Views From Pulau Pinang

Views FromPulau Pinang

Author: Ahmad Murad Merican, Azeem Fazwan AhmadFarouk, Mohamed Ghouse Nasuruddi

Publisher: SIRD

ISBN: 9789672165170

Year: 2018

Weight: 0.200kg

Pages: 101pp

Price: RM25

Views from Pulau Pinang brings together the writings ofmembers of the Centre for Policy Research and International Studies (CenPRIS),Universiti Sains Malaysia, with the aim of providing critical and alternativeperspectives at the nexus between academia and policy discourse. Divided intothree parts, the book tackles issues of ‘Social Science, Development, andCountering Modern Orientalism’, ‘Othering Globalisation: Rights and the Imageof Islam’ and ‘Education, Nation-building, and Society.

Relating back to the history and intellectual traditions ofPulau Pinang it seeks to situate themes of knowledge production and socialscience research within a geographic space which has itself long been subjectto forces of orientalism, colonisation, modernisation, developmentalism,globalisation, nationalism and intellectual captivity, but also forces ofdecolonisation, anti-orientalism and localism.

Views from Pulau Pinang explores these forces in the contextof nation-building, development and education, calling for new approaches tourbanization and the relationship between the city and kampung, the universitysystem and the digital revolution, and the nation-state and governance.Moreover it highlights the importance of innovative social science research topolicy thinking for the future of Malaysia.