Islam as the state ideology: exploring from Gramsci’s notion of power, culture and ideology

The paper aims at establishing relationships between culture, power, and the state ideology. The reading of Malaysian politics through Gramsci’s conceptual framework provides a tentative interpretation on the state’s exercise of power with popular consent, the structure of power, relation between th...

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Main Author:	Wan Norshira Wan Mohd Ghazali
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13185/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13185/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13185/1/31957-98944-1-SM.pdf

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spelling	ukm-131852019-07-21T12:55:30Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13185/ Islam as the state ideology: exploring from Gramsci’s notion of power, culture and ideology Wan Norshira Wan Mohd Ghazali, The paper aims at establishing relationships between culture, power, and the state ideology. The reading of Malaysian politics through Gramsci’s conceptual framework provides a tentative interpretation on the state’s exercise of power with popular consent, the structure of power, relation between the state and subaltern groups. Reading through the concept of hegemony, the paper explores the construction and enactment of Islam by the power of the state. It highlights how Islam came to be constructed as the state ideology and how the state establishes and maintains the hegemonic position. On this basis, Islam has been used to produce a specific set of structures in Malaysia to gain national-popular support. The state-society relations will be explored through Gramsci’s notion of civil society to illustrate the possible resistance to the state power. The paper suggests that civil society as a field of contestation in Malaysia. The 14th General Election result has demonstrated that ideology could be contested, hence challenging the state’s domination or coercive power. In conclusion, this paper has demonstrated the previous state’s struggle with civil actors in dominating and maintaining its popular ideology. It could be seen how actors of nonconformist voices in civil society have mobilised themselves into organised groups and institutions to undermine the state hegemony thus assisting the change of the ruling power in the GE14. After 61 years of Independence, Malaysia is finally celebrated the new ruling party. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13185/1/31957-98944-1-SM.pdf Wan Norshira Wan Mohd Ghazali, (2019) Islam as the state ideology: exploring from Gramsci’s notion of power, culture and ideology. Jurnal Komunikasi ; Malaysian Journal of Communication, 35 (1). pp. 338-352. ISSN 0128-1496 http://ejournal.ukm.my/mjc/issue/view/1165
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description	The paper aims at establishing relationships between culture, power, and the state ideology. The reading of Malaysian politics through Gramsci’s conceptual framework provides a tentative interpretation on the state’s exercise of power with popular consent, the structure of power, relation between the state and subaltern groups. Reading through the concept of hegemony, the paper explores the construction and enactment of Islam by the power of the state. It highlights how Islam came to be constructed as the state ideology and how the state establishes and maintains the hegemonic position. On this basis, Islam has been used to produce a specific set of structures in Malaysia to gain national-popular support. The state-society relations will be explored through Gramsci’s notion of civil society to illustrate the possible resistance to the state power. The paper suggests that civil society as a field of contestation in Malaysia. The 14th General Election result has demonstrated that ideology could be contested, hence challenging the state’s domination or coercive power. In conclusion, this paper has demonstrated the previous state’s struggle with civil actors in dominating and maintaining its popular ideology. It could be seen how actors of nonconformist voices in civil society have mobilised themselves into organised groups and institutions to undermine the state hegemony thus assisting the change of the ruling power in the GE14. After 61 years of Independence, Malaysia is finally celebrated the new ruling party.
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author	Wan Norshira Wan Mohd Ghazali,
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author_facet	Wan Norshira Wan Mohd Ghazali,
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title	Islam as the state ideology: exploring from Gramsci’s notion of power, culture and ideology
title_short	Islam as the state ideology: exploring from Gramsci’s notion of power, culture and ideology
title_full	Islam as the state ideology: exploring from Gramsci’s notion of power, culture and ideology
title_fullStr	Islam as the state ideology: exploring from Gramsci’s notion of power, culture and ideology
title_full_unstemmed	Islam as the state ideology: exploring from Gramsci’s notion of power, culture and ideology
title_sort	islam as the state ideology: exploring from gramsci’s notion of power, culture and ideology
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2019
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13185/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13185/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13185/1/31957-98944-1-SM.pdf
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Islam as the state ideology: exploring from Gramsci’s notion of power, culture and ideology

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