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Melbourne Asia Review is a research-based publication of the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.

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Reclaiming positive masculinity among the Indigenous peoples of Malaysia

  • A/Prof. Clare Suet Ching Chan,

Folktales continue to provide storytellers with a dynamic foundation to renew, reinterpret, and transmit cultural values.

Global environmental problems: Reflections on selected Malaysian contemporary artworks

  • Prof. Gaik Cheng Khoo,

Malaysian art is gaining international recognition for its focus on climate change and as a tool for social change.

‘A Malaysian Ecocriticism Reader: Considerations of Nature, Culture, Place & Identities’, eds. Agnes S.K. Yeow & Wai Liang Tham

  • Dr Simon Soon,

This book reminds us that the stories we tell about nature are inextricable from how we imagine the future of culture.

In a sweltering Kuala Lumpur cell, media freedom became personal

  • Kean Wong,

Journalist Kean Wong reflects on media freedom in the context of his arrest over a book he had edited on Malaysia’s politics.

The Contradictions in Anwar’s Civilising Mission in Malaysia

  • Dr S. Munirah Alatas,

Many are missing out on Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s vision for inclusion and prosperity while political allies are indulged.