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dc.contributor.authorLeong, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:48:23Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:48:23Z
dc.date.created2013-10-02T20:00:44Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationLeong, Susan. 2012. Sacred cows and crashing boars : ethno-religious minorities and the politics of online representation in Malaysia. Critical Asian Studies. 44 (1): pp. 31-56.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35232
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14672715.2012.644886
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Starting with the incident now known as the cow’s head protest, this article traces and unpacks the events, techniques, and conditions surrounding the representation of ethno-religious minorities in Malaysia. The author suggests that the Malaysian Indians’ struggle to correct the dominant reading of their community as an impoverished and humbled underclass is a disruption of the dominant cultural order in Malaysia. The struggle is also among the key events to have set in motion a set of dynamics—the visual turn—introduced by new media into the politics of ethno-communal representation in Malaysia. Believing that this situation requires urgent examination the author attempts to outline the problematics of the task.

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.subjectHindu temples
dc.subjectShah Alam
dc.subjectSeksyen 23
dc.subjectCow head protest
dc.subjectethno-religious minorities
dc.subjectMalaysian Indians
dc.titleSacred cows and crashing boars : ethno-religious minorities and the politics of online representation in Malaysia
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume44
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage31
dcterms.source.endPage56
dcterms.source.issn14672715
dcterms.source.titleCritical Asian Studies
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This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in the Critical Asian Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1, 2012, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14672715.2012.644886">http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14672715.2012.644886</a>

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