Malaysia and the Development Process: Globalization, Knowledge Transfers and Postcolonial Dilemmas
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Drawing on recent deconstructions in anthropology, postcolonial studies, and critical sociology, Malaysia and the Development Process situates and explores the phenomenon of international knowledge transfers within the context of globalization. Based on primary and secondary research, and a series of 'experiential' reflections, fieldwork was conducted in two foreign electronics multinationals and a variety of public and semi-public institutions. The findings reassess issues of knowledge, power, subjectivity and agency, and the relations between the West and the non-West, as they are negotiated between and within multinational workplaces and local agencies in Malaysia.
Ch. 1Introduction1Ch. 2Institutional ethnography and multivocality19Ch. 3Modernity and the international management gaze37Ch. 4Towards Vision 2020 and the new Malay[sian]67Ch. 5Quality in the service of development97Ch. 6Mediating culture and mediation by culture133Ch. 7Counter-representations and negotiations for voice157Ch. 8Discussion and conclusion187
