Getting by : class and state formation among Chinese in Malaysia /

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How do class, ethnicity, gender, and politics interact? In what ways do they constitute everyday life among ethnic minorities? In "Getting By," Donald M. Nonini draws on three decades of research in the region of Penang state in northern West Malaysia, mainly in the city of Bukit Mertajam,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nonini, Donald Macon (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Chinese > Malaysia > Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang) > Politics and government.
Chinese > Malaysia > Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang) > Ethnic identity.
Social classes > Malaysia > Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang)
Nationalism > Malaysia > Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang)
Ethnology > Malaysia > Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Chinese > Ethnic identity
Chinese > Politics and government
Ethnology
Nationalism
Social classes
Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang, Malaysia) > History.
Malaysia > Bukit Mertajam (Pulau Pinang)
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : an historical ethnography of class and state formation
  • Counterinsurgency, silences, forgetting, 1946-1969
  • Boom town in the making, 1978-1980
  • Getting by : the arts of deception and the typical Chinese
  • Banalities of the urban : hegemony or state predation?
  • Class dismissed!
  • Men in motion : the dialectics of disputatiousness and rice-eating money
  • Chinese society as a sheet of loose sand : elite arguments and class discipline in a postcolonial era
  • Subsumption and encompassment : class, state formation and production of urban space, 1980-1997
  • Covert global : exit, alternative sovereignties, being stuck
  • Walking on two roads and jumping airplanes.

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