40 - Imran Shamsunahar - Troubled Tropical Powerhouse: Malaysia’s Past, Present and Future

2:13 General information about Malaysia: history, politics, economics
4:36 Demographics and religion
8:03 Malaysian independence
9:15 The history of Malaysian party politics since independence
10:10 The evolution of Malay nationalism and the rise of Islamist politics
15:06 Anwar Ibrahim
16:21 Sodomy laws and gay rights in Malaysia
17:38 The decriminalisation of homosexuality in India
20:18 Changes to Islam within Malaysia: from tropical Islam to a more austere & authoritarian form
27:05 The controversy around the teaching of khat (Malay-Arabic calligraphy)
29:30 Zakir Naik’s accusing Hindu and Chinese Malaysians of disloyalty and the resulting controversy
33:20 Is there a ghettoisation of different communities? The geographical breakdown by race.
34:18 Relative prosperity of the different racial communities
40:47 The Malaysian economy and the temptation towards authoritarianism
43:48 Free speech, the media and Malaysian civil society
47:49 Arabisation
51:20 A new Orientalism on the part of Westerners
59:58 Legal systems in Malaysia
1:02:08 Intercommunity relations
1:03:46 Women in Malaysia
1:05:35 Imran’s predictions for the future of the country

For Imran’s articles, see here:
https://areomagazine.com/author/imranshamsunahar/;
https://quillette.com/author/imran-shamsunahar/;
https://www.scmp.com/author/imran-shamsunahar;
https://nationalinterest.org/profile/imran-shamsunahar

Imran’s contributions to the War is Boring blog can be found here:
https://warisboring.com/author/imran-shamsunahar/

See also https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Racial-divisions-of-Malaysia-s-politics-harm-whole-country

We refer specifically to this article in the podcast: https://quillette.com/2018/01/31/neo-orientalism-left/

Follow Imran on Twitter here: @AsiaAnalyst47