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Overcoming Enmity Amongst The Workers? A Critical Examination Of The Mtuc's Stance On The Migrant Worker Question In Malaysia, Vicki D. Crinis
Overcoming Enmity Amongst The Workers? A Critical Examination Of The Mtuc's Stance On The Migrant Worker Question In Malaysia, Vicki D. Crinis
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Foreign migrant workers have been an integral part of the Malaysian economy since independence. Yet their position in the Malaysian workforce and in Malaysian society is most precarious. This paper examines public and union reactions to foreign migrant workers. It argues that government policies have resulted in uncertainty for both local and foreign workers and encouraged enmity between them. The paper concludes that Malaysian trade unions must take a more proactive stance on the migrant worker question.
Critical Injuries: Collaborative Indigenous Life Writing And The Ethics Of Criticism, Michael Jacklin
Critical Injuries: Collaborative Indigenous Life Writing And The Ethics Of Criticism, Michael Jacklin
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
The publication of collaborative Indigenous life writing places both the text and its production under public scrutiny. The same is true for the criticism of life writing. For each, publication has consequences. Taking as its starting point the recent critical concern for harm occasioned in life writing, this article argues that in the reading of collaborative Indigenous life writing, injury may eventuate from the commentary itself .... With particular regard to the collaborative texts Ingelba and the Five Black Matriarchs and [the Canadian work] Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman, this article argues that literary criticism can benefit …
Changing The Channel: What To Do With The Critical Abilities Of Law Students As Viewers?, Cassandra Sharp
Changing The Channel: What To Do With The Critical Abilities Of Law Students As Viewers?, Cassandra Sharp
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
It is now generally acknowledged within the cultural studies tradition that media can actually be consumed in a mediated sense - that is, oppositionally and not hegemonically. The viewer is no longer seen as powerless and 'vulnerable to the agencies of commerce and ideology', but rather as both selective and active. Law students, as viewers, are constantly interpreting, transforming and producing meaning in relation to the images of law presented to them. They are utilising this process to not only make sense of the law, but also to analyse and reflect on their personal ideas and values in light of …