Rusaslina Idrus
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 642041 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rusaslina Idrus |
| PRENOMES | Rusaslina |
| SOBRENOME | Idrus |
| ASSINATURA | IDRUS R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Malaya |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6247-498X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Challenges in Agrobiodiversity Maintenance in Southwest Bangladesh
Guided by the intersectional approach, the objective of the paper is to engage gender as an analytical variable across class and spatial inequalities to explore agrobiodiversity maintenance. The paper dwells on challenges faced, and factors influencing agrobiodiversity choices and its maintenance. Data was collected from a survey of 343 households, 14 focus group discussions conducted in seven villages, and in-depth interviews with 30 research pa…
Durian imaginaries
Countering durian plantationocene visuality and the erasure of natureculture histories in Malaysia
Large-scale durian plantations are now a major threat, causing deforestation and displacing the Orang Asli, the aboriginal peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, from their customary lands. This paper focuses on visual representations of the durian plantations and/or forest to discuss two contrasting views of the landscape. We analyse durian plantation corporate investment videos wooing public investors and videos of the Temiar Orang Asli's resistance a…
Engaged Social Anthropology and Indigenous Land Claims in Malaysia
The use of litigation has become an important strategy for customary land claims for the Orang Asli, the aboriginal people of Peninsular Malaysia. Increasing displacement from their customary territories, and having exhausted other official avenues, the Orang Asli are resorting to legal measures to protect their rights. Several landmark cases in the Malaysian courts favouring Orang Asli rights have given the Indigenous People hope in the legal sy…
Views from the Ground
This roundtable took place at the end of a two-day workshop, \n‘Unpacking Indigeneity in Southeast Asia’, which was held on \n25–26 April 2019 at the University of Malaya. It was convened \nby the editors of this special section, Rusaslina Idrus and Liana Chua, as part of their British Academy/Newton Mobility Grant collaboration (NMGR1180433
Introduction
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Competing for the ‘Indigenous’ Slot
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Indigenous resilience and the Covid-19 response
In this situation report, we discuss the response of the Orang Asli, the aboriginal people of Peninsular Malaysia, to COVID-19, focusing specifically on the community’s actions to protect themselves from the coronavirus during the government-imposed lockdown. Drawing from an Indigenous understanding of illness and health, the Orang Asli took the threat of the pandemic seriously and responded with proactive steps to keep their community safe, whic…
The Refugee Festival
The Refugee Festival opens a space for "power and hope" for refugees in Malaysia. Moving away from narratives of refugees as victims, this article highlights refugee practices of autonomy and freedom through the marginal spaces of the Refugee Festival. Within the context of the pandemic and rising xenophobia in Malaysia, the festival takes on an even more important significance for the community. Through the festival, the participants disrupted n…
Multicultural Hang Tuah
The legend of Hang Tuah plays a prominent role in the official Malay-centric history of Malaysia. Hang Tuah, a warrior of the 15th-century Malaccan royal court, represents the perfect Malay subject and, to this day, continues to be an icon for Malay nationalism. In the cybersphere, there are heated discussions of an alleged government conspiracy to conceal the ‘true’ identity of this Malay folk hero. According to a myth circulating in the cybersp…
Temiar Religion, 1964–2012
Humanizing the Sacred
Humanizing Sacred: Sisters in Islam and Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia. by Azza Basarudin. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016. Softcover: 330pp. Sisters in Islam (SIS) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that advocates for Muslim women's rights in Malaysia. The NGO works within an Islamic framework, reinterpreting sacred texts through a feminist lens. Members of SIS have been labelled as deviants by Islamic aut…
Submitting to God
From Wards to Citizens
In recent years, indigenous peoples in Malaysia have begun to pursue a new strategy in claiming property rights: they are turning to the legal system, using lawsuits to make their claims. In this article, I suggest that this changed approach marks an important turning point in the Orang Asli-Malaysian state relationship. The legal arena reframes the narrative of struggle from one of “development failure” to one of rights and entitlement. I explor…
From Wards to Citizens
In recent years, indigenous peoples in Malaysia have begun to pursue a new strategy in claiming property rights: they are turning to the legal system, using lawsuits to make their claims. In this article, I suggest that this changed approach marks an important turning point in the Orang Asli-Malaysian state relationship. The legal arena reframes the narrative of struggle from one of “development failure” to one of rights and entitlement. I explor…
Introduction
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Competing for the ‘Indigenous’ Slot
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Countering durian plantationocene visuality and the erasure of natureculture histories in Malaysia
Large-scale durian plantations are now a major threat, causing deforestation and displacing the Orang Asli, the aboriginal peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, from their customary lands. This paper focuses on visual representations of the durian plantations and/or forest to discuss two contrasting views of the landscape. We analyse durian plantation corporate investment videos wooing public investors and videos of the Temiar Orang Asli's resistance a…
Humanizing the Sacred
Humanizing Sacred: Sisters in Islam and Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia. by Azza Basarudin. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016. Softcover: 330pp. Sisters in Islam (SIS) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that advocates for Muslim women's rights in Malaysia. The NGO works within an Islamic framework, reinterpreting sacred texts through a feminist lens. Members of SIS have been labelled as deviants by Islamic aut…
From Wards to Citizens
In recent years, indigenous peoples in Malaysia have begun to pursue a new strategy in claiming property rights: they are turning to the legal system, using lawsuits to make their claims. In this article, I suggest that this changed approach marks an important turning point in the Orang Asli-Malaysian state relationship. The legal arena reframes the narrative of struggle from one of “development failure” to one of rights and entitlement. I explor…
Submitting to God
Multicultural Hang Tuah
The legend of Hang Tuah plays a prominent role in the official Malay-centric history of Malaysia. Hang Tuah, a warrior of the 15th-century Malaccan royal court, represents the perfect Malay subject and, to this day, continues to be an icon for Malay nationalism. In the cybersphere, there are heated discussions of an alleged government conspiracy to conceal the ‘true’ identity of this Malay folk hero. According to a myth circulating in the cybersp…
Temiar Religion, 1964–2012
Humanizing the Sacred
Humanizing Sacred: Sisters in Islam and Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia. by Azza Basarudin. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016. Softcover: 330pp. Sisters in Islam (SIS) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that advocates for Muslim women's rights in Malaysia. The NGO works within an Islamic framework, reinterpreting sacred texts through a feminist lens. Members of SIS have been labelled as deviants by Islamic aut…
Indigenous resilience and the Covid-19 response
In this situation report, we discuss the response of the Orang Asli, the aboriginal people of Peninsular Malaysia, to COVID-19, focusing specifically on the community’s actions to protect themselves from the coronavirus during the government-imposed lockdown. Drawing from an Indigenous understanding of illness and health, the Orang Asli took the threat of the pandemic seriously and responded with proactive steps to keep their community safe, whic…
The Refugee Festival
The Refugee Festival opens a space for "power and hope" for refugees in Malaysia. Moving away from narratives of refugees as victims, this article highlights refugee practices of autonomy and freedom through the marginal spaces of the Refugee Festival. Within the context of the pandemic and rising xenophobia in Malaysia, the festival takes on an even more important significance for the community. Through the festival, the participants disrupted n…
Views from the Ground
This roundtable took place at the end of a two-day workshop, \n‘Unpacking Indigeneity in Southeast Asia’, which was held on \n25–26 April 2019 at the University of Malaya. It was convened \nby the editors of this special section, Rusaslina Idrus and Liana Chua, as part of their British Academy/Newton Mobility Grant collaboration (NMGR1180433
Introduction
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Competing for the ‘Indigenous’ Slot
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Engaged Social Anthropology and Indigenous Land Claims in Malaysia
The use of litigation has become an important strategy for customary land claims for the Orang Asli, the aboriginal people of Peninsular Malaysia. Increasing displacement from their customary territories, and having exhausted other official avenues, the Orang Asli are resorting to legal measures to protect their rights. Several landmark cases in the Malaysian courts favouring Orang Asli rights have given the Indigenous People hope in the legal sy…
Countering durian plantationocene visuality and the erasure of natureculture histories in Malaysia
Large-scale durian plantations are now a major threat, causing deforestation and displacing the Orang Asli, the aboriginal peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, from their customary lands. This paper focuses on visual representations of the durian plantations and/or forest to discuss two contrasting views of the landscape. We analyse durian plantation corporate investment videos wooing public investors and videos of the Temiar Orang Asli's resistance a…
Challenges in Agrobiodiversity Maintenance in Southwest Bangladesh
Guided by the intersectional approach, the objective of the paper is to engage gender as an analytical variable across class and spatial inequalities to explore agrobiodiversity maintenance. The paper dwells on challenges faced, and factors influencing agrobiodiversity choices and its maintenance. Data was collected from a survey of 343 households, 14 focus group discussions conducted in seven villages, and in-depth interviews with 30 research pa…
Durian imaginaries
Asian Studies and History (11 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · History (6 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Indigenous (5 obras) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (5 obras) · Archaeology (4 obras)