Contacts
Contact email:amrita.malhi@anu.edu.au
Contact phone:+61 2 6125 9877
Location:ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Visiting Fellow
Amrita is a researcher, writer and adviser on the histories and politics of Muslim movements in Southeast Asia, especially in Malaysia and its broader interAsian contexts. She has projects on land politics, environmental conflict and the Holy War in Southeast Asia. Amrita is the Development Economics Advisor at the Australian Council for International Development, where she is responsible for the Council's climate change work.
Research interests
- Asian History
- Government And Politics Of Asia And The Pacific
- Studies Of Asian Society
Groups
- Researcher, Security
- Researcher, Biodiversity
- Researcher, Climate economics and policy
- Researcher, Water and flooding
- Researcher, Adaptation, livelihoods and development in Asia and the Pacific
- Malhi, A 2015, 'Like a Child with Two Parents: Race, Religion and Royalty on the Siam-Malaya Frontier,1895-1902', The Muslim World, vol. 105, no. 4, pp. 472-495.
- Malhi, A 2015, ''We Hope to Raise the Bendera Stambul': British Forward Movement and the Caliphate on the Malay Peninsula', in A.C.S. Peacock and Annabel Teh Gallop (ed.), From Anatolia to Aceh: Ottomans, Turks, and Southeast Asia, British Academy and Oxford University Press, London, pp. 221-239.
- Malhi, A 2011, 'Making spaces, making subjects: Land, enclosure and Islam in colonial Malaya', The Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 727-746.
- Malhi, A 2009, 'Sex, race and religion still political weapons in Malaysian politics', in Barbara Nelson & Andrew MacIntyre (ed.), Capturing the year 2009: Writings from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, pp. 204-207.
- Malhi, A 2003, 'The PAS-BN Conflict in the 1990s: Islam and Modernity', in V Hooker & N Othman (ed.), Malaysia: Islam, Society and Politics, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, pp. 236-265.