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		<title>De-Essentialising Violence in Indonesia: John Sidel&#8217;s &#8216;Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[De-Essentialising Violence in Indonesia
John Sidel, Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia
Cornell University Press,  Ithaca and London, 2006
279 pgs. Paperback
Explaining communal, ethnic and religious violence via recourse to  essentialised understandings of ethnic identity and cultural difference  is about as silly and illogical as trying to explain corruption in terms  of genetic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/06/10/de-essentialising-violence-in-indonesia-john-sidels-riots-pogroms-jihad-religious-violence-in-indonesia/</link>
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		<title>Mid-Term Essay Question for Students of IR6901: Simpsons or South Park? Take your pick :)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mid-Term Essay Question for Students of IR6901: An introduction to  Discourse Analysis.
Taking into account all that we have covered thus far, and in particular  with reference to the late Wittgensteinian theory of language-games;  Saussure’s fundamental principles of Linguistics and the discussion of  religio-political discourses in Laclau/Mouffe and Bobby Sayyid, here is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/04/27/mid-term-essay-question-for-students-of-ir6901-simpsons-or-south-park-take-your-pick/</link>
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		<title>Being Muslims and More Besides: Muslim Identities as Complex and Cosmopolitan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(*Note: I was invited to write a think-piece for an upcoming project and  I thought I&#8217;d share it with anyone interested)
The past decade has witnessed a period of intense speculation on the  subject of Muslim subjectivity; often prompted by reasons that have less  to do with academic concerns and more with politics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/04/21/being-muslims-and-more-besides-muslim-identities-as-complex-and-cosmopolitan/</link>
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		<title>Post lecture notes for students of IR 6901: (Week 7, part 2) Introduction to Discourse Analysis, with a special reference to religio-political discourse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Laclau and Mouffe: The A, B, C of Discourse Analysis
Now as we discussed in class yesterday, for our purposes we need not be  overly concerned with the politics of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe  in their Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (1985) but rather more  concerned about the theoretical schema as it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/04/21/post-lecture-notes-for-students-of-ir-6901-week-7-part-2-introduction-to-discourse-analysis-with-a-special-reference-to-religio-political-discourse/</link>
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		<title>Post lecture notes for students of IR 6901: (Week 7) Introduction to Discourse Analysis, with a special reference to religio-political discourse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Laclau and Mouffe: Discourse Analysis and the realities of shifting  politics
I. Explaining the context of Laclau and Mouffe’s Hegemony and  Socialist Strategy: Shifting social dynamics and the demise of  traditional class-based politics.
Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s Hegemony and Socialist Strategy:  Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (1985) was written at a time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/04/21/post-lecture-notes-for-students-of-ir-6901-week-7-introduction-to-discourse-analysis-with-a-special-reference-to-religio-political-discourse/</link>
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		<title>Post lecture notes for students of IR 6901: (Week 6) Foucault: Writing the history of discourses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Post lecture notes for students of IR 6901: (Week 6) Introduction to  Discourse Analysis, with a special reference to religio-political  discourse: 
Foucault: Writing the history of discourses and discursive economies
This week we read Michel Foucault’s (d.1984) Discipline and Punish:  The Birth of the Prison (Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la  Prison, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/04/13/post-lecture-notes-for-students-of-ir-6901-week-6-foucault-writing-the-history-of-discourses/</link>
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		<title>Post lecture notes for students of IR 6901: (Week 5, notes b) Wittgenstein’s Language Games: Implications for discourse analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Post lecture notes for students of IR 6901: (Week 5, notes b)  Introduction to Discourse Analysis, with a special reference to  religio-political discourse:
Wittgenstein’s Language Games: Implications for discourse analysis.
From this point onwards in the course, we will be referring a lot to  Wittgenstein’s notion of language-games (as rule-governed  context-bound modes of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/04/08/post-lecture-notes-for-students-of-ir-6901-week-5-notes-b-wittgenstein%e2%80%99s-language-games-implications-for-discourse-analysis/</link>
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		<title>Post lecture notes for students of IR 6901: (Week 5) Wittgenstein’s theory of Language-games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Post lecture notes for students of IR 6901: (Week 5) Introduction to  Discourse Analysis, with a special reference to religio-political  discourse:
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: Rule-following and the  theory of Language-games.
A. Why I cannot praise the Tractatus on its own terms:
I would like to praise Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and say that it is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/04/08/post-lecture-notes-for-students-of-ir-6901-week-5-wittgenstein%e2%80%99s-theory-of-language-games/</link>
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		<title>Post lecture notes for students of IR 6901: (Week 4,b) Introduction to Discourse Analysis, with a special reference to religio-political discourse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: The ‘Picture theory of meaning’ and the limits of language
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) was written based on notes that he wrote while serving in the trenches as an Austrian soldier in world war one, and is in many ways influenced by the works of two important logicians and philosophers, Bertrand Russell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/03/30/post-lecture-notes-for-students-of-ir-6901-week-4b-introduction-to-discourse-analysis-with-a-special-reference-to-religio-political-discourse/</link>
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		<title>Post lecture notes for students of IR 6901: (Week 4,a) Frege’s Begriffsschrift and the language of pure thought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A. Frege and Analytical Philosophy: 
The tradition of Western philosophy which began with Socrates/Plato and Aristotle took off from the starting point of the dialectic and the questioning of the world around us. From the pre-Hellenic philosophers to the early modern philosophers of the 17th century (Descartes, Hobbes and Locke) the aim of philosophy was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/03/29/post-lecture-notes-for-students-of-ir-6901-week-4a-frege%e2%80%99s-begriffsschrift-and-the-language-of-pure-thought/</link>
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		<title>Post lecture notes for students of IR 6901: (Week 3, part 2) Hobbes: Private Language and the policing of definitions in a state</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Post lecture notes for students of IR 6901: (Week 3, part 2) Introduction to Discourse Analysis, with a special reference to religio-political discourse: 
Hobbes: Private Language and the policing of definitions in a state 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) wrote his works before John Locke but for the purposes of this lecture I will start with Locke [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/03/22/post-lecture-notes-for-students-of-ir-6901-week-3-part-2-hobbes-private-language-and-the-policing-of-definitions-in-a-state/</link>
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		<title>Post lecture notes for students of IR 6901: (Week 3) Locke: Nominalism and the language of governance and politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Post lecture notes for students of IR 6901: (Week 3) Introduction to Discourse Analysis, with a special reference to religio-political discourse: (Part 2)
Locke: Nominalism and the language of governance and politics
John Locke (1632-1704) is known for his theories on governance and is widely credited with the development of the idea of separation of powers and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/03/22/post-lecture-notes-for-students-of-ir-6901-week-3-locke-nominalism-and-the-language-of-governance-and-politics/</link>
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		<title>Post lecture notes for students of IR 6901: (Week 2, Part 2) Descartes, Hobbes and Locke: towards Foundationalism and Empiricism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Post lecture notes for students of IR 6901: (Week 2) Introduction to Discourse Analysis, with a special reference to religio-political discourse: (Part 2)
Descartes, Hobbes and Locke: from Idealism and Essentialism to Foundationalism and Empiricism.
Russell (1946) notes that the long shadow of Plato and Aristotle was to have a deleterious effect on the development of Western [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/03/16/post-lecture-notes-for-students-of-ir-6901-week-2-part-2-descartes-hobbes-and-locke-towards-foundationalism-and-empiricism/</link>
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		<title>Lecture notes for students of IR 6901: (Week 2): From Socrates/Plato to Aristotle: Idealism and Essentialism in Truth-claims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Socrates/Plato and Aristotle to Descartes, Hobbes and Locke: Western Philosophy and the search for grounding in knowledge-claims and language-use.
Question: How do you know that you are reading this? Let me frame the question a little wider: How do you know that you are actually reading this right now, and not sleeping in bed and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/03/16/lecture-notes-for-students-of-ir-6901-week-2-from-socratesplato-to-aristotle-idealism-and-essentialism-in-truth-claims/</link>
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		<title>Post lecture notes for students of IR 6007: Introduction to Discourse Analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the course IR 6007 ‘Introduction to Discourse Analysis with a special reference to religio-political discourse’.
Before we get into the course, allow me to highlight some of the points that were briefly discussed today:
1. What is discourse analysis and what is this course about?
Before we go any further, let me point out that discourse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/03/10/post-lecture-notes-for-students-of-ir-6007-introduction-to-discourse-analysis/</link>
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		<title>Final post-exam note for students of AS6011: State, Society and Politics in Malaysia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To all of you who managed to get to the end of the course without suffering any adverse medical side-effects, well done. Now that the exams are over, I do hope that you will take a brief pause (a brief one) and energize yourselves for the next trimester.
For the next trimester I will be doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/03/10/final-post-exam-note-for-students-of-as6011-state-society-and-politics-in-malaysia/</link>
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		<title>A Note for Valentines Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Going through my store of old books and 1st edition works on Malaysia and Southeast Asia, I came across an early edition of one of the works of Frank Swettenham, the colonial official who was one of the governors of British Malaya.
On the inside cover Swettenham had hand-written a note to the person to whom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/02/12/a-note-for-valentines-day/</link>
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		<title>Post-Lecture notes for students of: AS6011 State, Society and Politics in Malaysia (Week 10): 2004-2008 The Badawi Years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To sum up our discussion in class today, let us return to the salient features and events of the Badawi years:
1. The elections of 2004: The rise and near-total dominance of UMNO and the eclipse of the opposition in Malaysia.
The elections of 2004 were, and remain, difficult to explain: It led to an overwhelming endorsement [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/02/12/post-lecture-notes-for-students-of-as6011-state-society-and-politics-in-malaysia-week-10-2004-2008-the-badawi-years/</link>
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		<title>Post-Lecture notes for students of: AS6011 State, Society and Politics in Malaysia (Week 9): Crisis and Radical Contingency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When looking at the tumultuous years between 1997-2001, we often come across the term ‘crisis’ in the writings and analyses of the event/s that took place during that short period. Two things need to be borne in mind here:
Firstly, our working operational definition of ‘crisis’ and what it is; and secondly how crisis can and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/02/12/post-lecture-notes-for-students-of-as6011-state-society-and-politics-in-malaysia-week-9-crisis-and-radical-contingency/</link>
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		<title>Post-Lecture notes for students of AS6011: Panty-less Protest in Malaysia: Revisiting James Scott&#8217;s Thesis of Passive Resistance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we discussed during our coffee break yesterday, when looking at the role of the state and the hegemonic presence of the state apparatus in a country like Malaysia, it is important to note the extent to which the state is really present in all aspects of social life, and equally important to note the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/02/12/post-lecture-notes-for-students-of-as6011-panty-less-protest-in-malaysia-revisiting-james-scotts-thesis-of-passive-resistance/</link>
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