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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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		<title>Letter to Eddin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[4th February 2010
Dear Eddin,
Last night, as weariness overcame me and fatigue took its toll, I sought refuge from the madness around us by turning to the things I hold dear to me. As I lay on the couch with cigarette in hand and a cup of tea within reach, I held in my hand the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/02/12/letter-to-eddin/</link>
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		<title>Additional Post-Lecture notes for students of: AS6011 State, Society and Politics in Malaysia (Week 9): 1990–1997</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note that while the 1980s were a period when Malaysia’s economy was being re-structured to prepare the way for industrialisation, by the 1990s Malaysia’s laws had been reformed to suit the needs of international capital and investors, ensuring asset liquidity and rapid capital transfers in and out of the country. The government had also opened [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/02/12/additional-post-lecture-notes-for-students-of-as6011-state-society-and-politics-in-malaysia-week-9-1990%e2%80%931997/</link>
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		<title>Can ASEAN accept its Complex Past and Present: Talk at ASEAN LOGICS conference IIUM 2 Feb 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(This is a summary of the talk I gave at the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM) on 2 February 2010, at the ASEAN LOGICS conference. The panel was addressing the question of Addressing the Gulf/Divide in ASEAN over Cultural, Racial and Religious Differences. Ive tried to reproduce my talk verbatim below.)
Ladies and Gentlemen, fellow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/02/03/can-asean-accept-its-complex-past-and-present-talk-at-asean-logics-conference-iium-2-feb-2010/</link>
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		<title>Khinzir, Lembu dan Raksaksa di Kalangan Kita</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(*Terjemahan dari rencana Farish A. Noor bertajuk “Pigs&#8217; Heads, Cows&#8217; Heads and The Demons Among Us” oleh saudara David Chong yang budiman. Saya terhutang budi kepadanya atas kesudian beliau untuk menterjemahkan rencana ini.- FN )
Oleh Farish A Noor/ Diterjemahkan oleh David Chong
Terjemahan Mahabharatta dalam bahasa Melayu-Indonesia, Hikayat Pandawa Lima, menceritakan episod menarik dan mustahak yang [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/01/29/khinzir-lembu-dan-raksaksa-di-kalangan-kita/</link>
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		<title>Q and A for students of AS6011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q and A for students of AS6011:
I&#8217;ve taken the liberty of cutting and pasting some of the questions that some of you have been sending me over the past two weeks and am going to address them here as best I can in stages. Here are some of the questions that Ive received so far, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/01/29/q-and-a-for-students-of-as6011/</link>
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		<title>Pigs&#8217; Heads, Cows&#8217; Heads and The Demons Among Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Malay-Indonesian rendering of the Mahabharatta, the Hikayat Pandawa Lima, we have an interesting and important episode that takes place as the great battle of Bharatayudha is fought. The Pandawa prince Yudistira - who is an ascetic and pacifist at heart - is forced to do battle with the great King Prabu Salya. Prabu [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/01/27/pigs-heads-cows-heads-and-the-demons-among-us/</link>
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		<title>The Maharaja Wears No Clothes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking at the state of Malaysian politics and society today, at a time when the nation is caught in the grip of a collective anxiety over questions of identity and its future, it is heartening to note that so many of the efforts at nation-building, reconciliation, the fostering of a sense of nationhood and common [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/01/27/the-maharaja-wears-no-clothes/</link>
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		<title>Timeline for students of AS6011: State, Society and Politics in Malaysia: 1981-1990 (Week 8)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Timeline for students of AS6011: State, Society and Politics in Malaysia: 1981-1990
1979: Pakistan declares itself to be the world&#8217;s first officially Islamic state and Iran goes through a revolution that topples the Shah of Iran and leads to the rise of the Islamist revolutionaries led by Ayatollah Khomeini.
The impact of both events is felt all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/01/27/timeline-for-students-of-as6011-state-society-and-politics-in-malaysia-1981-1990-week-8/</link>
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		<title>Additional notes for students of AS6011: State, Society and Politics in Malaysia: 1981-1990 (Week 8)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first decade of PM Mahathir Mohamad
Note: The main text for this week and next will be chapters 4-5 from: Farish A Noor, Islam Embedded: The Historical Development of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) 1951-2003, MSRI, Kuala Lumpur, 2004. (Volume 2)
To return to our discussions earlier, note the salient points of this period:
1. Malaysia&#8217;s Islamisation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/01/27/additional-notes-for-students-of-as6011-state-society-and-politics-in-malaysia-1981-1990-week-8/</link>
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		<title>Political Concessions in a Complex Country: The Social and Political Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Malaysia has been making international headlines over the past few weeks for all the wrong reasons, yet again. The spate of arson attacks on Churches, Temples and Mosques is a worrying sign that the fragile social contract - if there ever was one - that underlies the Malaysian multicultural project is in danger of falling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/01/22/political-concessions-in-a-complex-country-the-social-and-political-costs/</link>
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		<title>Additional notes for students of AS6011: State, Society and Politics in Malaysia: The Razak and Onn Years (1970-1981)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following the discussion we had today, let us return to the salient points that were raised:
1. The National Operations Council. Now referring to the interview with one of the directors of the NOC (that appeared in Off the Edge magazine and which was photocopied to you), note that the National Operations Council (1970-71) marked the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/01/22/additional-notes-for-students-of-as6011-state-society-and-politics-in-malaysia-the-razak-and-onn-years-1970-1981/</link>
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		<title>Observations on the current situation in Malaysia for students of AS6011: State, Society and Politics in Malaysia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nationalism, Communitarianism and the Contestation for Symbols and Meaning over the &#8220;Allah controversy&#8221;: Structural-Economic Underpinnings.
Apropos last week&#8217;s discussion about the current controversy over the use of the word &#8216;Allah&#8217; by Christians in Malaysia, we need to take into account the socio-economic and structural underpinnings of what is going on and the variable factors that have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/01/19/observations-on-the-current-situation-in-malaysia-for-students-of-as6011-state-society-and-politics-in-malaysia/</link>
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		<title>Observations on the essay question for students of AS6011: State, Society and Politics in Malaysia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve done with marking almost all of the mid-term essay paper for AS6011 State, Society and Politics in Malaysia and I would like to raise some concerns/observations in general.
1. Is Malaysia a &#8216;complex&#8217; situation, and if so, why?
I noted that in several essays there was still this tendency to identify/present Malaysia as a &#8216;complex&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/01/19/observations-on-the-essay-question-for-students-of-as6011-state-society-and-politics-in-malaysia/</link>
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		<title>Additional Post-Lecture notes for students of: AS6011 State, Society and Politics in Malaysia (Week 7): Konfrontasi and Emergency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I. Konfrontasi with Indonesia and its background as well as implications.
As we saw last week, Malaya declared its independence on 31 August 1957 while the country was still in a state of Emergency. The end of the Emergency was finally declared on 31 August 1960. By then, the MCP had been effectively checked and defeated, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.othermalaysia.org/2010/01/19/additional-post-lecture-notes-for-students-of-as6011-state-society-and-politics-in-malaysia-week-7-konfrontasi-and-emergency/</link>
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