Dark Spring: Essays on The Ideological Roots Of Malaysia’s GE-13

by Azly Rahman

“Azly Rahman’s Dark Spring is a book about evolution. He has strived to take us out of the shadows of Plato’s cave, into the freedom of an emancipated Malaysian society free of hegemony, repression, and suppression. However, as Azly has eluded, there is so much to do in Malaysia if the country is going to re-vegetate the barren lands that have been stripped for decades, and regenerate the Malaysian mind to face the emerging national and global challenges ahead.
Malaysia must move from a rent-seeking ‘feudal-cracy’ benefitting the few, to a modern and progressive society where sustainability and adaptation rather than corruption and the rape of wealth from the premise behind public policy and administration, by people who are truly altruistic and patriotic to the land we know as Malaysia.
This Malaysian reckoning is avant-garde, but at the same time it is proudly very traditional, deeply attached to rewritten historical narratives of shared heritage.
This is one of the most insightful contributions to the sociology of Malaysian society and should be read by all who have a stake in the country’s future. …”
-Murray Hunter
International Advisor to the 4th Media, Beijing, China
International Advisor to Diplomatic Insight, Islamabad, Pakistan
Associate Professor University Malaysia Perlis

356 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 29, 2014

About the author

Dr. Azly Rahman is an educator, academic, an international columnist, head of Social Studies department, and author of ten books, namely: Multiethnic Malaysia: Past, Present, Future (2009), Thesis on Cyberjaya: Hegemony and Utopianism in a Southeast Asian State (2012), The Allah Controversy and Other Essays on Malaysian Hypermodernity (2013), Dark Spring: Essays on the Ideological Roots of Malaysia's General Elections-13 (2013), Kalimah Allah Milik Siapa?: Renungan dan Nukilan Tentang Malaysia di Era Pancaroba (2014), Controlled Chaos: Essays on Mahathirism, Multimedia Super Corridor and Malaysia's 'New Politics' (2014), One Malaysia under God, Bipolar (2015), and From High Hopes to Shattered Dreams: Second Mahathirist Revolution (2020).

Born in Singapore, he grew up in a Malay village in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

He holds a doctorate in International Education Development from Columbia University in the City of New York, and Master's degrees in six areas: education, international affairs, peace studies communication, fiction, and non-fiction writing.

He is an international columnist for opinion portals in Malaysia, Greece&Finland, and the USA. He has written more than 400 analyses on Malaysian society, culture, politics, and international topics in Education, American Studies, Philosophy, and Anthropology.

He is a member of the Columbia University chapter of the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education and the Ohio Chapter of International Understanding Honor Society. He currently teaches courses in Global Politics, World History, Psychology, Economics, Cross-Cultural Studies, and Sustainability, in the United States. Twitter @azlyrahman.