A Malaysia of Citizens: Ethnicity, Membership and Politics of Merger

Low, Choo Chin

doi:10.21315/kajh2017.24.2.1

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“…On the home front, the literature is replete with studies on nation building and development in non-linguistic disciplines such as history, philosophy, civilisation, the humanities, arts, social sciences, social policies and political sciences. These studies foreground diverse issues ranging from the state of development in Malaysia (Lee 2004) to the politics of development in Sarawak (Hazis 2009), the preferential bumiputera policy in nation building (Cheah 2003), affirmative actions for Sarawak's bumiputera communities (Berma 2003), enterprise development (Gomez 2003), the Indian identity in Malaysia Kailasam 2015, social capital for development (Farouk & Husin 2015), empowering the humanities for social development (Omar 2011) and the political merger of Singapore with Malaysia (Low 2017).…”

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The Discourse of Nation Building in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Malaysia Info Web Portal News Articles

Teik¹,

Rahim²

2020

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This paper explores the choice of language employed by the Malaysian mainstream media to construct the former Barisan Nasional government's role in nation building in transforming Malaysia from a developing country to a fully developed country by the year 2020 as envisioned by Vision 2020. In particular, this paper focuses on fourteen curated news articles on the GST Malaysia Info web portal set up by the former government to educate the public on the benefits of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to the country and the people by analysing lexical words with experiential values. The data collection, categorisation and analysis entail the use of simple corpus linguistic tools and close reading of the data based on the researchers' interpretative resources or "member's resources" (Fairclough, 2001). The analysis of this study utilising a qualitative approach shows that the people are not only persuaded to 'buy' the idea of the new GST tax regime but also to buy into the ideology and discourse of nation building from the introduction of a more efficient way of tax collection. It uncovers how the manipulation of an educational campaign on the GST into a political discourse of nation building produces a positive portrayal of the government with an efficient economic development plan. Drawing on Fairclough's (1989, 2001, 2015) three-dimensional Critical Discourse Analysis framework with a focus on different values of formal linguistic features, this study offers insights into the interplay between language, politics and nation building.

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The Discourse of Nation Building in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Malaysia Info Web Portal News Articles

Teik¹,

Rahim²

2020

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Borders, Citizenship, ‘Imagined Community’ and ‘Exclusive State’ and Migration in Southeast Asia

Petcharamesree

2023

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Benedict Anderson (1991) suggested ‘a Nation-state is an imagined political community. It is imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign’. Because of this imagination that a nation (-state) is ‘inherently exclusive’. Southeast Asian States seem to imagine their communities as exclusive, with certain categories of people being excluded, especially those who are considered different and those who cross (inter)national borders. This chapter intends to establish some frameworks for the book by unpacking the notion of borders, not only from territorial and geographical perspectives, but also the borders created within cultural, social and economic spheres. Through the concept of citizenship, the paper argues conceptually and empirically that borders created through ‘imagined community’ can easily discriminate against populations who are not considered as members of a political community or not ‘one of us’. Because of this concept, some are excluded from the benefits of membership, while migration has serious implications on citizenship policy, exclusion (from citizenship) exacerbates (forced) migration in the region.

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A Malaysia of Citizens: Ethnicity, Membership and Politics of Merger

Abstract: Abstract. This paper examines the political history of the relationship between

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The Discourse of Nation Building in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Malaysia Info Web Portal News Articles

The Discourse of Nation Building in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Malaysia Info Web Portal News Articles

Borders, Citizenship, ‘Imagined Community’ and ‘Exclusive State’ and Migration in Southeast Asia

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