Selected Publications

Edited book

2003
Ariel Heryanto and Sumit K. Mandal, eds. Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Comparing Indonesia and Malaysia. London: RoutledgeCurzon.

Articles / Chapters

2011
"The Significance of the Rediscovery of Arabs in the Malay World," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 296-311.

2009      
“Challenging inequality in a modern Islamic idiom: Social ferment amongst Arabs in early 20th-century Java.” In Eric Tagliacozzo, ed., Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement and the Longue Durée. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 156-75.

2008
“The National Cultural Policy and contestation over Malaysian identity.” In Joan Nelson, Jacob  Meerman and Abdul Rahman Embong, eds., Globalisation and National Autonomy: The Experience of Malaysia, Singapore: ISEAS, pp. 273-300.

2008       
“Strangers Who Are Not Foreign: Pramoedya’s Disturbing Language on the Chinese in Indonesia.” In Pramoedya Ananta Toer, The Chinese in Indonesia. Translated from Indonesian into English by Max Lane. Singapore: Select Books, pp. 35-54. (Publication of the original in English whose translation in Indonesian appeared in 1998).

2007       
“Indianness in Malaysia: Between Racialised Representations and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music.” In Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 46-67.

2004      
“Transethnic Solidarities, Racialisation, and Social Equality.” In E. Terence Gomez, ed., The State of Malaysia: Ethnicity, Equity and Reform. London: RoutledgeCurzon, pp. 49-78.

2003       
“Creativity in Protest: Arts Workers and the Recasting of Politics and Society in Indonesia and Malaysia.” In Ariel Heryanto and Sumit K. Mandal, eds., Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Comparing Indonesia and Malaysia. London: RoutledgeCurzon, pp. 178-210.

2002      
“Forging a Modern Identity in Java in the Early Twentieth Century.” In Huub de Jonge and Nico Kaptein, eds., Transcending Borders: Arabs, Politics, Trade and Islam in Southeast Asia. Leiden: KITLV, pp. 163-84.

2001      
“Boundaries and Beyond: Wither the Cultural Bases for Political Community in Malaysia?” In Robert Hefner, ed., The Politics of Multi-Culturalism: Pluralism and Citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 141-64.

2000      
“Reconsidering Cultural Globalisation: The English Language in Malaysia.” Third World Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 1001-1012.

1997      
“Natural Leaders of Native Muslims: Arab Ethnicity and Politics in Java under Dutch Rule.” In U. Freitag and W.G. Clarence-Smith, eds., Hadrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s‑1960s. Leiden: Brill, pp. 185-98.