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

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...

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Main Author: Ooi , Kee Beng
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Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2002
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spelling my-ukm.journal.17152011-06-08T08:17:51Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1715/ Nations-in-renewal and the political production of ethnicity: with references to Malaysia Ooi , Kee Beng 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 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2002 Article PeerReviewed 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 http://www.ukm.my/sari/index.html
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description 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
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Nations-in-renewal and the political production of ethnicity: with references to Malaysia
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title Nations-in-renewal and the political production of ethnicity: with references to Malaysia
title_short Nations-in-renewal and the political production of ethnicity: with references to Malaysia
title_full Nations-in-renewal and the political production of ethnicity: with references to Malaysia
title_fullStr Nations-in-renewal and the political production of ethnicity: with references to Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Nations-in-renewal and the political production of ethnicity: with references to Malaysia
title_sort nations-in-renewal and the political production of ethnicity: with references to malaysia
publisher Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
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