Beyond hearts and minds: a subaltern re-evaluation of the binary of coercion and soft power during the Malayan emergency, 1948–1960

• Main Author: Lau, Jun Hong
• Other Authors: Faizah Binte Zakaria
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::History::Asia::Malaysia; Humanities::History::Historiography
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165350
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This project seeks to challenge the prevailing colonial perspective that views the Malayan Emergency through a binary between "coercion and enforcement" and "hearts and minds." Instead, it suggests a more nuanced approach that acknowledges the constant coexistence of coercive and...