Processes of State, Class and Ethno-Racial Formation in Urban Malaysia: Geo-Spatial Transformations and Regime Shifts 1970-2000

Authors

  • Donald M. Nonini University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Keywords:

urban spatial transformations, class formation, state formation, ethno-racial formation, Malaysia, cryptogeographies

Abstract

This article is a historico-ethnographic reconstruction of the simultaneously interconnected processes of postcolonial state, class and ethno-racial formation in Malaysia, as these were refracted in the daily lives of ethnic Chinese in one Malaysian city over a 30-year period (1970-2000). The projects of the dominant Malay ethno-racial fraction of the ruling elite to deflect class struggles, protect capital and consolidate its class interests through state expansion have become visible as aspects of space (Lebfebvre 1974) in the built environment of the city, as have the dialectical responses of resistance and emigration by the city's Chinese residents to these projects.

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Published

2022-06-29

How to Cite

Nonini, D. M. (2022). Processes of State, Class and Ethno-Racial Formation in Urban Malaysia: Geo-Spatial Transformations and Regime Shifts 1970-2000. Anthropologica, 50(2), 255–268. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/2506

Issue

Vol. 50 No. 2 (2008): Urban Anthropology / Citizenship

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