Raced-Gendered Capitalism in Malaysia

When Empires Meet the Everyday
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-27919-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

Raced-Gendered Capitalism in Malaysia explores how the international and the everyday interact in constituting and sustaining the developmental state in Malaysia as a specific form of raced-gendered capitalism. Juxtaposed with a methodological nationalist, male-elitist, and “plan rational” conception, it provides a reading of the developmental state in Malaysia as a raced-gendered capitalist project navigating the international dynamics of the colonial-imperial capitalist world-system.

The book draws out the everyday lives, labour, and households of non-elite Malay women as central to the processes and politics of raced capitalist reproduction. First, it reconstructs state-institutional accounts of raced capitalism in Malaysia to incorporate the gendered lives and labour of households. Then, by embracing oral history as a feminist method, it offers a reinterpretation of the racialised developmental state project through the textured rhythms of Malay women’s everyday lives. The book advances an empirical account that foregrounds gender in more foundational ways to understand raced capitalist development on the periphery of the global economy.

By bringing feminist International Political Economy into closer dialogue with the theory of uneven and combined development (UCD), Raced-Gendered Capitalism in Malaysia engages students, academics and researchers interested in critical feminist approaches that centre the Global South as a paradigm for contesting Eurocentric accounts of global-racial capitalism.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Choong, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: When Empires Meet the Everyday  Chapter 1: Anti-colonial Raced-Gendered Capitalism in Malaysia  Chapter 2: Postcolonial Development of Bumiputera Capitalism  Chapter 3: Everyday Life on the Periphery Chapter 4: Keluarga in the Making Chapter 5: Politics of Purifying Capital  Chapter 6: Milking the Labour of Suri Rumah  Conclusion: Resisting Empires in the Everyday  Appendix I: Timeline of Key Events

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Choong completed his PhD at the University of Warwick, where he was a recipient of the Chancellor’s International Scholarship. In 2023, he was selected as the winner of the Colonial, Postcolonial, and Decolonial (CPD) Early Career Researcher Paper Prize organised by the CPD British International Studies Association Working Group. His thesis received an honourable mention for the Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize in 2026. Christopher holds an MSc in Inequalities and Social Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London, where he was awarded the Atkinson Prize; an MSc in Development Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; and a BSc in Economics from the University of Malaya. Christopher is currently Deputy Director of Research at the Khazanah Research Institute, and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity at the International Inequalities Institute, LSE. In recognition of his academic and professional achievements, he is appointed as Adjunct Associate Professor with the Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development, Sunway University.