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In Unsettling Absences, Eric Thompson argues that urbanism is a cultural force unbound from the city and is a pervasive presence in the Malaysian countryside. Transported to rural communities, urbanism has motivated migration, transformed the social lives of rural inhabitants, and created a deep ambivalence about personal identity. This has left rural Malays feeling out of place in both the city and the village. Kuala Lumpur epitomises modernity, but rural Malays who move there are often marginalised in squatter settlements on its periphery. The kampung symbolises home and the locus of Malay identity, but schoolbooks and television have projected urbanism that marks rural life as backwards a...
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Malaysian artist Latiff Mohidin’s life work has been discussed extensively within national and, to some extent, regional frameworks, yet his contribution to global modernism remains understudied. This publication seeks to address this gap, positioning the artist within Berlin art circles of the 1960s as well as the cultural, political and art historical milieus of Southeast Asia. Besides presenting in full colour and rich detail 81 works from Latiff Mohidin’s critically acclaimed Pago Pago series, it also features an anthology of texts that discuss the artist’s painterly and poetic practice. These are further accompanied by an extensive interview with Latiff Mohidin that took place over a two-year period.
Papers presented at a workshop called: Information Revolution in Asia-Pacific sponsored by Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre, Institute of Culture and Communication, East-West Center, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Biography of A. Samad Said, a Malay author.
Perhubungan media merupakan aspek yang penting dalam strategi komunikasi sesebuah organisasi. Dengan demikian, amat kritikal bagi pengamal perhubungan awam untuk membina hubungan yang berkesan dengan personaliti media. Penulisan ini berfokus pada amalan perhubungan media di Malaysia dengan memberi tumpuan kepada empat isu iaitu polisi organisasi korporat, amalan etika kewartawanan, persepsi editor dan bahan perhubungan media. Kaedah analisis kandungan digunakan untuk menganalisis bahan-bahan siaran media yang diterima oleh dua organisasi media iaitu sebuah akhbar harian dan sebuah stesen televisyen. Selain itu, temubual mendalam dilaksanakan untuk menganalisis pendapat para editor akhbar har...
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