Nations-in-renewal and the political production of ethnicity: with references to Malaysia

Ooi , Kee Beng (2002) Nations-in-renewal and the political production of ethnicity: with references to Malaysia. SARI: Jurnal Alam dan Tamadun Melayu, 20 . ISSN 0127-2721

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Abstract

This paper argues that ethnicity results from prolonged political cohesive success. All ethnicities can point to a past whether mythological or historical or probably both, when they were politically and culturally influential. They may think of it as a period of unity, but most importantly, it was in fact their discursive genesis. Seen in its contemporary context, nation-building is thus a process within which an ethnic identity reform, if not a new ethnicity, takes place. Primordiality is not a tenable notion. Together with bodily features and discursive habits, landscapes provide a base for group identification. New monuments function therefore as new landscapes inhabited by an emerging ethnicity. Malaysia serves here as the main empirical reference

Item Type:Article
Keywords:Ethnicity; state; nation; homogenization; culturalism; Malayness; acculturalization
Journal:International Journal of the Malay World and Civilisation (Formerly SARI)
ID Code:1715
Deposited By: Ms. Nor Ilya Othman
Deposited On:08 Jun 2011 08:17
Last Modified:08 Jun 2011 08:17

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