Dr Ismail Aby Jamal

Dr Ismail Aby Jamal
Born in Batu 10, Kg Lubok Bandan, Jementah, Segamat, Johor

Saturday, January 3, 2009

THE DYING DAYS OF MALAY NATIONALISM

As the world continues to revolve around this demigod called Capitalism, bathed in the glories of a failed Raeganomics and Thatcherism, drowned in a "blue ocean" soaked in blood-red tapestry of ethno-religious-class-based conflicts, and inhabited by a global population of the haves and the have-nots and modern-day indentured servants, I ponder the question of Malay nationalism vis-a-viz post-industrial tribalism and how we can deconstruct ourselves to escape through the walls of the neo-colonial shackle. We must destroy the matrix we have allowed others to construct; these soul cages for each one of us.
These bring me to the question of the dying days of Malay nationalism and its imagined community.

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