Wan Zawawi Ibrahim
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Academic Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Second Upper (Social Anthropology), Monash University, 1971
- PhD (Social Anthropology), Monash University, 1978
Awards, Honours and Achievements
- 1966 : Old Ismailan Award for best overall outgoing student of the year, Sultan Ismail College, Kota Baru.
- 1967–1971 : Australian Colombo Plan Award for graduate and postgraduate studies in Australia.
- 1983 : Research Fellowship Award, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
- 1988–1989 : Toyota Foundation International Research Grant Award.
- 1991 : Research Fellowship Award, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.
- 1993 : Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award (Social Sciences and Humanities).
- 1995-1996 : Fellowship of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Japan.
- 1997–1998 : Sumitomo Foundation Research Grant Award, Japan.
- 1997 : Award of Excellence (Anugerah Perkhidmatan Cemerlang), University of Malaya, for 1996.
- 2000 : Southeast Asia–Canada Consortium for Trade and Human Rights Award for the Advancement of Human Dignity in Malaysia.
- 2000–2001 : Toyota Foundation Grant.
Current Research Projects
- Radicalisation, Secularism and the Governance of Religion: Bringing together European and Asian Perspectives (GREASE). Sponsored by EU, HQ University of Europe Institute, Florence, Italy. Research is on a Malaysian case study, affiliated with SIRD, Malaysia.
- Islamic Cinema in Malaysia & Indonesia A comparative perspective.
- Youth and Popular Culture in Brunei.
- Discourses, Agency and Identities in Malaysia.
Completed Research Projects
- 1971–1975 Malay Peasants in Plantation Society, Terengganu. PhD Research Project, sponsored by Monash University Postgraduate Research Grant and Colombo Plan, Australia.
- 1982–1983 Ideology and Status of Rural Malay Women, Kanita, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
- 1986–1987 From Fisherman to Grower-Curer Tobacco Farmers in Marang, Terengganu, Vote F. Grant, University of Malaya.
- 1987 Malay Cultural Values and Economic Behaviour. Part of research project: ‘Bumiputera Business Participation and Performance in the Food Processing and Construction Industries in Peninsular Malaysia’, Coordinated by Abdul Manaf Said and Salleh Ismail, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya.
- 1988–1989 Malay and Immigrant Labour in East Coast Plantation Society, Toyota Foundation International Research Grant.
- 1990–1991 Impact of Regional Development on Indigenous Tribal Minorities in Pahang Tenggara. IDRC, Canada and Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Malaya Research Project.
- 1994–1996 Developmentalism and the Marginalisation of Indigenous Communities in Urban Peripheries of Selangor. Partly funded by IRPA Grant on ‘Marginalised Communities’ Research Project.
- 1996–1998 Social Hierarchies in Rural and Urban Malaysian Society. With Timo Kortteinen, University of Helsinki, funded by the Academy of Finland.
- 1996–1997 Land and Forestry Resources of Tribal People. Coordinator of project funded by Rockefeller Brothers Grant.
- 1997–1998 Community Development/Participation in the Malaysian Wetlands, Tasek Bera. Wetlands International Malaysia.
- 1997–1998 Comparison of Malaysian and Japanese Wetlands with Emphasis on Community Development and Environment Conservation Strategies. Funded by Sumitomo Foundation, Japan.
- 1998–1999 Human Rights and Business in Southeast Asia. With Michel Dion, Sherbrooke University, Canada. Funded by CIDA.
- 1999–2000 Reviewing Penan Development in Sarawak. With Peter Kedit as Project Leader, sponsored by Sarawak State Government.
- 1999 Hidden Voices Project (narrations of AIDS by people living with AIDS, Malaysian’s experience). With Marina Mahathir, sponsored by Malaysian AIDS Council.
- 1999–2000 Exploring the Social Narratives and Culturalscape of the Sabah Crocker Range People-Environment Relations: An Anthropological and Audio-Visual Documentation. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
- 2000–2001 A Comparative Study of Identity and Empowerment of Indigenous Minorities in the Southeast Asian Nation-States: Malaysian and Indonesian Case Studies, Toyota Foundation Research Grant.
- 2002–2005 Identity and Multiculturalism in Sarawak. Initiator of a book/research project involving local and international scholars.
- 2003–2004 Iban Popular Music in Sarawak as Industry and Identity in the Context of the Malaysian Nation-State. Project with Mohd Fadzil Abd Rahman, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
- 2003–2004 Ageing in Sarawak: Impact, Needs and Emerging Issues. Sarawak State Government Project headed by Spencer Empading.
- 2004–2005 The Journey and Works of a Malaysian Impressionist Painter, Razak Abdullah.
- 2006 Popular Culture and Islam in Malaysia: Nasyid Era Baru. Institute of Malay World and Civilisation (ATMA), Universiti Kebangsaaan Malaysia.
- 2006– New Malaysian Cinema on Issues of Identity, Malayness, Gender and Multiculturalism.
- 2007 Blogging and Democratisation in Malaysia. A book/research project (with Jun-E. Tan).
- 2007– Genesis and Development of Nasyid New Era in Malaysia: Islamic Popular Culture in the era of Globalisation. Sponsored by FRGS.
- 2008– Profiling Contemporary Malaysian Art from the Aliya and Farouk Khan Collection. Advisor and research team member headed by Hasnul Jamal Saidon, Director of Tuanku Fauziah Muzeum and Gallery, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
- 2009– Multiculturalism and Popular Culture – Malaysia and Other Multiethnic Societies
Publications (as Zawawi Ibrahim)
Books
Zawawi Ibrahim & M. S. NoorShah (2012). Masyarakat Penan dan Impian Pembangunan: Satu Himpunan Naratif Keterpeminggiran dan Jatidiri (Penan Society and its Development Imaginings: A Narrative Collection on Marginalisation and Identity). Petaling Jaya: SIRD.
Zawawi Ibrahim & Jun-E Tan (2008). Blogging and Democratization in Malaysia: A New Civil Society in the Making. Petaling Jaya: Strategic Development and Research Development Centre.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2001). Voices from the Crocker Range Indigenous Communities Sabah: Social Narratives of Transition in Tambunan and Its Neighbours. Kuching: Institute of East Asian Studies, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1998). The Malay Labourer: By the Window of Capitalism. Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1995). Popular Culture at the Crossroads: Malay Contemporary Music (An Analysis of Creativity and the Industry). Kuala Lumpur: Academy of Malay Studies, University of Malaya.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1995). Regional Development in Rural Malaysia and the ‘Tribal Question’. Hull: Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Hull University.
Edited Books
Victor King, Zawawi Ibrahim, Nur Hasharina Hassan (2017) (Eds.). Borneo Studies in History, Society and Culture. Singapore: Springer.
Paul Carnegie, Victor King, Zawawi Ibrahim (2016) (Eds.). Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Springer.
Zawawi Ibrahim (Ed.) (2008). Representation, Identity and Multiculturalism in Sarawak, Kajang: Malaysian Association of Social Science and Kuching, Dayak Cultural Foundation.
Zawawi Ibrahim (Ed.) (2001). TUNTUT: Kumpulan Cerpen Orang Asli (A Collection of Orang Asli Short Stories). Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Zawawi Ibrahim & Marina Mahathir (Eds.) (1999). Hidden Voices: True Malaysian Experiences of AIDS. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian AIDS Council. [Malay version: Suara-Suara Terpendam].
Zawawi Ibrahim (Ed.) (1998). Cultural Contestations: Mediating Identities in a Changing Malaysian Society. London: ASEAN Academic Press.
Zawawi Ibrahim (Ed.) (1996). Kami Bukan Anti-Pembangunan: Bicara Orang Asli Menuju Wawasan 2020 [We are not Anti-Development: Discourse of the Malaysian Indigenous People Towards Vision 2020]. Bangi: Malaysian Association of the Social Science (PSSM).
Journals
Zawawi Ibrahim & Hongxuan Lin (forthcoming). 'Penan Storytelling as Indigenous Counter-narrations of Malaysian State Developmentalism'. POSITIONS USA Cultural Studies Journal.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2018). ‘Indigenising the Discourse on Malayness and Malay Underdevelopment’. International Journal of Trend in Research and Development, Vol. 5(4). ISSN: 2394-9333. (Journal Link).
Zawawi Ibrahim (2017). 'Introduction: Dominant Discourses in the Asian Context'. Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context, Vol. 10, No. 2.
Zawawi Ibrahim & Amalina Timbang (2017). ’Malay Metalheads Situating Metal Music Culture in Brunei’. Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context Vol. 10, No. 2.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2016). ‘Disciplining Rock Music and Identity Contestations: Hybridisation, Islam and New Genres in Contemporary Malaysian Popular Music’, SITUATIONS, Cultural Studies in the AsianContext, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 21-47.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2015). ‘From a World System to a Social Science Knowledge ‘Scape’ Perspective: Anthropological Fieldworking and Transnationalizing Theory-making in the Periphery’ Journal of Glocal Studies, No. 2 pp. 45-68.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2015). (in Vietnamese) BỐN THẾ HỆ NHÂN HỌC NGHIÊN CỨU VỀ NÔNG DÂN MALAY)(Four Generations of Anthropological Research on Malay Peasants), Review of Social Sciences Ho Chi Minh City, The Monthly Review, Vol. 1(197), pp. 96-117.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2015). ‘From a World System to a Social Science Knowledge ‘Scape’ Perspective: Anthropological Fieldworking and Transnationalizing Theory-making in the Periphery’, Journal of Glocal Studies, No. 2, pp. 45-68.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2015). ‘From Island to Nation-state Formations and Developmentalism: Penan Story-telling as Narratives of ‘territorialising space’ and Reclaiming Stewardship’, International Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 1-15
Zawawi Ibrahim (2014). Commentary: ‘‘Rethinking modernity and capitalism: Add context and stir’ by Professor Jan Nederveen, in SOCOPEDIA COLLOQUIUM,ISA pp. 1-5.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2010). The Anthropology of the Malay peasantry: Critical Reflections on Colonial and Indigenous Scholarship. Asian Journal of Social Science, 36: 5-36.
Zawawi Ibrahim & Sharifah Zalina (2009). Environment and social science perspectives in Malaysia. Akademika, 76(3): 43-66.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2007). The beginning of neo-realist imaginings in Malaysian cinema: a critical appraisal of Malay modernity and representation of Malayness in Rahim Razali’s films. Asian Journal of Social Science, 35(4-5): 511-27.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2004). On Erma Fatima’s ‘The Last Malay Woman’ (Perempuan Melayu Terakhir): gendering discourses in reclaiming Malayness in the new Malaysian cinema. Spectator. Special Issue: Screening Southeast Asia 24(2): 27-38.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2003). The search for a “new cinema” in post-colonial Malaysia: the Films of U-Wei bin HajiSaari as counter-narrations of national identity. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 4(1): 145-54.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2002). The changing environment of the Penans in Baram, Sarawak. Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia (on-line journal), 2.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2000). Anthropologising ‘national culture’ in Malaysia: representing and contesting culture in the age of fragmentation. Suomen Antropologi, 25(2): 50-61.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2000). Regional development in rural Malaysia and the ‘tribal question’. Modern Asian Studies, 34(1): 99-137.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1999). Review article: Power and Politics: the Story of Malaysia’s Orang Asli by Roy Davis Linville Jumper; Indigenous Peoples and the State: Politics, Land and Ethnicity in the Malayan Peninsular and Borneo by Robert L. Winzeler, ed.. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, LXXII(2).
Zawawi Ibrahim (1999). Culture in the new reality: beyond economics the quality of life. Sarawak Museum Journal, Special Millennium Issue.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1998). Orang Asli identity in the nation-state: an exploratory analysis. Jurnal Undang-Undang [Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law], 28: 1-15.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1997). Orang Asli citizenry and nationhood: mediating the voices of the Bumiputera. ‘Other’ in Malaysia. Asian Studies Review, 21(1): 107-14.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1996). Mediating Identities in a Changing Malaysia. Special Issue, Tonan Ajia Kenkyu [South East Asian Studies], 34(3) (editor).
Zawawi Ibrahim & Michel Dion (1995). Joint ventures between Canadian companies and Malaysian business corporations: an ethical outlook. Journal of Oriental and African Studies, 7.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1985). Malay peasant consciousness: power versus people. Inside Asia, 5.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1985). Pemusnahan ekonomi semulajadi: satu sintesis teori’ [The destruction of natural economy: a theoretical synthesis], Sumber (Journal of the Faculty of Development Science, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) 1.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1985). Konsep pembangunan luar bandar: fahaman dan perlaksaaannya di Malaysia’ [The concept of development: its perspective and implementation in Malaysia], Ilmu Masyarakat (Journal of Malaysian Association of Social Science) 9.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1983). Rural women and ideology in the context of development in Malaysia. Kanita, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Zawawi Ibrahim & Haharil Talib (1983). Neither rebellions nor revolutions: everyday resistance of the Malay peasantry under capitalist domination. Ilmu Masyarakat (Journal of the Malaysian Association of Social Science), 2: 25-41.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1983). Tani, proletar Melayu dan amalan ideologi kelas’ [Malay Peasants, Proletarians and Class Ideological Practice] Kajian Malaysia, 1(1).
Zawawi Ibrahim (1983). Pembangunan masyarakat tani Malaysia: suatu analisis struktural’ [The development of peasant society in Malaysia: a structural analysis], Prisma, 7.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1983). Malay peasants and proletarian consciousness. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 15(4).
Zawawi Ibrahim (1983). Perspective towards investigating Malay peasant ideology and the bases of its production in contemporary Malaysia. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 13(2): 198-209.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1982). Perspectives on capitalist penetration and the reconstitution of the Malay peasantry. Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, 5: 60-105.
Book Chapters
Zawawi Ibrahim & Victor T. King (2019). Local and Transnational Anthropologies in Borneo. In Eric C. Thompson & Vineeta Sinha (Eds.), Southeast Asian Anthropologies: National Traditions and Transnational Practices, Chapter 7. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2017). Towards a Critical Alternative Scholarship on the Discourse of Representation, Identity and Multiculturalism in Sarawak. In Victor King, Zawawi Ibrahim & Nur Hasharina Hassan (Eds.), Borneo Studies in History, Society and Culture, Chapter 3. Singapore: Springer.
Zawawi Ibrahim & Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid (2017). Governance of Religious Diversity in Malaysia: Islam in a Secular State or Secularism in an Islamic State. In Anna Triandafyllidou, Tariq Modood (Eds.), More or Less Secularism? European Problems, Asian Lessons, Chapter 8. Ednburgh: University of Edinburgh Press.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2016). Anthropologising ‘Human insecurities’: Narrating the Subjugated Discourse of Indigenes on the Deterritorialised Landscapes of the Malaysian Nation State. In Paul Carnegie, Victor King & Zawawi Ibrahim (Eds.), Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia, Chapter 2. Singapore: Springer.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2013). The New Economic Policy and the identity Question of the Indigenous Peoples of Sabah and Sarawak. In Terence Gomez & Johan Saravanamuttu (Eds.). The New Economic Policy in Malaysia: Affirmative Action, Ethnic Inequalities and Social Justice. Petaling Jaya: SIRD; NUS & ISEAS: Singapore.
Zawawi Ibrahim & Gareth Richards (2012). Remembering Yasmin Ahmad: Social Criticism and Forgiveness. In Zawawi Ibrahim (Ed.), Social Science and Knowledge in a Globalising World. Bangi: PSSM & Petaling Jaya: SIRD.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2012). Introduction: Discoursing Social Science and Knowledge in a Globalising World. In Zawawi Ibrahim (Ed.), Social Science and Knowledge in a Globalising World. Petaling Jaya: SIRD / Bangi: PSSM.
Zawawi Ibrahim & NoorShah Mohd Salleh (2012). Indigenising Knowledge and Social Science Discourses in the Periphery: Decolonising Malayness and Malay Underdevelopment. In Zawawi Ibrahim (Ed.), Social Science and Knowledge in a Globalising World. Petaling Jaya: SIRD / Bangi: PSSM.
Zawawi Ibrahim & M. S. NoorShah (2012), Memperkenalkan Naratif Keterpeminggiran dan Jatidiri Penan: Satu Wacana Pasca-Modenis (Introducing Narrations on Penan Marginalisation and Identity: A Post-modernist Discourse). In Zawawi Ibrahim & M. S. NoorShah (Eds.), Masyarakat Penan dan Impian Pembangunan: Satu Himpunan Naratif Keterpeminggiran dan Jatidiri, Petaling Jaya: SIRD.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2010). Contesting “nation”: Renegotiating Identity and Multiculturalism in the New Malaysian Cinema. In Doobo Shim, Ariel Heryanto, Ubonrat Siriyuvasak (Eds.), Pop Culture Formations Across East Asia in the 21st Century: Hybridization or Asianisation. Seoul: Jimoundang.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2009). Representation, identity and multiculturalism in Sarawak: towards a critical alternative Scholarship. In Lim Teck Ghee, Alberto Gomes and Azly Rahman (Eds.), Multiethnic Malaysia: Past, Present and Future, Kuala Lumpur, Midas@UCSI and Petaling Jaya, SIRD, pp. 345-67.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2008). Discoursing representation, identity and multiculturalism in Sarawak. In Zawawi Ibrahim (Ed.), Representation, Identity and Multiculturalism in Sarawak, Kajang, Malaysian Social Science Association and Kuching, Dayak Cultural Foundation, pp. 1-19.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2008). Development and alternative representations: narrating a deterritorialised Penan landscape. In Zawawi Ibrahim (Ed.), Representation, Identity and Multiculturalism in Sarawak, Kajang, Malaysian Social Science Association and Kuching, Dayak Cultural Foundation, pp. 75-89.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2007). Memperkasakan wacana ilmiah dalam penelitian budaya popular lokal di era globalisasi’ [Empowering the Academic Discourse on Local Popular Culture Research in the Era of Globalisation], in Persidangan Seni Budaya dan Warisan: Pendidikan Seni Budaya & Warisan Di Abad 21: Teori dan Praktis, Kuala Lumpur, Akademi Seni Budaya dan Warisan Kebangsaan and Institute of Malay World and Civilisation (ATMA), Universiti Kebangsaaan Malaysia.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2005). The cultural context of Malaysian film policy: the new Malaysian cinema. In Lars Feilberg (Ed.), Seminar on Film Industries in Asia and Europe: A Platform for Experiences’ Sharing, Singapore: Asia–Europe Foundation.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2005). Return of the lazy native: explaining Malay/immigrant labour transition in Terengganu plantation society. In Riaz Hassan (Ed.), Local and Global Social Transformation in Southeast Asia. Essays in Honour of Professor Syed Hussein Alatas, Leiden, Brill
Zawawi Ibrahim (2004). Globalisation and national identity: managing ethnicity and cultural pluralism in Malaysia. In Yoichiro Sato (Ed.), Growth and Governance in Asia, Honolulu: Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2001). Pengantar’ [Introduction], in Wan Zawawi Ibrahim (Ed.), TUNTUT: Kumpulan Cerpen Orang Asli, Oleh Akiya, Kuala Lumpur, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1998). A Southeast Asian perspective on the environment: Epilogue. In Victor T. King (Ed.), Environmental Challenges in South-East Asia, London, Curzon Press.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1998). The making of a subaltern discourse in the Malaysian nation-state: new subjectivities and the poetics of Orang Asli dispossession and identity. In Zawawi Ibrahim (Ed.), Culture Contestations: Mediating Identities in a Changing Malaysian Society, London: ASEAN Academic Press.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1997). Mengdismistifikasikan imej dan mitos perburuhan Melayu di ladang’ [Demystifying the Image of Malay Plantation Labour], in Norazit Selat (Ed.), Ekonomi dan Politik Melayu, Kuala Lumpur, Akademi Pengajian Melayu, Universiti Malaya.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1996). Mengungkap Orang Asli sebagai subjek dalam wacana pembangunan’ [Articulating Orang Asli as subjects in the development discourse], in Zawawi Ibrahim (Ed.), Kami Bukan Anti-Pembangunan, Bangi, Malaysian Association of Social Science.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1995). An anthropological perspective. In Murugesu Pathmanathan and Robert Haas (Eds.), Political Culture: The Challenge of Modernization, Petaling Jaya, Friedrich-Naumann-Shiftung and Centre for Policy Sciences.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1990). Rural Malays and tobacco: a study of organisation, response and changing values. In Issues and Challenges for National Development, Kuala Lumpur, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1989). Ethnicity in Malaysia. In Kumar David and Santasilan Kadirgamar (Eds.), Ethnicity: Identity, Conflict, Crisis, Hong Kong, Arena Press.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1984). Investigating peasant consciousness in contemporary Malaysia. In Andrew Turton and Shigeharu Tanabe (Eds.), History and Consciousness in Southeast Asia (Senri Ethnological Studies 13) (pp. 135-157). Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1983). Pembangunan maasyarakat tani Melayu: satu analisis [The development of the Malay peasantry: an analysis]. In Peranan Sains Sosial Dalam Pembangunan Negara [The Role of Social Science in National Development], Kuala Lumpur: New Straits Times Press.
Working Papers
Zawawi Ibrahim (2015). ‘Disciplining Rock Music and Identity Contestations: Hybridisation and Islam and Musical genres in Contemporary Malaysian Popular Music’, UBD-IAS working paper series, No. 18.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2015). ‘From Island to Nation-state Formations and Developmentalism: Penan Story-telling as Narratives of ‘territorialising space’ and Reclaiming Stewardship’. UBD-IAS working paper series, No. 15.
Book Reviews
Zawawi Ibrahim (2018). Review of Norshahril Saat, The State, Ulama and Islam in Malaysia and Indonesia (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018). SITUATIONS, 11.2.
Zawawi Ibrahim (2017). Review of Andrew Willford, Tamils and the Haunting of Justice (University of Hawaii Press, 2014). American Anthropologist, December.
Zawawi Ibrahim (1999). Review of Roy Davis Linville Jumper, Power and Politics: the Story of Malaysia’s Orang Asli and Robert L. Winzeler (Ed.), Indigenous Peoples and the State: Politics, Land and Ethnicity in the Malayan Peninsular and Borneo. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, LXXII(2).
Zawawi Ibrahim (1997).Review of Christian Pelras, The Bugis. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, LXX(2).
Zawawi Ibrahim (1985). Review of Conner Bailey, The Sociology of Production in Rural Malay Society. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 58(248).
Creative Works
1999 Musical Score for Monuments of the Rainforest, a National Planetarium documentary by Datuk Prof. Mazlan (with Mohd Hafiz Askiak).
1999 The Sounds of the Crocker Range, a CD album: a compilation of the recordings of music and songs of the Crocker Range indigenous communities, submitted to the Postgraduate Committee, as part of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak Scientific Expedition to Crocker Range project (with Mohd Hafiz Askiak).
1996 Dayung, a CD/tape cassete musical album: a self-composition of poetic songs which in part incorporates ethnic musical elements and the voices of Orang Asli and MakYong. Released by BMG label.
Seminar/Conference Presentations
- 2011. Public Lecture Presenter:“Contesting Nation: Renegotiating Identity an Multiculturalism in the Mew Malaysian Cinema and its Mediation by the New Media”, at the Public Intellectuals Seminar Series 11: VOICES: Media , Politics and Identity in Contemporary South East Asia, School of Modern languages and Cultures, The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Malaysia, 3rd December 2011, at Pelita Hati Gallery of Contemporary Art, Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur.
- 2011. Moderator, Forum Dasar Industri Kreatif peringkat Kebangsaan , Negara Brunei Darussalam,28th-30th May 2012. Kementerian Kebudayaan.
- 2011. Presenter: “Bridging Social Science and Public Knowledge in ASEAN and the GMS: Indigenising the consumption of Anthropology among Marginalised ethnic minorities in Malaysia”, in the 4th National Congress of Sociology ‘Same Land, but Differenet World?: Future Research Agenda”, National research Council of Thailand in association with Chilalongkorn University, 18-19 June 2012. Miracle Grand Hotel Bangkok.
- 2012. Keynote speaker:”Indigenes and Contesting nation-state Bumiputera identity in East Malaysia”, at the 11th International Borneo Research Council Conference, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Brunei Darussalam, 25-17 June 2012.
- 2012. (i) Panel Speaker: ‘Special memorial session to late Khoo Kay Kim, prominent Malaysian Social Science scholar’ and launching of author’s book: Masyarakat Penan dan Impian Pembangunan; (ii) Chairperson/moderator: ‘Young Scholars panel’ & (iii) Contestations in Malaysian Domestic Politics and Society: Comparative and Single Case studies’; (iv) Launching of author’s book: Social Science and Knowledge in a Globalising World. The 8th International Malaysian Studies Conference (MSC8): Transition and Transformation: State, Market And Culture in a Period of Rapid Change’, 9th-11th July 2012, Universiti Kebangsaaan Malaysia.
- 2012. Chair/moderator: (i)“ASEAN and Human Rights” & (ii) “Configurations of Regionalism”, at the International Conference on International Conference (ICRD) 2012:” Conference Towards an Asean Economic Community (AEC)- prospects, Challenges and Practices and Paradoxes in Development. Governance and Human Security, 26-27th July 2012, ChiangMai, Thailand.
- 2012. Panel speaker: ‘Towards religious networking in ASEAN’, At the International Seminar on Religion and Peacebuilding Process in ASEAN, 17-19th September 2012, Sukosol Bangkok and Yala Islamic Unicversity, organized by Assalam Institute ,Yala Islamic Uiversity & Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand.
- 2012. Panel speaker(i) “Reshaping the public knowledge agenda in Thailand and Souhern Asia: Priorities and approaches” (ii) “Linking social justice to ASEAN Regionalism: Critical questions Towards a Regional Public Knowledge Agenda”. In Seminar: Confronting Unequal Worlds of development: Crisis of Public Knowledge, and the Transnational Social Science Agenda, Organised by National Research Council of Thailand Sociology Committee, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Chulalongkorn University & Regional Center for Sustainable Development, Chiang Mai University. 25th-26th October 2012, Chulalongkorn University,Bangkok, Thailand.
- 2012. Keynote speaker: 3rd International Conference- Urban Mobility: Its Impacts on Socio-Cultural and health Issues, 7-8 December 2012, Surabaya , Indonesia, Universiti Airlangga, Surabaya.
- 2012. Keynote speaker: International Conference on ‘Human Insecurities in SEAsia; Causes. Cost and Challenges, 9-13 Dec 2012, Universiti Brunei Darussalam; Insitute of Asian Studies & Dept of Sociology, National University of Singapore.
- 2013. Presenter: “Contesting Colonial and Postcolonial Knowledge Discourses: Malayness and Malay Underdevelopment”, International seminar “Current Research in Malay World”, APB (Academy of Brunei studies), FASS ( Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences), SOASCIS ( Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Centre for Islamic Studies) and Department of South East Asian studies, Frankfurt University. UBD Cancellory Hall,29th -31st March.
- 2013. Presenter: "From Island to Nation-state formations and developmentalism: Penan story-telling as narratives of ‘territorialising space’ and reclaiming stewardship”, paper presented to Conference “Politics of Storytelling in Island Imperial Formations”, June 10-11, 2013, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, The Southeast Asian Center and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle.
- 2013. Keynote speaker: 'Empowering Cultural heritage and Ethnic Diversity in ASEAN’, International Conference- The Inter-University Co-operation program: ASEAN.
- 2013. Community Knowledge networks for the Economy, Society, Culture, and Environmental Stability”, Chiang Rai Rajabhat University, Thailand & University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei, at Rizqun International Hotel Brunei 23-29th June 2013.
- 2013. Panel presenter "Exploring the Epistemological directions of Media technology and art practice in Malaysia", at Conference “Aliran Semasa (Rearview Forward) Confluence and Branching of Media technology in recent Malaysian art”, National Visual Art Gallery, 25th June. Hosted by MIA (Malaysian Institute of Art), MMU (Multimedia University) and US M ( Universti Sains Malaysia).
- 2013. Presenter: “Anthropological Fieldworking and Exploring ‘Indigenisation’ in the Periphery”, Panel 88: ‘Shifting perspectives: Theoretical Approaches , Area Studies and “The Disciplines” , The 7th EUROSEAS ( European Association for South East Asian studies) Conference, School of Social and Political sciences- ISCSP, Lisbon, Portugal, 2-5th July.
- 2014. Presenter: ‘Penan Story-telling and Contesting Developmentalism’ , 12thInternational Borneo Research Council Conference: ‘Diversity and Dynamism in Borneo’, 5-7th August 2014, School of Social Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah.
- 2014. Presenter: Exploring the forging of a ‘national’ anthropological discourse within the framework of transnational anthropology in Sarawak”, in Workshop on ‘Anthropologies of Southeast Asia”, co-ordinated by Eric Thompson, Sociology Dept,. National University of Singapore, 2nd -3rd October 2014.
- 2014. Presenter: Anthropological fieldworking and exploring ‘theoretical hybridisation’ in the periphery’, World SSH Net thinkshop Tokyo, hosted by Professor Shujiro Yazawa "Global social thought and academic practices in the social sciences’, October 4th 2014, Seijo University, Tokyo.
- 2014. Presenter: ‘Challenges of Postcolonial Nation-states in Southeast Asia’ in panel ‘Challenges of Emerging Democracies’, in Global and Regional Studies Conference ‘Twenty-First Century Globalisation: Alternative Futures and Goveranace”, Chilalongkorn University, Bangkok, October 14-16th.
- 2014. Facilitator for workshop on “People, Identity and Culture”, 1st Governing Council Meeting & Graduate Students Workshop’, BORNEO STUDIES NETWORK, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, 27th October-30th October . 2014 Presenter, ‘Capturing Oral History of Indigenous Communities through Story-telling in Anthropology’ In Symposium on Brunei Information Resource Collection.
- 2014. “Preserving the Knowledge of Cultural Heritage for Research” , UBD Library, Brunei.
- 2014. Presenter: 'DISCIPLINING ROCK MUSIC and IDENTITY CONTESTATIONS: Hybridisation and Islam in Contemporary Malaysian Popular Music', in ‘Culture and Commerce in the Asian Traditional, Modern and Contemporary Music Industries’ International Conference 12-13 December 2014, at Yonsei University (Seoul, Republic of Korea), Sponsored by Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context a cultural studies print and online journal.
- 2015. Presenter: ‘Rethinking Development Studies in Southeast Asia:State of Knowledge and Challenges’ conference, the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Chiang Mai University. 7 – 8 March.
- 2015. Presenter: “The Governance of Religious Diversity in Malaysia: Evolving and Emerging Contestations in a ‘Plural Society” in the International Symposium The Governance of Religious Diversity More or Less Secularism from Robert Schuman Center at the European University Institute.Florence, Italy. 10-12th June.
- 2015. Presenter: “Social Sciences and Sustainability in Malaysia and ASEAN: Some Critical Perspectives” in ‘Social and Sustainable Sciences in the ASEAN Community: A Regional Research Symposium and Academic Policy Dialogue’, Chulangkong University, Bangkok, Thailand. 19-21 August.
- 2015. Presenter: 'Sharing Reflections on Researching Popular Culture in Malaysia’, Postgraduate Lecture Series, Faculty of Film, Theater and Animation, UITM, Shah Alam, Puncak Perdana Campus. November 27th.
- 2015. Presenter: “New wave Malay film makers and the New Malaysian Cinema: a discourse on agency and counter-narrations of the nation”, The First Biennial Conference of the Consortium for SEAsian Studies in Asia , Dec 12-13, 2015 Kyoto International Conference Centre, Kyoto, Japan.
- 2016. Presenter: “RUPTURING NATION-STATE NARRATIVES FROM THE MARGINS: CELEBRATING THE LITERARY WORKS OF AKIYA, A CONTEMPORARY ORANG ASLI STORYTELLER, Keynote paper to be presented at the ICLLIC 2016 Fourth International Conference on Linguistics, Literature and Culture “Interactions between the Global and the Local: Challenges and Implications for the Fields of Linguistics, Literature and Culture “ The Eastin Hotel, Pulau Pinang, 28th-30th September.
- 2018. Presenter : “Underground /indies music in Brunei”, Popular Music Studies Workshop 12 – 14 January 2018 Muzium Negara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jointly Organized by SEAMEX Institute and Music Museum Malaysia.
- 2018. Presenter: "NADING RHAPSODY as a New Generation Indigenous Cultural Movement: Claiming Identity and Heritage Through Music and Theater Performance in a Nation-state and Global Society", at the International Tourism Conference & Exhibition on Borneo Heritage & Landscape, 16-17 January 2018 at Universiti Brunei Darussalam.
- 2018. Presenter: “DISCOURSING AKIYA’S HAMBA (SLAVE): An Indigenous Literary Counter-narration of Orang Asli Slavery in the Malay World” 4th April 2018 Institute of Asian studies Seminar Series.
- 2018. Presenter: “Korea Wave in Islamic SEAsia: Engaging with Islam in Brunei” at The Korean wave in Islamic SEAsian: Present and future strategies for Co existence’ Conference Gardens hotel, KL. Organised by Malaysia-Korean Research Centre, UM (King Sajong Institute, UKM & Korean Embassy, Malaysia, 28th April 2018.
- 2018. Presenter: “The Anthropology of remembering: Memory as complementary Ethnography”, at Conference on ‘Changing Research Styles, Methodologies and perspectives onseasia” .ILIA Building, UBD, organized by IAS & FASS, UBD, 30-31st July 2018.
- 2018. Presenter: "Rock and Metal Engaging Islam in the Malay World: Case Studies in Brunei and Malaysia" at the UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA - BRUNEI FORUM 2018 ‘KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIAL INNOVATION: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE”, NOVEMBER 7-8, 2018.
Examiner for PhD Dissertations
- Film and Television Studies, School of English, Communication and performance Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- The Institute of Ethnic studies (KITA), National University of Malaysia (UKM)
- School of Graduate Studies, University Putra Malaysia
EDITORIAL (Regional & Internal journals & Book series)
- International Editorial Advisory Board Kajian Malaysia (Journal of Malaysian Studies)(Scopus journal)
- International Editorial Board member for Suvannabhumi, (Korea-based Journal of Southeast Asian Studies).
- Local & International Advisory Board member- Jurnal SKRIN Malaysia (Faculty of Film, Theater & Animation , UiTM)
- Editorial Board Member, Southeast Asian Social Science Review, Journal of PSSM (The Association of Malaysian Social Sciences).
- Editorial board member of SITUATIONS: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context (Scopus-indexed journal).
- International Editorial Advisory Board Member of GEOGRAFIA -Malaysian journal of Society and Space (GMJSS).
- General Editor, Social Science Book Series, Malaysian Association of Social Sciences.
- General Editor Book series ‘Asian in Transition’ for UBD - Institute of Asian Studies & Springer Singapore.
External Referee for Journal Articles
- Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
- Kajian Malaysia
- Nation and Nationalism
- Asian Journal of Social Sciences
- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
- Ethnicities, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture
- Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
Journal Guest Editor
- Issue editor for Southeast Asian Studies (Tonan Ajia Kenkyu), (Journal for the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University), 34 (3), 1996,(Scopus indexed)
- Guest Editor for SITUATIIONS: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context (theme: ENGAGING DOMINANT DISCOURSES in ASIA)Vol.10, No2,2017 (Journal of Department of English, Yonsei University, South Korea) (Scopus indexed)