Harding / Shah Law and Society in Malaysia

Pluralism, Religion and Ethnicity
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-35765-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 258 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Law in Asia

This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary examination of law and legal institutions in Malaysia. It examines legal issues from historical, social, and political perspectives, and discusses the role of law in relation to Malaysian multiculturalism, religion, politics, and society. It shows how the Malaysian legal system is at the heart of debates about how to deal with the country's problems, which include ethnic and religious divisions, uneven and unsustainable development, and political authoritarianism; and it argues that the Malaysian legal system has much to teach other plural polities, nations within the common law tradition, and federal states.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harding, Andrew

Shah, Dian A. H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial Thread No.1

Chapter 1: The Creation of Greater Malaysia: Law, Politics, Ethnicity, and Religion

Kevin Y.L. Tan

Editorial Thread No.2

Chapter 2: Malaysia’s Blocked Social Contract Debate

Rueban Ratna Balasubramaniam

Editorial Thread No.3

Chapter 3: Dimensions of Ketuanan Melayu in the Malaysian Constitutional Framework

Wilson T.V. Tay

Editorial Thread No.4

Chapter 4: ‘Nazrinian’ Monarchy in Malaysia: The Resilience and Revival of a Traditional Institution

Andrew Harding

Editorial Thread No.5

Chapter 5: The Particular in the Universal: Negotiating the Right to Education and Cultural-Linguistic Rights of Minority Children in East Malaysia

Jaclyn L.C. Neo

Editorial Thread No.6

Chapter 6: ‘Legal Pluralism’ in Malaysia: The Case of Iban Native Customary Rights in Sarawak

Yogeswaran Subramaniam

Editorial Thread No.7

Chapter 7: Religion, Conversions, and Custody: Battles in the Malaysian Appellate Courts

Dian A.H. Shah

Editorial Thread No.8

Chapter 8: The Rise of Islamic Sexual Morality and State Power in Malaysia

Tan Beng Hui

Editorial Thread No.9

Chapter 9: Justice and Enforcement Agencies Personnel in Malaysia and their Views about Domestic Violence, Marriage and Religion

Noraida Endut and Intan Hashimah Mohamed Hashim

Editorial Thread No.10

Chapter 10: Political and Religious Hegemony via the Suppression of Expression: Book Banning and Film Censorship in Malaysia

Azmi Sharom and Saw Tiong Guan

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Harding is a Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore.

Dian A. H. Shah is a research fellow at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS), National University of Singapore, and a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, Malaysia.