Abstract
This essay discusses social imaginaries and their associated anxieties and varying scales and provenances that overlap and intersect at the site of the “local.” Based on a long-term fieldwork at an urban poor Hindu-Indian “squatter” settlement situated on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), how local survival strategies have morphed alongside the stabilizing imperatives of nation-hood formation are examined. In the case of Malaysia, this has involved perpetuating the colonial categories of “race” and “religion” in tandem with appropriating the newer constructs of “globalization” and the drive to remake Kuala Lumpur into a “World Class City.”
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