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Malaysia? Young people and everyday multiculturalism in multiracialized Malaysia

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ID2148030
AuthorsAnita Harris (0000-0003-0865-8280, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia, corresponding author), Alan Han (0000-0003-1369-9052, Independent scholar, Toronto, Canada)
Year2020
Volume43
Issue5
Pages816-834
Publication date2020-04-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2019.1580379
OpenAlexW2922072478
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited22

In Malaysia over the last decade, a more meaningful form of multiculturalism beyond mere tolerance has been encouraged through the 1Malaysia initiative of the Najib government. This paper explores how a framework of everyday multiculturalism can enhance our understanding of the ways Malaysian youth negotiate formal injunctions to build unity in diversity while an inequitable multiracialism persists both structurally and informally in Malaysian society. We illustrate how an everyday multiculturalism approach reveals on-the-ground processes of the (re)production of unequal difference and ordinary possibilities for interethnic conviviality

Common ground · Diversity (politics · Everyday life · Government (linguistics · Linguistics · Multiculturalism · Negotiation · Pedagogy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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Unique citing works7
Citations per year1,17
Citation span2020 - 2026 (7)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 7

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