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When Policy Becomes Identity: Ethno-Religious Conservative Narratives on the Urban Renewal Act in Malaysian Social Media
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When Policy Becomes Identity: Ethno-Religious Conservative Narratives on the Urban Renewal Act in Malaysian Social Media

This special report investigates how ethno-religious conservative narratives attached themselves to Malaysia’s Urban Renewal Act (URA) debate on Facebook and Threads. Analysing more than 2,200 social media posts, the study finds that legitimate housing concerns over consent thresholds, compensation, and developer accountability were consistently reframed into narratives of Malay/Bumiputera territorial loss, political enemy-construction, and religious...

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