Tamils and the haunting of justice : history and recognition in Malaysia's plantations /
In 2006 dejected members of the Bukit Jalil Estate community faced eviction from their homes in Kuala Lumpur where they had lived for generations. City officials classified plantation residents as squatters and, unaware of years of toil, attachment to the land, and past official promises, questioned...
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
2014.
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Table des matières:
- Introduction
- An emergent betrayal: Tamils and the development of Selangor's plantations
- Plantation fragments
- Tapping memories: plantations are not a workplace
- Interruptions, insurrections, strategies
- The locus of God's power: the faith of spirit and its incomprehensible shattering
- Ethnic riots and other myths
- Flats
- The law's betrayal
- Hindraf and the haunting of justice.