Editorial - Penang Monthly (Page 13)

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...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

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...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

How will nationalism evolve?

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The biggest trick that the nation-state concept has pulled on modern man is the proposal that there is an essential line between the external and the internal...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

The Present comes before the Past

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A friend once desperately and exasperatedly wished to know what he had been in earlier lives.“Why?“ I asked him with half a mind.“Well,&rd...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Labour stripped down to bare essentials

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A cover on migrant workers raises a lot more questions than we can hope to answer in a monthly magazine. But it is a worthy attempt nonetheless. We really nee...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

All you hybrids, emerge from your closet

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Ethnocentrism is not the opposite of multiracialism. For some reason, we tend to suppose it to be so. The truth of the matter is, the contradistinction betwee...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

A defensive psyche is colonialism’s legacy

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It has become more and more palpable to scholars that the geography of a place, with the attendant peculiarities of terrain, climate, water supply, transport,...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

The age of cities is at hand

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Urbanisation is not a process that people in Penang think about.This is not strange, since British George Town came into being in 1786 for trading and strat...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Remember Penang

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You are holding the first issue of the revamped Penang Economic Monthly. For that reason alone, I would suggest that you seriously consider it a collector&rsquo...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

The Future of Work Will Include Clubbing

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IN THE FIRST decade or two following Covid-19, which parts of our daily life will go back to the way they were, and which will not?It’s anyone’s g...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

A Synergic Platform is Something Penang Almost Already Has to Build Back Better

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THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC has obliged us to rethink the personal, the present and the proximate.Shaken by the arresting of our ambitions, stirred by disruptions t...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Amused at Fort Cornwallis

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AT THE WATER’s edge, my soul sighs. This has something to do with the sound of waves. Things may seem serene, but I cannot forget the power the sea withho...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng