"They hate pigs, Chinese farmers ... everything!" Beastly Racialization in Multiethnic Malaysia

• Published in: Antipode Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 950 - 970
• Main Author: Neo, Harvey
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2012; Blackwell
• Subjects: Agricultural policy; animal geographies; Asia; beastly racialization; Bgi / Prodig; Elite; Ethnic groups; Ethnicity; Farmers; livestock; Livestock industry; Malaysia; Malaysia. Singapore; Minorities; multiethnicity; Pigs; Police; Racism; Southeast Asia; Malaysia; Pigs; Nationalism; Social construction; Relations between human and animal bodies; Livestock; Identity; Livestock farming; Racism

:  This paper details the construction of the pig and the pig industry in Malaysia. It argues that a pattern of “animal‐linked racialization” continually polices the boundary between the dominant, elite Malay‐Muslim hegemony and the comparatively less powerful Chinese pig farmers. Often subtle and i...