In the former British colony of Malaya, communism is a controversial subject that often invites significant scrutiny from government officials and pro-British scholars who describes the radical movement as a foreign conspiracy to dominate the small Southeast Asian nation. The pr…
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This is a historical and musicological inquiry into how rural performers, at the confluence of two distinctly different cultural and linguistic areas, created traditional repertoires from multiple sources. It examines the migration of the well-known ronggeng social dance music o…
Objective. The objective of this research is to examine whether blogs can foster political mobilization among minority populations, using the minority Indians in Malaysia as the context. In particular, this research studies the characteristics of blogs from a non-Western perspec…
This thesis uses a typological framework to explain why the core functions of economic activity vary so significantly from state to state. I explain this variation by linking large structural factors to micro-level decisions. The typological framework I employ examines the inter…
Very little is known about how teachers' conceptualizations of digital technology and their uses of the technology evolve and relate. Yet knowing about and understanding teachers' conceptions and uses of digital technology are essential for learning how teachers integrate it eff…
This study explores the experience of becoming English teachers in two multicultural countries through narratives from preservice teachers in the United States and Malaysia. In general, the United States and Malaysia share similarities in the demographic landscapes whereby both …
This dissertation is a study about belonging among the Fatanis who are caught between two places, namely Makkah and Jawi. Using historical and ethnographic data collected during two years of transnational fieldwork in Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Malaysia, this dissertation shows…
Adapted from the conspiracies and events surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which presumably disappeared over the Southern Indian Ocean, this play examines the emotional, mythological, and political ramifications of loss. By exploring the bottom of the ocean, the characte…
This study is an exploration of the English language learning experiences of four Malaysians who were students in the U.S. at the time of the research. They represent the three main ethnic groups in Malaysia, namely the Malays, Chinese, and Indians. The objectives of this study …
This dissertation is an ethnographic study about ecological displacement, affective encounters, the work of care, and human and animal subjectivities involved in rehabilitating endangered orangutans in Sarawak, Malaysia. Using participant-observation, interviews, archival resear…
In 1972, the twenty-three-year-old narrator and her physician husband, married barely seven months, move to Malaysia to do research at the national leprosy control center. Sponsored by an American foundation, they will work at a British research facility. The day they arrive, th…
This dissertation explores border relationships, conflicts and cooperation between Thailand and its four contiguous neighbors (Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia and Myanmar) from 1973 to 2011. The dissertation probes the following questions: What causes border conflict? Why do some of th…
Flooding is the most common natural disaster in Malaysia, as a result of heavy rainfall. Malaysia is located in the equatorial zone and experiences a tropical climate with two seasons classified as the Northeast (November to May) and Southwest (May to September) monsoons. Both m…
Malaysia has been moving from an agricultural, resource extraction, and manufacturing based economy in the 1980s toward a service-oriented, post-industrial, knowledge-based economy, with greater emphasis on skilled human capital, technology, and intangibles. Assessing Malaysia's…
This study investigated quality management practices implementation in Malaysian hotels, using the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria, from hotel quality manager (HQM) and employee perspectives. HQM experience and perception regarding the challenges encountered, st…
Teachers should be critical thinking agents who guide students to become better critical thinkers through teaching strategies (Halpern, 1999). The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which polytechnic lecturers in Malaysia incorporate critical thinking into th…
This dissertation focuses upon peripatetic, godly and technologically advanced Muslim miracle-workers or pawangs who operated upon and were pivotal to rice, mining, game and armed frontiers in 19th and early 20th century Malaya. It is written with an understanding that a study o…
This dissertation argues that missionary religion played a role in the development of historical globalization, defined as an increase in global flows leading to global interdependence and the sense of the world as one. It asserts that globalization, far from being a contemporar…
This thesis examines the 1Malaysia campaign, an initiative by the Malaysian state that seeks to address ethnic and religious divisions and economic inequality in the country to for continued political stability and economic growth. This campaign seeks to promote unity among the …