<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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Read through the different sections of pondering here:

To reconsider the case study

Literature Review

Building Definitions

How-to

Diagrams I like

PhD hot tips

My PhD is investigates the influence of arts collectives in Malaysia. Bounded by the seeming need for growth and the often alluded “raw and unprocessed data” of the global emerging south, Malaysia sits in an uneven and uncomfortable intersection of complicit extractive theorising, and the inability to comprehend the raw energy… (to be completed!)

Things I will be participating in!

Mistakes were made

Resources I am digesting

Study Guides — Radical in Progress

Free, Fair & Alive

The urban influence of critical urban commoning by arts collectives in Malaysia

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.

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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.

Some quotes I’m pondering about:

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