Nations-in-renewal and the political production of ethnicity: with references to Malaysia

• Main Author: Ooi , Kee Beng
• Format: Article
• Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2002
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1715/; http://www.ukm.my/sari/index.html

This paper argues that ethnicity results from prolonged political cohesive success. All ethnicities can point to a past whether mythological or historical or probably both, when they were politically and culturally influential. They may think of it as a period of unity, but most importantly, it was...