Editorial - Penang Monthly (Page 12)

Securing Public Space In The Post-Imperial Age

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A history of Public Space in post-colonial countries is long overdue. Such a narrative would be a powerful one indeed if it also adopts the fall of empires as...

May We Remain Tentative When Understanding Others

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Calling a spade a spade is easy enough when you live in a small monolingual and mono-cultural society – such societies are necessarily small. But try do...

Must We Stay Victims of Past Strategies?

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From August 2, 2011, the name of the research centre that produces this magazine is changed from SERI to Penang Institute.While there are several reasons fo...

To Leave is a Basic Right

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COVID-19 HAS killed over 1.5 million people worldwide, crippled huge segments of the economy and made fear for our individual safety a nagging concern. Masks an...

More Federalism, Less Centralism

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Malaysians are known to be multilingual as a rule, especially in urban or semi-urban areas where flows of cultures mingle.This mingling can take place in an...

The Search Engine Revolution

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I remember fidgeting for endless hours on the Internet back in the mid-1990s. To be honest, that was the reason why my studies took so long to complete.The...

Top Policy Priorities in the Wake of the Crisis

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AS COVID-19 steadily dismantles the Old Normal, our uncertainties get more and more focused on basics. No longer do we worry as much about that continually post...

Literally Peaking

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Indeed, becoming literate used to be one of the best career moves anyone could make. In ancient China for example, extended families would concentrate their r...

Bookstores and Our Weak Sense of Self-worth

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I shall tell you a secret. Whenever in Dublin, I actually prefer browsing through bookstores to bumming down at a public house for a piece of steak washed dow...

Gender Relations: A Wrestle or a Dance?

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SOCIOLOGY IS THE study of how a certain society functions, and central to that ambition is the study of how different genders relate to each other in that socie...

Turning isolating distance into social space

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Like people in most developing countries, Malaysians suffer automobiles not only as a necessary tool for modern living, but as a purported key driver of the e...

It’s been an exhilarating year

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The revamped PEM has now been around a year since the preview issue came out in September 2009. The response has been consistently good.As we expected, imme...