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Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
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RECONSTRUCTING A PROTO-PAHANG RIVER LEXICON: NOW AND IN THE FUTURE [PDF]
Asian and African StudiesProto Pahang Malay (PPM) faces significant challenges in the preservation and dissemination of its reconstructed lexical data. Much of the existing data remains locked within physical archives or behind paywalls, limiting accessibility for researchers ...
Muhammad Norsyafiq ZAIDI +2 more
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A study of Chinese loanwords (from South Fujian dialects) in the Malay and Indonesian languages [PDF]
Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, 1987 I was in South Fujian (Hokkian) to conduct preliminary research on South Fujian dialect loanwords in Malay and Indonesian languages in April and May 1985. I have additionally consulted eight Malay-Indo nesian dictionaries (Poerwadarminta 1976; Zain 1960; Arifin 1951; Harahap 1951; Chaer 1976; Iskandar 1970; Yang Kui Yee and Chan Meow Wah 1984 ...
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Family dynamics and death row: A dual‐theory approach
Family Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study investigates how the incarceration and death sentence of a loved one impact family dynamics in Malaysia, drawing on restorative justice and family systems theories. Background Despite the global movement toward abolishing the death penalty, Malaysia continues to impose discretionary death sentences for crimes such as ...
Reyhaneh Bagheri
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No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This contribution to the special issue examines a constrained version of citizenship in Indonesia's plantation zone. When corporations take hold of village land, residents experience devastating dispossession and a profound sense of injustice, yet they lack effective channels through which to claim rights as citizens or secure remedy from the ...
Tania Murray Li, Pujo Semedi
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Malay and Javanese loanwords in Malagasy, Tagalog and Siraya (Formosa)
Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, 1994 L'histoire culturelle et politique de l'Asie du sud-est montre l'importance des groupes ethniques Malais et Javanais. Cette situation est refletee par les emprunts linguistiques dans les langues indonesiennes, malaisiennes et dans quelques langues de la Philippine. En examinant les emprunts dans des langues tels le tagalog et le malgache, l'A.
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The Formosan Black Bear and Taiwanese Nationalism
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that situates nations and nationalism within colonial relations, this article examines nationalism in settler‐colonial Taiwan amid China's colonial claim to sovereignty. Drawing on interviews, conservation documents and popular representations, we show how the Formosan black bear became a national symbol of resistance ...
Yung‐Ying Chang, John Chung‐En Liu
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Linguistic Justice in World Englishes: A View From Cultural Appropriation
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article highlights the need to better clarify what we understand by linguistic justice. Failure to do so poses the danger that the concept not only remains something we may clamour for but is also one that we are unable or unwilling to recognize should we ever encounter it.
Lionel Wee
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Environmental Policy and Governance, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 1128-1146, August 2026.ABSTRACT While REDD+ prioritizes carbon sequestration, its narrow focus often overlooks forest‐health linkages critical to community well‐being. This paper examines the holistic model of Health in Harmony (HIH) and Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI), which integrates forest conservation with healthcare through radical listening—a decolonial community engagement
Angie Hsu +3 more
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More‐Than‐Debt: Affective Topologies of Buy‐Now‐Pay‐Later (BNPL) Platforms in Singapore
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract Buy‐now‐pay‐later (BNPL) platforms reconfigure indebtedness by operating as topological‐affective infrastructures that simultaneously modulate spatial relations and felt intensities. Drawing on diaries and interviews with BNPL users in Singapore, this paper reveals how platform mechanisms generate recursive movements across four ...
Gordon Kuo Siong Tan
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