SIRD
Strategic Information and Research Development Center, better known as SIRD, is an independent scholarly publishing house in Malaysia. We cater predominantly to the needs of academics; and occasionally, to a wider audience of activists and policy-makers. We are working towards expanding links between Malaysian and regional/international publishers with the aim of making non-mainstream writers more accessible to a local/international audience and vice-versa.
SIRD prefers to publish original monographs and not edited volumes but we will definitely consider edited volumes on topics which are under-represented. We will also consider dissertations on Malaysia or Southeast Asia although they have to be of exceptional appeal to a wider audience.
We publish books on Malaysian and Southeast Asian Studies that include:
- Current Affairs
- Economics
- Gender Studies
- Social Science
- Politics and International Relations
- Memoirs
The ‘Allah’ Controversy and Other Essays on Malaysian Hypermodernity
Dr. Azly Rahman is one of Malaysia’s intellectual hopes for the future. Although he currently resides in the United States his heart and mind is still very much in Malaysia, as this volume testifies to. In this collection, he is able to delve deeply into Malaysian consciousness and skilfully peel away each cultural layer to uncover the Malaysian psyche in a way never understood before, exposing our accepted national narratives for what they really are. A true patriot with hope and optimism about the future, Dr. Azly offers a framework for...
read moreGB Gerakbudaya Cataloque 2013
GB Gerakbudaya catalogue 2013 is available now for download. View the cataloque for SIRD and Gerakbudaya books titles including titles from other publishers under our distribution. Click here to download cataloque 2013.
read moreAsk for No Bullshit, Get Some More!
No-nonsense writer Kee Thuan Chye is back exposing more bullshit in the Malaysian political realm. His pen is as sharp as ever as he slices the lies to bits. Najib Razak, Hishammuddin Hussein, Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, Mahathir Mohamad, Perkasa, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, the Election Commission, PTPTN, Chua Soi Lek, Utusan Malaysia, Pakatan Rakyat, even the police — hardly anyone is spared. To get a sense of the current political state, every Malaysian should read this book. Among its contents are: • Lament of a Stressed-out...
read moreSoutheast Asian Personalities of Chinese Decent
Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Decent A Biographical Dictionary About the book Volume I Volume I consist of 605 entries of Southeast Asian personalities of Chinese descent who have played significant roles in modern and contemporary Southeast Asia. The entries are arranged in alphabetical order by name. A total of 177 scholars and specialists in each of the ten Southeast Asian countries were commissioned to do the research and writing. Volume II Volume II consists of Indexes and Glossary for readers and researchers who would...
read moreDemocracy At Stake: Examining 16 By-election in Malaysia 2008-2011
Democracy at Stake? Draws together information from 16 by-elections that took place in Malaysia since the 12th General Elections in 2008, in an important assessment of the current health of Malaysia’s electoral system. The chapters have been written by journalists, activists and researchers. Through painstaking data collection and detailed analysis, this volume documents the by-election process and identifies some significant flaws in the electoral system. Key to parliamentary democracy is the question of legitimacy. If there are clean, fair...
read moreClean Sweep: The Global Triumph of Bersih 3.0
Every country has a seminal moment in its history that marks a turning point that changes everything, where the status quo is permanently shattered. The March 8, 2008 general election was one such moment, which forever changed the politics of our country. After half a century, a two party system had finally emerged. Bersih 3.0, on April 28, 2012, was another tipping point, except it wasn’t any system or institution that was irreversibly changed but the mindset of the people. For the first time in Malaysian history, people from all walks of...
read moreSocial Science and Knowledge in a Globalising World
This book examines the contested meanings of globalisation – moving beyond the conventional distinctions between the global and the local, the universal and the particular, the East and the West – to assess how social knowledge is being made and re-made along more critical trajectories. Other essays offer striking accounts of how significant actors have framed a range of worldviews: colonial cosmopolitans, organic intellectuals, state elites, indigenous communities, rural women, pop culture audiences, filmmakers, novelists, students of...
read moreWacana Baru Politik Malaysia: Perspektif Ruang Awam Budaya dan Institusi
Topik yang dibincang dan dianalisis terarah kepada kemunculan ‘politik baru’ yang berteraskan partisipasi dan tidak formal – landskap dan evolusi politik masyarakat sivil, politik budaya kumpulan seni, usaha mengembalikan fungsi ruang awam, politik budaya kumpulan seni, usaha mengembalikan fungsi ruang awam, politik hak asasi manusia, persoalan gender, dan membaca Habermas dalam konteks Malaysia – dan bagaimana unsure-unsur politik baru ini saling bertingkah dengan ‘politik lama’ yang formal dan procedural – politik Melayu di...
read moreKaleidoscope: The Memoirs of P.G. Lim
Tan Sri P.G. Lim has led a remarkable and eventful life at the heart of Malaysian affairs, as personal friend and confidante of all of independent Malaysia’s prime ministers. This memoir starts with vivid images of her childhood in Penang during the years after the First World War, leading to three years at Cambridge University in the 1930s. The years of the Japanese Occupation were spent with her family in Penang, and after the war she qualified for the Bar. She found herself first thrust into the limelight when in 1953 she undertook the...
read moreMembina Bangsa Malaysia
Hasil kolaborasi enam orang penulis akademik dan bukan akademik, buku ini merupakan suatu usaha untuk mengupas cabaran dan hala-tuju rakyat Malaysia dalam membina identiti sebagai sebuah bangsa dari pelbagai aspek kenegaraan. Aziz Bari memberi analisa kritikal tentang undang-undang, hak asasi manusia dan demokrasi; sementara kebebasan media dan maklumat serta potensi teknologi baharu dibicarakan oleh Ooi Heng. Aida Idris merumuskan perkembangan serta masa depan ekonomi, manakala Dinsman merenung perkembangan seni-budaya dari perspektif seorang...
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