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ID110042
Title ProperSacred cows and crashing boars
Other Title Informationethno-religious minorities and the politics of online representation in Malaysia
LanguageENG
AuthorLeong, Susan
Publication2012.
Summary / Abstract (Note)Starting with the incident now known as the cow's head protest, this article traces and unpacks the events, techniques, and conditions surrounding the representation of ethno-religious minorities in Malaysia. The author suggests that the Malaysian Indians' struggle to correct the dominant reading of their community as an impoverished and humbled underclass is a disruption of the dominant cultural order in Malaysia. The struggle is also among the key events to have set in motion a set of dynamics-the visual turn-introduced by new media into the politics of ethno-communal representation in Malaysia. Believing that this situation requires urgent examination the author attempts to outline the problematics of the task.
`In' analytical NoteCritical Asian Studies Vol. 44, No.1; Mar 2012: p.31-56
Journal SourceCritical Asian Studies Vol. 44, No.1; Mar 2012: p.31-56
Key WordsMalaysia ;  Ethno - Religious Minorities ;  Ethno - Communal Representation ;  Politics ;  Indian