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Identity politics and elections in Malaysia and Indonesia : ethnic engineering in Borneo

"In recent social research, ethnicity has mostly been used as an explanatory variable. It was only after it was agreed that ethnicity, in itself, is subject to change, were the questions of how and why it changes, possible to answer. This multiplicity of ethnic identities requires that we think...

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Main Author: Prasad, Karolina (Author)
Language:English
Published: London New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Series:Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ;; 105
Subjects:
Identity politics -- > Indonesia -- > Kalimantan Barat
Elections -- > Malaysia -- > Sarawak
Elections -- > Indonesia -- > Kalimantan Barat
Identity politics -- > Malaysia -- > Sarawak
Sarawak (Malaysia) -- > Ethnic relations -- > Political aspects
Kalimantan Barat (Indonesia) -- > Ethnic relations -- > Political aspects
Table of Contents:
  • Theories, institutions and ethnicity
  • Sarawak, institutional and historical overview
  • Ethnic identity change in a consociational polity
  • Institutional and historical overview
  • Identity activation in the new institutional setting
  • Sarawak and West Kalimantan, a comparison.

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