<aside> <img src="/icons/swap-horizontally_yellow.svg" alt="/icons/swap-horizontally_yellow.svg" width="40px" /> A space for a transgressive reflexive moment of reflection. This is a space for my annotated bibliography → literature review → research proposal
A constant back and forth, the reflexivity of research is a never ending cycling of drawing connections, relating different ideas and then starting from scratch.
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Things I will be participating in!
Resources I am digesting
Study Guides — Radical in Progress
So why Malaysia? Lots of people ask me this question. Other than my obvious familial ties, the archipelagiac nation-state has a complicated histories of growing with diverse folks as well as migrating borders. To me, it sits somewhere in the future, but stuck, yearning for a neoliberal mode of islamic contemporary life. There are flecks of transnational histories embedded in the landscapes, food, cultural processions and urban life.
Curtis, Robert. ‘Malaysia and Indonesia’. New Left Review, no. I/28 (1 December 1964): 5–32.
and it is the perfect place to consider how maps come to be, how the cultural life begins to influence the urban landscape.
Historically, they have been used by centralized bodies, disseminating information to individuals — whether companies selling products or governments selling the idea of statehood. - from Colonial Cartography
In this context, writes historian Thongchai Winichakul, “a map anticipated spacial reality,” rather than the other way around; the map “was a model for, rather than a model of, what it purported to represent…it had become a real instrument to concretize projections on the earth’s surface. A map was now necessary for the new administrative mechanisms and for the troops to back up their claims.” - from Colonial Cartography