Revisiting gendered and ethnic familiarities in Malaysia through digital conversations: the Yang People podcast

Param, Sally Anne and Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah (2025) Revisiting gendered and ethnic familiarities in Malaysia through digital conversations: the Yang People podcast. In: Race, Religion, Royalty in Malaysia: Discursively Reproduced, Resisted, Renegotiated. Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse . Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 85-108. ISBN 978-3-031-94984-5

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Abstract

Podcasts have grown in popularity as a medium for digital storytelling in tandem with the burgeoning digital landscapecharacterised by the predominance of the Internet, social media platforms and streaming services. Malaysians have also beenexploring podcasts as a new means of having conversations, and being a multi-ethnic country, it is imperative to examine howpodcasts are shaping or changing discourses on ‘race’ and religion—two of the 3R that influence Malaysia’s society, politics, andeconomy, among others. This chapter discusses the use of podcasting as a new genre in the communicative platform amongmillennials in Malaysia. Specifically, it examines selected episodes from the podcast channel Yang People, created by a millennialMalay woman, to see how dominant narratives on race and religion are unpacked and challenged from a gendered perspective.These episodes make up the ‘ Perempuan Malaysia’ (Malaysian Women) series of the podcast, featuring conversations with millennialMalaysian women representing the nation’s major ethnic groups—Malay, Chinese and Indian—who discuss and compare notions offemininity, expectations of women and gendered/other stereotypes according to race and religion. We also investigate thesignificance of the creator’s subjectivity as an urban, millennial Malay woman mediating the conversations, as she attempts toarticulate her identity as a Malay woman in the twenty-first century. The analysis examines the content of the podcasts through theframework of identity politics, focusing on themes of race, religion and being a woman in multi-ethnic Malaysia.

Item Type:	Book Chapter
Additional Information:	4869/123043
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Malaysian women; millennials; podcasts; gender
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of English Language & Literature Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences
Depositing User:	Dr. Siti Nuraishah Ahmad
Date Deposited:	03 Sep 2025 16:58
Last Modified:	03 Sep 2025 17:07
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/123043

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