Social and Political Deglobalisation

Khoo Ying Hooi is an associate professor at Universiti Malaya. She specialises in human rights, power politics, democratisation and civil society in Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia and Timor-Leste. Kavitha Ganesan is a senior lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Sabah, with a primary interest in Malaysian literature in English, specifically female life-writings and postcolonial indigenous studies.Anantha Raman Govindasamy is an associate professor in politics at Universiti Malaysia Sabah. His research focuses on Malaysian politics, specifically the ethnic Indian minority and East Malaysian politics.

• Part I: Deglobalisation in Malaysia as a subject of theoretical study.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Reconsidering (de)globalisation in the aftermath of Covid-19.- Chapter 2: Political and socioeconomic intersections in a deglobalising Malaysia.- Chapter 3: Malaysia’s defensive priority dilemma: Prioritising military strategy amidst Covid-19-mediated deglobalisation.- Chapter 4: An antidote to deglobalisation: Conceptualising youth activism in Malaysia.- Part II: Deglobalisation’s biopolitical implications for Malaysians.- Chapter 5: Bio-constitutionalism, power relations and endemic inequalities: Implications of the commodification of the right to health in a deglobalising Malaysia.- Chapter 6: Labour issues in Malaysia amidst deglobalisation.- Chapter 7: Mediated xenophobia and Covid-19: A critical discourse analysis of media representations of migrant workers in Malaysia.- Chapter 8: Political and social deglobalisation in Malaysia: Discrimination against migrants and refugees during the Covid-19 pandemic.- Part III: Deglobalisation in Sabah.- Chapter 9: Skewed priorities in Sabah’s food policies: (Post-)pandemic mediated deglobalisation and food security.- Chapter 10: Digital poverty and inequality during the Covid-19 pandemic in Keningau, Sabah.- Chapter 11: Lockdowns and food security: Embodying native wisdom in rice production among the indigenous Lundayeh in Sabah