A Silent Revolution in Malaysia: New Politics of Resistance in a Global Capitalist Age

Goh Beng Lan

doi:10.24987/SNUACAR.2018.02.7.2.E.205

A Silent Revolution in Malaysia: New Politics of Resistance in a Global Capitalist Age

Asia Review
Abbr : SNUACAR
2018, 7(2), pp.205~228
DOI : 10.24987/SNUACAR.2018.02.7.2.E.205
Publisher : 아시아연구소
Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
Received : November 28, 2016
Accepted : February 6, 2018

Goh Beng Lan ¹

¹National University of Singapore

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This paper explores the future of radical politics in a bifurcated Malaysian society whereby Islamization has paralysed resistance. It argues that in an incapacitated public sphere, resistance has to find new spaces and strategies. Drawing on theoretical innovations from inter-Asia 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 that reconfigures ethical traditions long in circulation in the (Southeast) Asian region as bearing promise for a renewal of radical politics. That this is so is due to their ability to recover transcultural and convivial pasts and render back a capacity for critical interrogation of hegemonic impositions on self and community. Such quiet practices show that radical politics has to begin with mindful self-transformations and that materiality, bodily experiences and performances are powerful vessels for the renewal of political consciousness and action.

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Radical politics, Inter-Asia studies, Malaysian politics, arts and politics I. Introduction

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