Category: Arts, Culture & Heritage

This article attempts to answer some of the questions relevant to the cause of Singapore’s secession and to project the future course of the Federation. It seems that the various societal diversities have already weakened the political unity of the Federation in view of the fact that Malaysia has neither sustained these functional interests nor… Continue reading The Federation of Malaysia: An Experiment In Nation-Building

The article discusses the novel “The Crocodile Fury,” by Beth Yahp. The novel has won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Sheaffer Pen Prize for First Fiction in 1993, and the New South Wales State Literary Awards. The author argues that there appears to be distinct echoes of occidental myths and metaphors that shape the discursive… Continue reading Occidental Echoes: Beth Yahp’s Ambivalent Malaya

The purpose of this article is to understand how a corporate museum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia works to create proleptic myths of nationhood to under-gird a broader state-centric project of nationalist-capitalist modernization. The article examines how these myths are expressed in the museum’s design plans and are manifested in the museum’s displays and spatial layout.… Continue reading A museum, the city, and a nation.

The intent of the present article is to provide a theoretical tool to be used in a university textbook titled An Introduction to the World’s Faith Traditions and Intercivilizational Dialogue. The theory, Ideological-Structural Analysis, allows for the systematic observation of what occurs within and among interlocutors in the process of intercivilizational dialogue.  Publication: 4th International… Continue reading Ideological-Structural Analysis Micro and Macro Theory of Intercivilizational Dialogue

This paper discusses several issues and challenges that confront the future of Malaysia’s historic cities in the new millennium, particularly in the light of rapid growth of new townships, depopulation of historic inner city areas, intensive development pressures as well as changing lifestyles and consumption patterns among city inhabitants and tourists. All these challenges are… Continue reading Challenges of Historic Cities in the New Millennium: Lessons from Malaysia

Digitisation of cultural heritage materials is not new in Malaysia. Different types of cultural heritage institutions have embarked on several digitisation projects. Various types of cultural heritage materials have been digitised and made publicly accessible. Author: Zuraidah Abd Manaf.  [Download]