Gender Relations: A Wrestle or a Dance?
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SOCIOLOGY IS THE study of how a certain society functions, and central to that ambition is the study of how different genders relate to each other in that socie...
Turning isolating distance into social space
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Like people in most developing countries, Malaysians suffer automobiles not only as a necessary tool for modern living, but as a purported key driver of the e...
It’s been an exhilarating year
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The revamped PEM has now been around a year since the preview issue came out in September 2009. The response has been consistently good.As we expected, imme...
How will nationalism evolve?
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The biggest trick that the nation-state concept has pulled on modern man is the proposal that there is an essential line between the external and the internal...
The Present comes before the Past
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A friend once desperately and exasperatedly wished to know what he had been in earlier lives.“Why?“ I asked him with half a mind.“Well,&rd...
Labour stripped down to bare essentials
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A cover on migrant workers raises a lot more questions than we can hope to answer in a monthly magazine. But it is a worthy attempt nonetheless. We really nee...
All you hybrids, emerge from your closet
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Ethnocentrism is not the opposite of multiracialism. For some reason, we tend to suppose it to be so. The truth of the matter is, the contradistinction betwee...
A defensive psyche is colonialism’s legacy
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It has become more and more palpable to scholars that the geography of a place, with the attendant peculiarities of terrain, climate, water supply, transport,...
The age of cities is at hand
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Urbanisation is not a process that people in Penang think about.This is not strange, since British George Town came into being in 1786 for trading and strat...
Remember Penang
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The revamped Penang Economic Monthly marks the beginning of reawakening Penang's potential. It’s about remembering its past, rethinking its future, and rebuilding a vibrant, innovative Penang.
The Future of Work Will Include Clubbing
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IN THE FIRST decade or two following Covid-19, which parts of our daily life will go back to the way they were, and which will not?It’s anyone’s g...
A Synergic Platform is Something Penang Almost Already Has to Build Back Better
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THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC has obliged us to rethink the personal, the present and the proximate.Shaken by the arresting of our ambitions, stirred by disruptions t...