Staging Indigenous Heritage: Instrumentalisation Brokerage and Representation in Malaysia explores the politics of Indigenous cultural villages in Malaysia. Demonstrating that such villages are often beset with the politics of brokerage and representation. By critically examining the relationship between Indigenous tourism and development through the establishment of Indigenous cultural villages, our speaker shows that the opportunities for self-representation and self-determination can become entwined with the politics of brokerage and the contradictory dualism of culture. By challenging the simplistic conceptualisation of Indigenous communities as harmonious and unified wholes, Cai shows how Indigenous cultures are actively forged, struggled over, and negotiated in contemporary Malaysia. TE
