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Houses in MotionThe Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia$
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Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia

Richard Baxstrom

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9780804758918

Published to Stanford Scholarship Online: June 2013

DOI: 10.11126/stanford/9780804758918.001.0001

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The Malayan Emergency, Islamic Reform, and the Trajectory of Urban Governmentality in Kuala Lumpur

The Malayan Emergency, Islamic Reform, and the Trajectory of Urban Governmentality in Kuala Lumpur

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(p.54) 2 The Malayan Emergency, Islamic Reform, and the Trajectory of Urban Governmentality in Kuala Lumpur
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Houses in Motion
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Stanford University Press
DOI:10.11126/stanford/9780804758918.003.0003

This chapter focuses on two different historical procedures that changed the character of governance and urban life in Malaysia. The first historical procedure occurred between 1948 and 1960, specifically the state of emergency that occurred within Malaya. The second historical procedure relates to the ever-changing efforts made throughout the twentieth century, which aimed to make Islam a central feature in public life. This chapter also gives a new understanding of the conflicting responses of the Brickfields community and the state towards the issues of moral good and urban order.

Keywords:   governance, urban life, state of emergency, Islam, moral good, urban order

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