Berkeley in 2011 In this talk, I’m going to give a case study on the rise of ethnonationalist groups in Malaysia. In order to understand the origins and challenges of this movement, it is necessary to give a bit of...