Abstract:How did the national oil company of a small, fledgeling nation grow into a Fortune 500 company? Economic nationalism came to Malaysia later than it did for its neighbours, and scholars have neglected crucial perspectives on how it took shape. One salient symbol of this national sovereignty came with the formation of a national oil company, PETRONAS, which overcame internal and external political threats, corporate intimidation by oil multinationals, and an initial lack of trained specialist staff. Drawing upon primary sources from diverse perspectives, this article discusses how PETRONAS became a global player in the fossil fuel industry, and negotiated successfully with well-established international partners and competitors.
{"title":"PETRONAS, Oil Money, and Malaysia's National Sovereignty","authors":"S. Yacob","doi":"10.1353/ras.2021.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:How did the national oil company of a small, fledgeling nation grow into a Fortune 500 company? Economic nationalism came to Malaysia later than it did for its neighbours, and scholars have neglected crucial perspectives on how it took shape. One salient symbol of this national sovereignty came with the formation of a national oil company, PETRONAS, which overcame internal and external political threats, corporate intimidation by oil multinationals, and an initial lack of trained specialist staff. Drawing upon primary sources from diverse perspectives, this article discusses how PETRONAS became a global player in the fossil fuel industry, and negotiated successfully with well-established international partners and competitors.","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"119 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ras.2021.0014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48632303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Crown & The Capitalists, The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation by Wasana Wongsurawat (review)","authors":"M. Sathian","doi":"10.1353/ras.2021.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"223 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ras.2021.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43920846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Roots of Resilience: Party Machines and Grassroots Politics in Singapore and Malaysia by Meredith L. Weiss (review)","authors":"B. Welsh","doi":"10.1353/ras.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"238 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ras.2021.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45208202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. S. Parreñas, A. Izharuddin, M. B. Haines, Faizah Zakaria, R. Cribb
Abstract:Juno Parreñas' ground-breaking monograph examines how power relations are embedded in interactions of work and care between humans and animals, using the case of orangutan rehabilitation in Sarawak as a lens. It encourages us to imagine a different, ethical mode of living with animals even if it involves risks to ourselves. Each contributor to this roundtable critically analyzes an aspect of the book. Alicia Izharuddin focuses on issues arising from gendered care in the volume, Monamie Haines reflects on how the book deploys the concepts of nature-culture and decolonization, Faizah Zakaria discusses the moral imperatives in the book and the possibilities it holds for radical change, and Robert Cribb analyzes the book's colonial framework and the multiple meanings that freedom could take for humans and animals alike.
{"title":"Power, Care and Species Difference in Orangutan Rehabilitation in Sarawak: A Roundtable","authors":"J. S. Parreñas, A. Izharuddin, M. B. Haines, Faizah Zakaria, R. Cribb","doi":"10.1353/ras.2021.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Juno Parreñas' ground-breaking monograph examines how power relations are embedded in interactions of work and care between humans and animals, using the case of orangutan rehabilitation in Sarawak as a lens. It encourages us to imagine a different, ethical mode of living with animals even if it involves risks to ourselves. Each contributor to this roundtable critically analyzes an aspect of the book. Alicia Izharuddin focuses on issues arising from gendered care in the volume, Monamie Haines reflects on how the book deploys the concepts of nature-culture and decolonization, Faizah Zakaria discusses the moral imperatives in the book and the possibilities it holds for radical change, and Robert Cribb analyzes the book's colonial framework and the multiple meanings that freedom could take for humans and animals alike.","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"203 - 215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ras.2021.0019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44817885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The voices of women defectors from the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) rarely feature in the MCP's grand narrative of its struggle for liberation in Malaya or in accounts prepared by party veterans, and only become visible through the prism of government propaganda. Using published memoirs, interview material from the Oral History Centre at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), and personal interviews with two former women cadres of the MCP, this article focuses on the views of women who defected before the signing of the 1989 Haadyai Peace Accord. It provides the perspective of ordinary members on the MCP's ideas regarding war and revolution, and the position of women.
{"title":"'I Want to Live': Malayan Communist Party Struggles as Seen by Female Defectors","authors":"Mahani Musa","doi":"10.1353/ras.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The voices of women defectors from the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) rarely feature in the MCP's grand narrative of its struggle for liberation in Malaya or in accounts prepared by party veterans, and only become visible through the prism of government propaganda. Using published memoirs, interview material from the Oral History Centre at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), and personal interviews with two former women cadres of the MCP, this article focuses on the views of women who defected before the signing of the 1989 Haadyai Peace Accord. It provides the perspective of ordinary members on the MCP's ideas regarding war and revolution, and the position of women.","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"100 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ras.2021.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41448580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Free Port to Modern Economy: Economic Development and Social Change in Penang, 1969 to 1990 ed. by Chet Singh et al. (review)","authors":"G. Lim","doi":"10.1353/ras.2021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"228 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ras.2021.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43009833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Striving for Inclusive Development: From Pangkor to a Modern Malaysian State by Hrh Sultan Nazrin Shah (review)","authors":"Yeong Pey Jung","doi":"10.1353/ras.2021.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"235 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ras.2021.0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45966254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alternative Voices in Muslim Southeast Asia: Discourse and Struggles ed. by Norshahril Saat and Azhar Ibrahim (review)","authors":"A. Hamid","doi":"10.1353/ras.2021.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"225 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ras.2021.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44012821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Account of Affairs in Larut Leading to British Intervention","authors":"L. Wray","doi":"10.1353/ras.2021.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"197 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ras.2021.0018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42264795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Malays featured prominently in the politico-military affairs of Mainland Southeast Asia during the 18th and 19th centuries, in part because of their expert understanding of the power dynamics of the region. Vietnamese official records and Cam historical narratives show the role Malays played in the conflicts that tore through the region, but a detailed examination of these sources raises new questions regarding the origins of these Malay figures and their intentions. This study of the Malay Diaspora in the Indochinese Peninsula as seen through vernacular accounts goes beyond nationalist stereotypes and expands understandings of the dynamics of inter-ethnic associations in Southeast Asia.
{"title":"Malays in the Indochinese Peninsula: Adventurers, Warlords and Ministers","authors":"Nicolas Weber","doi":"10.1353/ras.2021.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Malays featured prominently in the politico-military affairs of Mainland Southeast Asia during the 18th and 19th centuries, in part because of their expert understanding of the power dynamics of the region. Vietnamese official records and Cam historical narratives show the role Malays played in the conflicts that tore through the region, but a detailed examination of these sources raises new questions regarding the origins of these Malay figures and their intentions. This study of the Malay Diaspora in the Indochinese Peninsula as seen through vernacular accounts goes beyond nationalist stereotypes and expands understandings of the dynamics of inter-ethnic associations in Southeast Asia.","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"1 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ras.2021.0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42149775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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