An article has recently been released in a Springer-published book that discusses links between Islam, the environment, and the politics of developments in a Malaysian region.
“Islam and the Environment: The Challenge of Developmental Politics in Malaysia with Special Reference to PAS’s Rule in Kelantan” is the title of the article written by Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid and Mohamad Faizal Abd Matalib.
“Entities of the Malaysian state, belying its moderate and even Islamic pretensions, have hesitated to address environmental issues for fear of ruffling feathers that are potentially damaging to political and economic support of the powers at the federal or state levels of government,” reads part of the abstract of the article which is accessible here.
The article was released online on October 24 and is part of a book titled “Discourses, Agency and Identity in Malaysia”, published by Singapore’s Springer.
According to Springer, the book approaches the study of identity formation and social relations from an interdisciplinary cultural studies perspective, provides empirically rich accounts of how social agency offers alternatives to the dominant national discourses of identity in Malaysia, and contributes to comparative studies of discourse analysis and political culture.
The book, in part, is a section of Asia in Transition book series.
