Abdul Rahman, S., Ertürk, I. and Froud, J. (2020) Financial citizenship and nation-building in Malaysia: elites' and citizens' perspectives. Journal of Economic Geography, 20 (1). pp. 225-248. ISSN 1468-2702
Abstract
This article presents a postcolonial analysis of financial citizenship (FC) programmes in Malaysia. Drawing on secondary data and on interviews with elites and citizen investors, the paper explores the spatial and historically specific nature of financialisation in a postcolonial context. Specifically, the paper draws out the significance of FC as part of broader nation building objectives in Malaysia from an elite perspective, while also observing the reluctance of citizen investors who are engaging with the equity market to support the formal objectives of the policy. In doing so, it provides an example of the financialisation of everyday life in a distinctive and complex emerging economy context. Moreover, the paper explores these processes from both elite and citizen perspectives, allowing these layered relations within FC to be analysed. The article, therefore, contributes to the financialisation literature by bringing new understandings of elite–citizen relations in postcolonial nation-building strategies.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Author(s). This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Economic Geography. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Financialisation; financial citizenship; stock market; Malaysia; postcolonial |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2020 12:19 |
Last Modified: | 07 Dec 2021 16:54 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/jeg/lbz006 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:156405 |