Rahil Ismail
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 644170 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rahil Ismail |
| NOMBRES | Rahil |
| APELLIDO | Ismail |
| FIRMA | ISMAIL R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Malaya |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1533-0075 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Malay-Muslim Punk Women in Malaysia
This study explores how Muslim women in Malaysia’s punk scene use dress as a means of negotiating identity at the intersection of gender, religion, and subculture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, including participant observation and in-depth interviews, it examines how these women rework punk aesthetics to local cultural and moral frameworks. Their sartorial practices emerge through careful negotiation rather than outright resistance, blendin…
Dandelions in the mirror
This case study investigates how Chinese lesbians negotiate identity within the family context, foregrounding visual practices as crucial sites of negotiation often overlooked in textual or verbal studies. Utilizing participant-driven Photo Elicitation Interviews (PEI) with eight women across different provinces, and working through the Visual Narrative of Identity (VNI) framework that reinterprets Butler’s performativity and Lacan’s mirror stage…
A case study of Tian Yali and the contemporary revival of Chinese folk art
This article examines the evolution of Chinese folk artist Tian Yali, whose paper-cutting artworks reflect broader cultural and artistic transformations in contemporary China. Since the 1980s, stimulated by the attention paid to folk art by art intellectuals, the legitimacy of paper-cutting, once associated with rural superstitions and feudal norms, has steadily increased and it is now recognised as a legitimated art form. Through a detailed case…
Dialect shift and cultural dynamism among Betawi community in urban Jakarta in Palang Pintu and Rebut Dandang traditional ceremonies
The Betawi dialects, Betawi Tengahan and Betawi Pinggiran, are crucial to the identity of the Betawi people in Indonesia. Betawi Tengahan, prevalent in central Jakarta, has a vocabulary similar to standard Indonesian, while Betawi Pinggiran, spoken in the outskirts like Depok and Bekasi, retains influences from Sundanese and Javanese. Both dialects are in decline, particularly among younger generations who increasingly favor Indonesian (Bahasa In…
Identity and cultural allegory amidst the Chinese new era
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of two Chinese science fiction films, The Wandering Earth and Crazy Alien, shedding light on their profound connection to identity and cultural allegory within the context of the Chinese New Era. We employ the Greimas’s actantial model and semantic square to examine the narrative strategies, visual symbols, and cultural representations in these films. The Wandering Earth unfolds a grand narrative ancho…
Female Consciousness and Stereotypes in Chinese Female-Directed Cinema
This paper analyzes Chinese female director Teng Congcong’s film Send Me to the Clouds to reveal the relationship between female consciousness and ideologies of power in the context of the current Chinese era. We examine the narrative strategies, imagery symbols and power ideologies in the film through Foucault’s body theory and feminist film theory. Send Me to the Clouds takes the redemption of life as its narrative strategy and incorporates ele…
Sartorial subversion in subculture of Malaysian female Muslim punks
Punk culture, with its hallmark rebellious aesthetic, often stands in stark contrast to the modesty prescribed by Islamic traditions, particularly regarding women's attire. This article explores the sartorial practices of female Muslim punks in Malaysia, investigating the complex interplay of gender, religion, and subcultural identities within the Malaysian context. Employing an ethnographic approach, we examine how these women use dress for self…
Sartorial Strategies of Female Punks in Malaysia’s Socio-Religious Landscape
Object-Oriented Ontology in Shaping Perspective on Bacterial Art and Nonhuman Agency
The study of bacterial art provides an opportunity to investigate the philosophical framework of object-oriented ontology (OOO). This viewpoint challenges traditional human-centered perspectives by highlighting the autonomy and agency of all objects, including microorganisms. Objects have their own inherent properties and are regarded as equal actors in the world. The authors highlight the dynamic relationship between humans and microorganisms an…
Southeast Asian Culture and Heritage in a Globalising World
Southeast Asia has in recent years become a crossroads of cultures with high levels of ethnic pluralism, not only between countries, sub-regions and urban areas, but also at the local levels of community and neighbourhood. Illustrated by a series of international case studies, this book demonstrates how the forces of 'post-colonialism' in their various manifestations are accelerating social change and creating new and 'imagined' communities, some…
I get by with a little help from my friends? Volunteerism as Multicultural Experiential Education
Studies have demonstrated that interaction among different social groups can conceivably surface perceivable benefits for greater multicultural communication and mutual understanding. The suggestion is that the acquisition of ‘real’ knowledge acquired through direct interaction provides attendant opportunities to disabuse stereotypes and create paths for a more harmonious co-existence. Volunteerism or the inter-group helping hand relations is one…
Ethnoscapes, entertainment and ’eritage in the global city
Ramadan and Bussorah Street
Heritage, politics and identity in Southeast Asia
Singapore's Malay-Muslim minority
Fundamental within Singapore's modernisation push ‘From Third World to First’ was the long-term strategy of establishing a Singapore identity based on multiracialism, multilingualism, multiculturalism and multireligiousity (the ‘4Ms’). But while wholesale landscape changes have largely removed earlier associations between ethnicity and residence, government promotion of a shared Singapore identity has been frustrated by the lagging educational an…
Ethnoscapes, entertainment and ’eritage in the global city
Singapore's Malay-Muslim minority
Fundamental within Singapore's modernisation push ‘From Third World to First’ was the long-term strategy of establishing a Singapore identity based on multiracialism, multilingualism, multiculturalism and multireligiousity (the ‘4Ms’). But while wholesale landscape changes have largely removed earlier associations between ethnicity and residence, government promotion of a shared Singapore identity has been frustrated by the lagging educational an…
Ramadan and Bussorah Street
Ethnoscapes, entertainment and ’eritage in the global city
Ramadan and Bussorah Street
Heritage, politics and identity in Southeast Asia
Singapore's Malay-Muslim minority
Fundamental within Singapore's modernisation push ‘From Third World to First’ was the long-term strategy of establishing a Singapore identity based on multiracialism, multilingualism, multiculturalism and multireligiousity (the ‘4Ms’). But while wholesale landscape changes have largely removed earlier associations between ethnicity and residence, government promotion of a shared Singapore identity has been frustrated by the lagging educational an…
I get by with a little help from my friends? Volunteerism as Multicultural Experiential Education
Studies have demonstrated that interaction among different social groups can conceivably surface perceivable benefits for greater multicultural communication and mutual understanding. The suggestion is that the acquisition of ‘real’ knowledge acquired through direct interaction provides attendant opportunities to disabuse stereotypes and create paths for a more harmonious co-existence. Volunteerism or the inter-group helping hand relations is one…
Southeast Asian Culture and Heritage in a Globalising World
Southeast Asia has in recent years become a crossroads of cultures with high levels of ethnic pluralism, not only between countries, sub-regions and urban areas, but also at the local levels of community and neighbourhood. Illustrated by a series of international case studies, this book demonstrates how the forces of 'post-colonialism' in their various manifestations are accelerating social change and creating new and 'imagined' communities, some…
Dialect shift and cultural dynamism among Betawi community in urban Jakarta in Palang Pintu and Rebut Dandang traditional ceremonies
The Betawi dialects, Betawi Tengahan and Betawi Pinggiran, are crucial to the identity of the Betawi people in Indonesia. Betawi Tengahan, prevalent in central Jakarta, has a vocabulary similar to standard Indonesian, while Betawi Pinggiran, spoken in the outskirts like Depok and Bekasi, retains influences from Sundanese and Javanese. Both dialects are in decline, particularly among younger generations who increasingly favor Indonesian (Bahasa In…
Identity and cultural allegory amidst the Chinese new era
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of two Chinese science fiction films, The Wandering Earth and Crazy Alien, shedding light on their profound connection to identity and cultural allegory within the context of the Chinese New Era. We employ the Greimas’s actantial model and semantic square to examine the narrative strategies, visual symbols, and cultural representations in these films. The Wandering Earth unfolds a grand narrative ancho…
Female Consciousness and Stereotypes in Chinese Female-Directed Cinema
This paper analyzes Chinese female director Teng Congcong’s film Send Me to the Clouds to reveal the relationship between female consciousness and ideologies of power in the context of the current Chinese era. We examine the narrative strategies, imagery symbols and power ideologies in the film through Foucault’s body theory and feminist film theory. Send Me to the Clouds takes the redemption of life as its narrative strategy and incorporates ele…
Sartorial subversion in subculture of Malaysian female Muslim punks
Punk culture, with its hallmark rebellious aesthetic, often stands in stark contrast to the modesty prescribed by Islamic traditions, particularly regarding women's attire. This article explores the sartorial practices of female Muslim punks in Malaysia, investigating the complex interplay of gender, religion, and subcultural identities within the Malaysian context. Employing an ethnographic approach, we examine how these women use dress for self…
Sartorial Strategies of Female Punks in Malaysia’s Socio-Religious Landscape
Object-Oriented Ontology in Shaping Perspective on Bacterial Art and Nonhuman Agency
The study of bacterial art provides an opportunity to investigate the philosophical framework of object-oriented ontology (OOO). This viewpoint challenges traditional human-centered perspectives by highlighting the autonomy and agency of all objects, including microorganisms. Objects have their own inherent properties and are regarded as equal actors in the world. The authors highlight the dynamic relationship between humans and microorganisms an…
A case study of Tian Yali and the contemporary revival of Chinese folk art
This article examines the evolution of Chinese folk artist Tian Yali, whose paper-cutting artworks reflect broader cultural and artistic transformations in contemporary China. Since the 1980s, stimulated by the attention paid to folk art by art intellectuals, the legitimacy of paper-cutting, once associated with rural superstitions and feudal norms, has steadily increased and it is now recognised as a legitimated art form. Through a detailed case…
Malay-Muslim Punk Women in Malaysia
This study explores how Muslim women in Malaysia’s punk scene use dress as a means of negotiating identity at the intersection of gender, religion, and subculture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, including participant observation and in-depth interviews, it examines how these women rework punk aesthetics to local cultural and moral frameworks. Their sartorial practices emerge through careful negotiation rather than outright resistance, blendin…
Dandelions in the mirror
This case study investigates how Chinese lesbians negotiate identity within the family context, foregrounding visual practices as crucial sites of negotiation often overlooked in textual or verbal studies. Utilizing participant-driven Photo Elicitation Interviews (PEI) with eight women across different provinces, and working through the Visual Narrative of Identity (VNI) framework that reinterprets Butler’s performativity and Lacan’s mirror stage…
Sociology (10 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (7 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Asian Studies and History (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras) · Anthropology (3 obras) · Archaeology (3 obras)