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Category Archives: Academic Writing

Solastalgia & Econostalgia

July 27, 2022by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

Anxious Notes at Gardens by the Bay: Searching in Hybrid Spaces “What am I here for?” (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14) In the lush tapestry of urban wealth—spanning the remotest of wilderness to […]

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Through Nostalgic Landscapes of Ruin

May 19, 2022by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

by Dk. Siti Zulaikha Pg Hj Ishak Ethnographic exercise submitted to NUS. Photos by author. On the choppy wooden boat, I squint at the scenery through the lens of my […]

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Negotiating God, Nature and Man: The Subak System of Paddy Fields in Bali

January 11, 2022by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

by Dk Siti Zulaikha Pg Hj Ishak The Interweaving Nature of Subak System Splashed across the likes of Lonely Planet booklets and Global Trekker articles, photographs of Bali feed tales […]

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Is the Cult of Memory Sufficient to Reconstruct Singapore’s National History?

January 10, 2022by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

by Dk Siti Zulaikha Pg Hj Ishak Reflecting Blackburn, K. (2013). Family Memories as Alternative Narratives to the State’s Construction of Singapore’s National History. Oral History in Southeast Asia: Memories […]

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Quickly – on Volcanic Cosmologies: Negotiating Fire, Faith, and Sovereignty

December 5, 2020by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

by Dk Siti Zulaikha Pg Hj Ishak. Writing training. Volcanoes are not merely geological formations; they are cosmopolitical sites where faith, governance, and ecology interweave. Across cultures, volcanoes have served […]

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From Jenglots to Island Bionetwork: Reflections of Academic Journey Thus Far

November 26, 2020by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

by Dk. Siti Zulaikha Pg Hj Ishak. There is an old ritual practiced by the children on my island that makes itself stubbornly known in the back of our minds […]

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Rivers and Lives under Seige: Scrutinising the Concrete Mountains

June 17, 2020by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

Damming of Himalayan River Basin and the Hegemonic Force of China: Water Grabbing through the Lens of Political Ecology by Dk. Siti Zulaikha Pg Hj Ishak for Monash, 2018. Water […]

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Seeking Gods through the Occasional Rap, Ethnoelectronics, Synths and Drum-loops

June 15, 2020by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

by Dk. Siti Zulaikha Pg Hj Ishak. Seeking Gods and Fulfilment through the Occasional Rap, Ethno-electronica, Synths and Drum-loops: Borrowing from Indigenous Worlds In 1971, French ethnomusicologist Hugo Zemp recorded […]

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