Gender, Malayness and the Ummah
Cultural Consumption and Malay-Muslim Identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12350751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dahlia Martin (Flinders University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 403-421 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1035-7823 • E-ISSN: 1467-8403 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10357823.2014.929635 |
| OpenAlex | W2072143186 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 28 |
Anxieties over the position of Malay identity have often spilled over into locally-produced popular materials. Such anxieties are reflected particularly in portrayals of Malay-Muslim womanhood. Malay-Muslim women are a significant target audience for these concerns, specifically in their assumedly natural roles as nurturers of a family unit. Despite this focus on Malay-Muslim women, however, theirs is a voice that is rarely heard as Malaysia advances towards an Islamic modernity. This article examines how urban Malay-Muslim women negotiate these tensions in their consumption and interpretation of local popular culture. Borrowing from Michel de Certeau’s framework on everyday resistance, this article argues that these practices are in turn indicative of the interviewees’ desire to be a part of a forward-looking Islamic modernity narrative and global community or ummah, and ultimately leave behind anxieties over Malay identity by choosing to construct their subjectivity in religious rather than ethnic terms
Aesthetics · Art · Construct (python library · Ethnic group · Identity (music · Interpretation (philosophy · Islam · Literature · Malay · Modernity · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
The intimate enemy
Malaysian Cinema, Asian Film
The intimate enemy
Gender and Power in Affluent Asia
The Rey Chow Reader
Building Cultural Nationalism in Malaysia
The Malays
Michel de Certeau and the practice of representation
Politics of Piety
Modern Muslim Identities
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Reclaiming Adat
A History of an Identity, an Identity of a History
Against Multiple Hegemonies
Women, ethnicity and nationalism
The Islamisation of Malaysia
Family Feuds
Envisioning the Nation
The Construction of the Malaysian Malay Middle Class
What is a Malay? situational selection of ethnic identity in a plural society
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |