Failed Asian Values Subjects and Neoliberal State Discourse in Malaysia and Singapore
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3618278 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mohan Ambikaipaker (0000-0003-0197-7916, Tulane University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-6868 • E-ISSN: 1469-9540 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07256868.2014.990360 |
| OpenAlex | W1977555930 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 30 |
Since the 1990s, and currently in state discourses of free-market integration, ruling Southeast Asian elites have deployed the narrative of Asian cultural ascendance – ‘Asian values’ discourse — as an explanation for Southeast Asian developmental exceptionalism. Ruling elites continue to push for a social consensus that mobilizes neoliberal capitalist subject-formation as the proper postcolonial nation-building teleology. However, my reading of the widely performed contemporary plays, Family, and Ang Tau Mui, A Modern Woman by highly acclaimed Malaysian-Chinese playwright, Leow Puay Tin, examines how the Asian values discourse is interrogated and disrupted through subaltern historiographical interventions that remember colonial-capitalist subjugation, social mobility failure and class fragmentation that are otherwise evacuated in the dominant retelling of Southeast Asian ethnic Chinese success stories
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2019 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |