Silent Resistance in Malaysia: Changing Mindsets as a Form of New Radical Politics (말레이시아의 조용한 혁명: 세계자본주의 시대, 새로운 저항의 정치)

Beng Lan Goh (고벵란)

doi:10.24987/SNUACAR.2017.02.6.2.169

Silent Resistance in Malaysia: Changing Mindsets as a Form of New Radical Politics

Asia Review
Abbr : SNUACAR
2017, 6(2), pp.169~197
DOI : 10.24987/SNUACAR.2017.02.6.2.169
Publisher : 아시아연구소
Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
Received : November 28, 2016
Accepted : February 10, 2017

Beng Lan Goh ¹

¹싱가포르 국립대학교

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This paper explores the future of radical politics in a bifurcated Malaysian society whereby Islamization has paralyzed resistance. It argues that in an incapacitated public sphere, resistance has to find new spaces and strategies. Drawing on theoretical innovations from inter-Asian paradigms and evidence of popular religious and artistic practices in urban Malaysia, it makes a case on silent resistance occurring at subterranean, every day and personal levels. This has led to the process of reconfiguring traditions, long in circulation in the (Southeast) Asian region, as bearing promises for a renewal of mindsets as the new basis for radical politics. That this is so is due to the ability to recover trans-ethnic and cultural and convivial pasts to restore the capacity for critical interrogation of the hegemonic impositions on self and community. Such quiet practices show that radical politics has to begin with mindful self-transformations.

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Islamization, Malaysia, radical politics, inter-Asia paradigms, silent resistance

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