Part 1: Race and Rambutans

There is a provocative observation floating around the Internet that “Malaysia is a place where everyone exists in a state of racist harmony.” A less cynical way of putting this is that while daily interactions between different migrant groups are both complex and...

Mapping Grave Diggers and Fowl Thieves

Okay, I’m not actually mapping grave diggers, nor am I mapping fowl thieves. Granted, I’ve taken huge poetic license in the naming of this map, the title never the less captures something of genealogical uncertainty, ambivalence but also creativity that...

Pasukan Pulau Pinang

The Penang team playing tourists at the Ernest Zacharevic’s mural ‘Children on Bicycle’ on Armenian Street, painted for Georgetown Festival 2012. Left to right: Raisa Kamila, Juno Ooi, Napong Rugkhapan, Lawrence Chua and Simon Soon. with Sam I-Shan...