Kee Howe Yong
Biographic Data
| ID | 655951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kee Howe Yong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kee Howe |
| FAMILY NAME | Yong |
| SIGNATURE | YONG K H |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7152-8764 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Can the Malay Muslims be Thai enough in Thailand’s far South
This essay examines the construction of minorities in Thailand, questioning its naturalness, both theoretically and practically. Investigating the plight of Malay Muslim minorities in Thailand's far south can show how minorities are central to the construction of state power in Thailand. This article argues that Siam's annexation of the Sultanate of Patani requires a revision that brings its Malay Muslim subjects centrally and integrally into the…
For We Are Also What We Have Lost
This essay describes and analyzes a historical situation of loss in Thailand's far south since the annexation of the Sultanate of Patani by Siam and its recurring conflict since the late 1940s. What was felt to be lost for my Malay Muslim interlocutors was a history of protracted struggles against a Thai Buddhist kingdom—the implications of which varied widely and were experienced unevenly. For some elites, the present violence reflected the loss…
The Mak Pasar: Engaging with the Difficulty of Reality in a Recurring Conflict-ridden Thailand’s Far South
Pictures of women eking out a living at open-air markets in conflict zones are often used worldwide to elicit sympathy and outrage. Their chilies, synecdoche here for the commodities they sell at the open-air markets, constitutes another stereotypical image of these women living on the margins of the economy. However, what remains missing in most analyses is the focus on the lives and livelihoods of these women who bear the hardships of maintaini…
Staging history for Thailand's far south: Fantasy for a supposedly pliant Muslim community
If the current conflict in Thailand's far south could be interpreted as a revival and full retelling of the 1940s modernist Islamic awakening, why have local Muslim elites and various state agents in the historical present circumvented such a reawakening? Instead, what was broadcast was another history, namely a certain glorious Patani past that supposedly featured a harmonious relationship with Siam. My stipulation of the 1940s Islamic reawakeni…
The Hakkas of Sarawak: Sacrificial Gifts in Cold War Era Malaysia
This book tells the story of the Hakka Chinese in Sarawak, Malaysia, who were targeted as communists or communist sympathizers because of their Chinese ethnicity the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of these rural Hakkas were relocated into "new villages" surrounded by barbed wire or detained at correction centres, where incarcerated people were understood to be "sacrificial gifts" to the war on communism and to the rule of Malaysia’s judicial-administ…
There Are ponoks , and There Are ponoks: Traditional Religious Boarding Schools in Thailand's Far-South
There has been a vast corpus of literature on Islam and Muslims since 9/11 that sought to locate the basis of Muslimness in some primordial essentialist cultural value. Since then, many Muslim religious boarding schools in predominantly Muslim countries in South and Southeast Asia have been policed and raided. This essay, based on fieldwork conducted in Thailand’s far-south, hope to provide a different picture from what has commonly been portraye…
Representation, Identity and Multiculturalism in Sarawak
The Politics and Aesthetics of Place-names in Sarawak
As elements of the political landscape, place-names can express not only the ideological themes of the state but also the political atmosphere and processes by which nation-states make their impression on the landscape. This essay, based on fieldwork conducted in Sarawak, Malaysia, in 1999 and 2000, addresses the nature of place-names in Sarawak and focuses on how certain communities react to the place-names of their villages and townships in the…
Divergent Interpretations of Communism and Currents of Duplicity in Post-Cold War Sarawak
According to the literature on the history of communism in Sarawak, Malaysia, it was the concerted effort of the government in educating the public of the danger within the state that led to the demise of the communist movements. In this article, I argue that the prevailing ideology of the progress of democracy against the evil of communism, on which a large portion of the scholarship on communism in Sarawak is based, needs to be re-examined. Mor…
Silences in history and nation-state: Reluctant accounts of the Cold War in Sarawak
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, thousands of rural Chinese Hakkas in Sarawak, Malaysia, just like millions of others throughout the Third World during the Cold War, were targeted as communists or communist sympathizers and were detained at correction centers or relocated into barbed wire-controlled villages. However, given such a past, most of these Hakkas remained extremely reluctant to give their representations of this history. As an anthropol…
Silences in history and nation-state: Reluctant accounts of the Cold War in Sarawak
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, thousands of rural Chinese Hakkas in Sarawak, Malaysia, just like millions of others throughout the Third World during the Cold War, were targeted as communists or communist sympathizers and were detained at correction centers or relocated into barbed wire-controlled villages. However, given such a past, most of these Hakkas remained extremely reluctant to give their representations of this history. As an anthropol…
Representation, Identity and Multiculturalism in Sarawak
Staging history for Thailand's far south: Fantasy for a supposedly pliant Muslim community
If the current conflict in Thailand's far south could be interpreted as a revival and full retelling of the 1940s modernist Islamic awakening, why have local Muslim elites and various state agents in the historical present circumvented such a reawakening? Instead, what was broadcast was another history, namely a certain glorious Patani past that supposedly featured a harmonious relationship with Siam. My stipulation of the 1940s Islamic reawakeni…
The Politics and Aesthetics of Place-names in Sarawak
As elements of the political landscape, place-names can express not only the ideological themes of the state but also the political atmosphere and processes by which nation-states make their impression on the landscape. This essay, based on fieldwork conducted in Sarawak, Malaysia, in 1999 and 2000, addresses the nature of place-names in Sarawak and focuses on how certain communities react to the place-names of their villages and townships in the…
Silences in history and nation-state: Reluctant accounts of the Cold War in Sarawak
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, thousands of rural Chinese Hakkas in Sarawak, Malaysia, just like millions of others throughout the Third World during the Cold War, were targeted as communists or communist sympathizers and were detained at correction centers or relocated into barbed wire-controlled villages. However, given such a past, most of these Hakkas remained extremely reluctant to give their representations of this history. As an anthropol…
The Politics and Aesthetics of Place-names in Sarawak
As elements of the political landscape, place-names can express not only the ideological themes of the state but also the political atmosphere and processes by which nation-states make their impression on the landscape. This essay, based on fieldwork conducted in Sarawak, Malaysia, in 1999 and 2000, addresses the nature of place-names in Sarawak and focuses on how certain communities react to the place-names of their villages and townships in the…
Divergent Interpretations of Communism and Currents of Duplicity in Post-Cold War Sarawak
According to the literature on the history of communism in Sarawak, Malaysia, it was the concerted effort of the government in educating the public of the danger within the state that led to the demise of the communist movements. In this article, I argue that the prevailing ideology of the progress of democracy against the evil of communism, on which a large portion of the scholarship on communism in Sarawak is based, needs to be re-examined. Mor…
Representation, Identity and Multiculturalism in Sarawak
There Are ponoks , and There Are ponoks: Traditional Religious Boarding Schools in Thailand's Far-South
There has been a vast corpus of literature on Islam and Muslims since 9/11 that sought to locate the basis of Muslimness in some primordial essentialist cultural value. Since then, many Muslim religious boarding schools in predominantly Muslim countries in South and Southeast Asia have been policed and raided. This essay, based on fieldwork conducted in Thailand’s far-south, hope to provide a different picture from what has commonly been portraye…
The Hakkas of Sarawak: Sacrificial Gifts in Cold War Era Malaysia
This book tells the story of the Hakka Chinese in Sarawak, Malaysia, who were targeted as communists or communist sympathizers because of their Chinese ethnicity the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of these rural Hakkas were relocated into "new villages" surrounded by barbed wire or detained at correction centres, where incarcerated people were understood to be "sacrificial gifts" to the war on communism and to the rule of Malaysia’s judicial-administ…
Staging history for Thailand's far south: Fantasy for a supposedly pliant Muslim community
If the current conflict in Thailand's far south could be interpreted as a revival and full retelling of the 1940s modernist Islamic awakening, why have local Muslim elites and various state agents in the historical present circumvented such a reawakening? Instead, what was broadcast was another history, namely a certain glorious Patani past that supposedly featured a harmonious relationship with Siam. My stipulation of the 1940s Islamic reawakeni…
The Mak Pasar: Engaging with the Difficulty of Reality in a Recurring Conflict-ridden Thailand’s Far South
Pictures of women eking out a living at open-air markets in conflict zones are often used worldwide to elicit sympathy and outrage. Their chilies, synecdoche here for the commodities they sell at the open-air markets, constitutes another stereotypical image of these women living on the margins of the economy. However, what remains missing in most analyses is the focus on the lives and livelihoods of these women who bear the hardships of maintaini…
Can the Malay Muslims be Thai enough in Thailand’s far South
This essay examines the construction of minorities in Thailand, questioning its naturalness, both theoretically and practically. Investigating the plight of Malay Muslim minorities in Thailand's far south can show how minorities are central to the construction of state power in Thailand. This article argues that Siam's annexation of the Sultanate of Patani requires a revision that brings its Malay Muslim subjects centrally and integrally into the…
For We Are Also What We Have Lost
This essay describes and analyzes a historical situation of loss in Thailand's far south since the annexation of the Sultanate of Patani by Siam and its recurring conflict since the late 1940s. What was felt to be lost for my Malay Muslim interlocutors was a history of protracted struggles against a Thai Buddhist kingdom—the implications of which varied widely and were experienced unevenly. For some elites, the present violence reflected the loss…
Asian Studies and History (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works)