“Singapore in the Malay World”
oleh Dr Lily Zubaidah Rahim
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Persatuan Sains Sosial Malaysia dan Fakulti Sastera & Sains Sosial akan menganjurkan satu syarahan yang akan disampaikan oleh Dr Lily Zubaidah Rahim dari University of Sydney, Australia, bertajuk “Singapore in the Malay World”. Syarahan ini adalah berdasarkan buku yang dihasilkan oleh beliau yang diterbitkan oleh Routledge. Waktu, tarikh dan tempat adalah seperti berikut:
Waktu: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Tarikh: 30 Jun (Rabu)
Tempat: Bilik Mesyuarat Dekan 2, Fakulti Sastera & Sains Sosial, Universiti Malaya
Synopsis of the book/lecture
Relations between Singapore and her immediate neighbours have been perenially fraught with tension and misunderstanding. In making sense of this complex relationship, Lily explores the salience of historical animosities, competitive economic pressures, Singapore's security and foreign economic policy orientation and regional outsider complex. She highlights the paradoxical similarities in the nation-building approaches of Singapore and Malaysia and analyses the city-state's weak regional soft power credentials.
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Persatuan Sains Sosial Malaysia dan Fakulti Sastera & Sains Sosial akan menganjurkan satu syarahan yang akan disampaikan oleh Dr Lily Zubaidah Rahim dari University of Sydney, Australia, bertajuk “Singapore in the Malay World”. Syarahan ini adalah berdasarkan buku yang dihasilkan oleh beliau yang diterbitkan oleh Routledge. Waktu, tarikh dan tempat adalah seperti berikut:
Waktu: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Tarikh: 30 Jun (Rabu)
Tempat: Bilik Mesyuarat Dekan 2, Fakulti Sastera & Sains Sosial, Universiti Malaya
Synopsis of the book/lecture
Relations between Singapore and her immediate neighbours have been perenially fraught with tension and misunderstanding. In making sense of this complex relationship, Lily explores the salience of historical animosities, competitive economic pressures, Singapore's security and foreign economic policy orientation and regional outsider complex. She highlights the paradoxical similarities in the nation-building approaches of Singapore and Malaysia and analyses the city-state's weak regional soft power credentials.
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Bio-profile
Lily Zubaidah Rahim is an Associate Professor in Government and International Relations. She lectures on Southeast Asian Politics and Political Islam. 'The Singapore Dilemma: Political and Educational Marginality of the Malay Community', (KL: Oxford University Press, 2001) established her as a leading researcher on political and social developments in Singapore. The book precipitated a public debate on Singapore’s nation-building paradigm particularly after it received prominent coverage in the Malaysian and Singaporean newspapers. The policy significance of 'The Singapore Dilemma' led to its translation in 2004 by the Malaysian National Institute for Translation to the Malay language.
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Lily Zubaidah Rahim is an Associate Professor in Government and International Relations. She lectures on Southeast Asian Politics and Political Islam. 'The Singapore Dilemma: Political and Educational Marginality of the Malay Community', (KL: Oxford University Press, 2001) established her as a leading researcher on political and social developments in Singapore. The book precipitated a public debate on Singapore’s nation-building paradigm particularly after it received prominent coverage in the Malaysian and Singaporean newspapers. The policy significance of 'The Singapore Dilemma' led to its translation in 2004 by the Malaysian National Institute for Translation to the Malay language.
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Building on the themes in 'The Singapore Dilemma', Lily Zubaidah’s second sole-authored book 'Singapore in the Malay World: Building and Breaching Regional Bridges' (London: Routledge, 2009) focuses on Singapore’s mercurial relations with neighbouring Malaysia and Indonesia. She is currently engaged in a global project on gender justice and shariah reforms in Islam.
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A Singaporean national, Lily Zubaidah’s international exposure includes extended periods of teaching and research in Malaysia, Singapore and The Netherlands. Her multidisciplinary research interests have been published in numerous international journals and book chapters. They include an eclectic range spanning from governance in authoritarian states, democratisation, ethnicity, regionalism and political Islam.
