Essays on Brunei Darussalam

Essays on Brunei Darussalam
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1992
Genre: Brunei
ISBN:

Volume commemorating the silver jubilee of the ascension to the throne of Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei.

The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back

The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back
Author: Grace V. S. Chin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2017-12-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811070652

This collection of essays examines how Southeast Asian women writers engage with the grand narratives of nationalism and the modern nation-state by exploring the representations of gender, identity and nation in the postcolonial literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Bringing to light the selected works of overlooked local women writers and providing new analyses of those produced by internationally-known women authors and artists, the essays situate regional literary developments within historicized geopolitical landscapes to offer incisive analyses and readings on how women and the feminine are imagined, represented, and positioned in relation to the Southeast Asian nation.The book, which features both cross-country comparative analyses and country-specific investigations, also considers the ideas of the nation and the state by investigating related ideologies, rhetoric, apparatuses, and discourses, and the ways in which they affect women’s bodies, subjectivities, and lived realities in both historical and contemporary Southeast Asian contexts. By considering how these literary expressions critique, contest, or are complicit in nationalist projects and state-mandated agendas, the collection contributes to the overall regional and comparative discourses on gender, identity and nation in Southeast Asian studies.

Historical Dictionary of Brunei Darussalam

Historical Dictionary of Brunei Darussalam
Author: Jatswan S. Sidhu
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2009-12-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0810870789

The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Brunei Darussalam substantially updates the first edition through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions and significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects.

Origins, History and Social Structure in Brunei Darussalam

Origins, History and Social Structure in Brunei Darussalam
Author: Victor T. King
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2020-10-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 100021480X

This wide-ranging book re-evaluates in detail the early history and historiography of Brunei Darussalam, the origins of the sultanate, its genealogical foundations and the structure and administration of Brunei society. Contributors draw on the seminal work of Donald E. Brown whose major monograph on the sultanate was published in 1970 and marked the beginnings of advanced sociological, anthropological and historical research on Brunei. Among the key issues addressed are status systems, titles and social stratification, Chinese sources for the study of Brunei, Malay oral and written histories and traditions, the symbolism, meanings and origins of coronation rituals, previously unknown sources for the study of Brunei history and the processes of incorporation of minority populations into the sultanate. Contributions by leading scholars of Brunei, Borneo and the wider Indonesian-Malay world, both from within Brunei Darussalam and beyond, address some central preoccupations which Brown raised and which have been the subject of continued debate in Austronesian and Southeast Asian studies. A novel contribution to the study of the history of Brunei Darussalam, this book will be of interest to scholars of Southeast Asian history, Asian history, Colonial and Imperial history and anthropology.

Historical Dictionary of Brunei Darussalam

Historical Dictionary of Brunei Darussalam
Author: Ranjit Singh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN:

The introduction to this volume examines the historical, political, economic, cultural, and social background of the state of Brunei, well known for its wealth and oil production. The greater part of the volume consists of a dictionary covering the people, places, organizations, and events of significance. Appendices list the genealogy of the Sultans of Brunei and present information on the political heads of the country. Twenty tables offer figures on the population, finance, exports, and imports. Includes a glossary, chronology, and ten maps. Bandw photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Islamic Civilisation and The Modern World

Islamic Civilisation and The Modern World
Author: Osman Bakar
Publisher: ubd
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2015-01-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9991712690

This book presents a thematic treatment of Islamic civilisation. Each of the fourteen chapters comprising this book treats at least one of the major themes that are characteristic of this youngest religiously-based civilisation of the world. The author’s thematic approach is primarily meant to promote a better appreciation of the living nature of Islamic civilisation. The book’s content provides ample evidence that Islamic civilisation is not merely a passing historical phenomenon. The various themes it discusses clearly demonstrate the continuing relevance of Islamic civilisation to the present and future humanity.

Historical Dictionary of Brunei Darussalam

Historical Dictionary of Brunei Darussalam
Author: Jatswan S. Sidhu
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2016-12-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442264594

After being a British protectorate for about 96 years since the 1888 Treaty of Protection, the modern state of Negara Brunei Darussalam (Abode of Peace) eventually obtained its independence from Great Britain on 1 January 1984. Run by a royal family that established a kingdom in Brunei some 650 years ago, the first sultan, Muhammad Shah (Alak Betatar) was installed in c.1363. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, the current ruler, is the 29th sultan of the lineage and is one of the richest men in the world. In spite of being called a mini-state, Brunei is well-known around the world because its population enjoys one of the highest gross national income per capita in the world, at an average of US$39,943 (2015) a year. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Brunei Darussalam contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Brunei Darussalam.

Government and Politics in Southeast Asia

Government and Politics in Southeast Asia
Author: N. John Funston
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2001
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789812301338

In this substantial and referenced study, nine leading scholars present from inside the history, society, geography, economy and governmental institutions of each of the 10 ASEAN countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam).

Continuity and Change in Brunei Darussalam

Continuity and Change in Brunei Darussalam
Author: Victor T. King
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429664257

This book analyses the processes of social and economic change in Brunei Darussalam. Drawing on recent studies undertaken by both locally based scholars and senior researchers from outside the state, the book explores the underlying strengths, characteristics, and uniqueness of Malay Islamic Monarchy in Brunei Darussalam in a historical context and examines these in an increasingly challenging regional and global environment. It considers events in Brunei’s recent history and current socio-cultural transformations, which give expression to the traumatic years of decolonisation in Southeast Asia. A wide range of issues focus on foreign, non-Bruneian narratives of Brunei as against insider or domestic accounts of the sultanate, the status of minority ethnic groups in Brunei and the concept of ‘Brunei society’, as well as changes in the character and composition of the famous ‘water village’, Kampong Ayer, as the cultural heartland of Brunei Malay culture and the socio-cultural and economic effects of the resettlement of substantial segments of the population from a ‘life on water’ to a ‘life on land’. A timely and very important study on Brunei Darussalam, the book will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, historians, geographers, and area studies specialists in Southeast Asian Studies and Asian Studies.

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Brunei

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Brunei
Author: Ooi Keat Gin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2022-07-29
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1000568644

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Brunei presents an overview of significant themes, issues, and challenges pertinent to Brunei Darussalam in the twenty-first century. Multidisciplinary in coverage, the contributions cover topics relating to philology, history, religion, language and literature, geography, international relations, economics, politics and sociocultural traditions. The Handbook is structured in eight parts: Foundations History Faith and Ethnicity Literature Language and Education Economics Material Culture Empowerment Chapters focus on the recent past and contemporary developments in this unique country which has remained a Malay Muslim sultanate, sustaining its religious and traditional heritage encapsulated in the national philosophy, Melayu Islam Beraja (MIB, Malay Islamic Monarchy). The MIB philosophy represents the sultanate’s three pillars of social, cultural, political and economic sustainability, and the contributors discuss this concept in relation to the notion of ‘Malay’ or ‘Malaydom’, the official religion of the nation-state, Islam and monarchy as the essential system of government. This Handbook is an invaluable reference work for students of Asian and Southeast Asian Studies and researchers interested in what is demographically the smallest country within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).