Weekly Picks: Malaysia (28 Jan –3 Feb 2019)

about 70 months ago (01/28/2019)

Weekly Picks: Malaysia (28 Jan –3 Feb 2019) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do January 28, 2019 CounterCartographies Reading — Escobar’s Encountering Development , at Malaysia Design Archive, An initiative to understand visual culture in relation to the politics of space, this monthly group tackles Chapter 2 of Arturo Escobar’s ‘ Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World ’. The chapter is titled ‘ The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development. ’ Questions the group tackles this month includes the purpose of development, how poverty is defined, and the ways development intertwines with race, culture, gender, nation, and class in Malaysia.

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