Meredith L. Weiss is associate professor of political science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is the author of Protest and Possibilities: Civil Society and Coalitions for Political Change in Malaysia, as well as numerous articles and book chapters; and coeditor of Between Protest and Passivity: Understanding Student Activism in Asia; Political Violence in South and Southeast Asia: Critical Perspectives; and Social Movements in Malaysia: From Moral Communities to NGOs. Her research focuses on issues of political mobilization and change, civil society, human rights, and collective identity in Southeast Asia.
"Because cohorts of university students come and go, their experiences and memories are readily lost to history. This loss is especially acute when the state seeks to constrain student political life, as it has in Malaysia. Meredith Weiss's book works against such generational amnesia and intellectual containment by analyzing the issues and struggles that have concerned Malaysia's student activists over the last fifty years. She examines the myriad forces that have made Malaysian campuses places of both political ferment and apathy. This work not only reclaims the history of student activism in Malaysia, it illuminates how university students perform a peculiar and vital social function internationally."-Thomas Williamson, Department of Anthropology, St. Olaf College
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